
Jon Finch
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971). Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
Known for

Casualty
1986

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Sherlock Holmes
1984

The Bill
1984

Kingdom of Heaven
2005

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969

Hammer House of Horror
1980

Curro Jiménez
1976

The New Avengers
1976

Death on the Nile
1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978

The World of Hammer
1994

The Play on One
1988

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994

Maigret
1992

Frenzy
1972

The Martian Chronicles
1980

Love at First Sight
1992

The Vampire Lovers
1970

Tom Grattan's War
1968

South of the Border
1988

Counterstrike
1969

Peter and Paul
1981