Peter Finch
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1822 |
| Birthday | 1916-09-28 |
| Place of Birth | South Kensington, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch, |
1966
10:30 P.M. Summer
5.276/29
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
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10:30 P.M. Summer
1965
The Flight of the Phoenix
7.231/385
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up...
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The Flight of the Phoenix
1967
Far from the Madding Crowd
6.9/107
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely diverg...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
1976
Network
7.794/2085
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during...
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Network
1969
The Red Tent
6.051/73
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
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The Red Tent
1976
Raid on Entebbe
6/59
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane la...
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Raid on Entebbe
2006
The Making of 'Network'
0/0
An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."
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The Making of 'Network'
1959
The Nun's Story
7.21/205
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World W...
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The Nun's Story
1952
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
6.196/74
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by...
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1980
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
4/1
A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1960
Kidnapped
6.547/32
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder,...
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Kidnapped
1954
Elephant Walk
5.9/41
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Tay...
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Elephant Walk
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
6.549/142
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1959
Operation Amsterdam
6.1/16
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond mer...
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Operation Amsterdam
1964
Girl with Green Eyes
6.719/32
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
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Girl with Green Eyes
1956
The Battle of the River Plate
6.397/73
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Is...
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The Battle of the River Plate
1949
Eureka Stockade
6/13
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
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Eureka Stockade
1944
The Rats of Tobruk
6.417/6
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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The Rats of Tobruk
1964
The Pumpkin Eater
6.7/53
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...
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The Pumpkin Eater
1961
The Sins of Rachel Cade
6.375/8
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
1955
The Dark Avenger
6.4/11
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect t...
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The Dark Avenger
1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare
6.048/31
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
1956
A Town Like Alice
6.414/35
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...
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A Town Like Alice
1973
Lost Horizon
5.4/41
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon...
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Lost Horizon
1954
Father Brown
6.5/31
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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Father Brown
1962
I Thank a Fool
6.143/7
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
2001
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
7.286/14
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
1955
Simon and Laura
5.857/14
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Simon and Laura
1953
The Heart of the Matter
6.727/11
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
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The Heart of the Matter
1963
In the Cool of the Day
5.8/12
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who...
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In the Cool of the Day
1961
No Love for Johnnie
6.667/9
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble...
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No Love for Johnnie
1966
Judith
4.8/10
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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Judith
1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
6.375/32
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with th...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1955
Josephine and Men
6.4/5
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
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Josephine and Men
1957
The Shiralee
5.088/17
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and...
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The Shiralee
1954
Make Me an Offer!
7.4/5
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of othe...
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Make Me an Offer!
1950
The Miniver Story
6.25/14
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing...
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The Miniver Story
1955
Passage Home
5.929/7
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passe...
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Passage Home
1950
The Wooden Horse
6.8/30
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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The Wooden Horse
1953
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
5/3
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together...
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
1966
Murderers' Row
5.7/46
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mi...
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Murderers' Row
1957
Windom's Way
5.273/11
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local r...
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Windom's Way
1957
Robbery Under Arms
5.2/9
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief...
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Robbery Under Arms
1964
First Men in the Moon
6.3/147
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts di...
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First Men in the Moon
1939
Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
7/2
A down-and-out clerk happens upon a bag of money. Unknown to him, the money is all counterfeit, forcing the innocent man to become involved with gangs...
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Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
1973
England Made Me
6.1/8
A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi...
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England Made Me
1973
Bequest to the Nation
6.5/4
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Bequest to the Nation
1935
The Magic Shoes
0/0
Short lost Australian film based on the story of Cinderella
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The Magic Shoes
1974
The Abdication
5.6/12
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
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The Abdication
1972
Something to Hide
5.833/6
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and m...
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Something to Hide
1941
The Power and the Glory
9/1
The Power and the Glory is a 1941 Australian war film about a Czech scientist who escapes from the Nazis to live in Australia.
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The Power and the Glory
1946
A Son Is Born
7/1
This family melodrama, a tale of desertion, vengeful seduction, coincidental meeting and catharsis, spans more than two decades from 1920 to World War...
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A Son Is Born
1946
Indonesia Calling
6.111/9
Filmed secretly in Sydney by Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens, this short records the solidarity of Indonesian seamen, Australian trade unionists, and...
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Indonesia Calling
1938
Dad and Dave Come to Town
6/4
Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey...
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Dad and Dave Come to Town
1944
Jungle Patrol
7/1
This black and white film was made by the Australian government to show Australia's contribution to the New Guinea campaign, for which they thought th...
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Jungle Patrol
1949
Train of Events
6.346/13
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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Train of Events
1943
These Stars Are Mine
0/0
George Reynolds, recently discharged from the army, tells his father of his plans to marry and relax. Reynolds Snr tells his son that if Australia is...
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These Stars Are Mine
1969
The Greatest Mother of 'em All
0/0
Stage mother Dolly Murdock uses the attractiveness of her teenage daughter Tricia for her own economic gains, leading Tricia to experience a nightmari...
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The Greatest Mother of 'em All
1967
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
7/1
This promotional short film for the feature Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) takes us to the many locations in Dorset County, England, where the movi...
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Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
1952
The Riddle of Robin Hood
0/0
Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; released in 1952.
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The Riddle of Robin Hood
1967
Lionpower from MGM
6.333/3
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five se...
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Lionpower from MGM
1962
Antony and Cleopatra
0/0
Vivien Leigh and Peter Finch perform an abridged audio play of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" for the Living Shakespeare series, 1962.
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Antony and Cleopatra
2025
Breakdown: 1975
6.823/31
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
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