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Peter Finch
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was an English and Australian actor.
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entertainment · English and Australian actor (1916–1977) · stage actor · film actor · actor · screenwriter · writer · film director · also Peter Finch, Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch, Frederick Ingle Finch, Frederick Ingle-Finch, Finch
Born 28 September 1916 · Died 14 January 1977 · Q294454
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2026· 2 entries
“no film award ... ever gave him the sense of fulfillment comparable to seeing a poem he”
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1980· 1 entry
American author Elaine Dundy published a biography of Finch titled Finch, Bloody Finch: A Biography of Peter Finch
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Network (1977).
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Died 1977-01-14.
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1959· 2 entries
After she discovered his affair with actress Vivien Leigh in California
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Released in 1961), an attempt to repeat the success of The Nun's Story, with Angie Dickinson
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1956· 1 entry
And won Finch a BAFTA for Best Actor
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1954· 1 entry
The Australian journalist and author George Johnston wrote a well-researched series of biographical articles on Finch, his life, and his work, which appeared in the Sydney Sun-Herald on four consecutive Sundays, which we
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1952· 1 entry
Finch performed at St James's Theatre, King Street, London, in Sir Laurence Olivier's and Gilbert Miller's The Happy Time a comedy by Samuel Taylor
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1948· 1 entry
And continued on and off for several years, ultimately ending because of Leigh's deteriorating mental condition
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1946· 1 entry
Finch co-founded the Mercury Theatre Company, which put on a number of productions in Sydney over the next few years (initially in the diminutive St James' Hall), as well as running a theatre school
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1945· 1 entry
Toured bases and hospitals with two Terence Rattigan plays he directed, French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines
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1943· 1 entry
Married Romanian-born French ballerina Tamara Tchinarova; they worked together on a number of films
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1926· 1 entry
Was sent to Australia to live with his great-uncle Edward Herbert Finch at Greenwich Point in Sydney
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1925· 1 entry
Laura took Peter with her to Adyar, a theosophical community near Madras, India, for a number of months, and the young boy lived for a time in a Buddhist monastery
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1920· 1 entry
On the grounds of her adultery with Campbell
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1916· 2 entries
Born 1916-09-28.
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Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was born in South Kensington, London, on 28 September 1916 to Alicia Gladys (née Fisher), the daughter of a Kent barrister.
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1912· 1 entry
And served during the First World War with the Royal Army Ordnance Depot and the Royal Field Artillery
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