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Jon Finch
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1942 – c. 28 December 2012) was an English stage and film actor who became well known for his Shakespearean roles. Most notably, he starred in films for directors Roman Polanski (Macbeth, 1971) and Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972).
Finch was born on 2 March 1942, in Caterham in Surrey, the son of a merchant banker.
Between 1950 and 1960, Finch was educated at Caterham School. Upon leaving school he refused admission to the London School of Economics.
After performing in amateur theater companies and singing in a folk ensemble, Finch performed his National Service in the Parachute Regiment and remained as a member of the SAS Reserve Regiment, training on weekends and several nights a week. He resigned from the Army as his acting commitments became more demanding, and said he was relieved to not have to serve in Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation (1963–66).
He appeared on stage in From the Hill in 1963. He got a job as assistant stage manager in Pembroke Theatre in the Round.
In the early phase of his career, Finch appeared in episodes of Crossroads, The Fellows, ITV Playhouse, City '68, Tom Grattan's War, ITV Sunday Night Theatre and Thirty-Minute Theatre. He was in a number of episodes of Z-Cars and played Sir John Mortimer in a BBC play about Mary, Queen of Scots in 1969.
Finch played the lead character, Simon King, in the BBC science fiction series Counterstrike (1969), one of the last BBC drama series made in black and white. One of the ten episodes made was never screened, owing to the broadcast in its place of a documentary about the Kray Twins when they were jailed.
He also appeared in two Hammer Films productions, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970).[citation needed] He had a small role in the ground-breaking 1971 drama Sunday Bloody Sunday, which starred the unrelated Peter Finch. He said his career at this stage "wasn't spectacular but it was interesting."
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Jon Finch
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1942 – c. 28 December 2012) was an English stage and film actor who became well known for his Shakespearean roles. Most notably, he starred in films for directors Roman Polanski (Macbeth, 1971) and Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972).
Finch was born on 2 March 1942, in Caterham in Surrey, the son of a merchant banker.
Between 1950 and 1960, Finch was educated at Caterham School. Upon leaving school he refused admission to the London School of Economics.
After performing in amateur theater companies and singing in a folk ensemble, Finch performed his National Service in the Parachute Regiment and remained as a member of the SAS Reserve Regiment, training on weekends and several nights a week. He resigned from the Army as his acting commitments became more demanding, and said he was relieved to not have to serve in Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation (1963–66).
He appeared on stage in From the Hill in 1963. He got a job as assistant stage manager in Pembroke Theatre in the Round.
In the early phase of his career, Finch appeared in episodes of Crossroads, The Fellows, ITV Playhouse, City '68, Tom Grattan's War, ITV Sunday Night Theatre and Thirty-Minute Theatre. He was in a number of episodes of Z-Cars and played Sir John Mortimer in a BBC play about Mary, Queen of Scots in 1969.
Finch played the lead character, Simon King, in the BBC science fiction series Counterstrike (1969), one of the last BBC drama series made in black and white. One of the ten episodes made was never screened, owing to the broadcast in its place of a documentary about the Kray Twins when they were jailed.
He also appeared in two Hammer Films productions, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970).[citation needed] He had a small role in the ground-breaking 1971 drama Sunday Bloody Sunday, which starred the unrelated Peter Finch. He said his career at this stage "wasn't spectacular but it was interesting."