"I never doubted that Frank was really dead" [NOBL]
Actor Frank Finlay has passed away at the age of 89.
Finlay portrayed a wide variety of roles across the stage, television and film, from Jean Valjean in the TV miniseries Les Miserables
In 1965, he starred as Iago opposite the legendary Laurence Olivier in Othello
Frank Finlay as Inspector Lestrade in A Study in Terror (1965) |
But this was not to be his last association with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation. In 1970, Finlay co-starred with Sean Connery in The Molly Maguires
Then in 1979, Finlay was tapped to return to the role of Inspector Lestrade in Murder By Decree
But we're not done with the Sherlockian / Doylean associations, oh no.
In 1992, Finlay took on the person of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the television movie The Other Side, of which we have no working knowledge. If we had to guess, we'd say it was a look at Doyle's commitment to spiritualism and how that flew in the face of his scientific creation, Sherlock Holmes. Incidentally, Holmes made an appearance in The Other Side, played by Richard E. Grant, who played Mycroft Holmes in the 2002 thriller Sherlock : A Case of Evil
Finally, in 1994, the Granada producers tapped Finlay to play Professor Coram in an adaptation of "The Golden Pince-Nez
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Left to right: Charles Gray (Mycroft Holmes), Frank Finlay (Professor Coram), Nigel Planer (Inspector Hopkins), Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes). Courtesy of The Falk Archive-KFA. |
One other minor association: Finlay read as Conan Doyle in the BBC Radio production of The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Special thanks to Peter Blau and Roger Johnson for the connections.
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