Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/27/1916
Place of Birth
South Kensington, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch
Peter Finch
Biography
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the BAFTA, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger.
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Known For
Operation Amsterdam
as Jan Smit
Kidnapped
as Alan Breck Stewart
Murderers' Row
as British agent (uncredited)
The Shiralee
as Macauley
Eureka Stockade
as Humffray
The Abdication
as Azzolino
Father Brown
as Gustave Flambeau
The Flight of the Phoenix
as Captain Harris
The Nun's Story
as Dr. Fortunati
Network
as Howard Beale
The Rats of Tobruk
as Peter Linton
The Battle of the River Plate
as Captain Langsdorff, "Admiral Graf Spee"
Judith
as Aaron Stein
The Red Tent
as Umberto Nobile
The Pumpkin Eater
as Jake Armitage
Raid on Entebbe
as Yitzhak Rabin
First Men in the Moon
as Bailiff's Man (uncredited)
Far from the Madding Crowd
as William Boldwood
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Oscar
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
as Sheriff of Nottingham