1. John Nicholas Finch was an English stage and film actor who became well known for his Shakespearean roles.
23 Facts About Jon Finch
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Between 1950 and 1960, Jon Finch was educated at Caterham School, an independent school in Caterham.
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Jon Finch resigned from the military as his acting commitments became more demanding, and said he was relieved to not have to go to Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation.
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Jon Finch appeared on stage in From the Hill in 1963.
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Jon Finch got a job as assistant manager in Penbroke Theatre in the Round.
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Jon Finch 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.
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Jon Finch played the lead character, Simon King, in the BBC science fiction series Counterstrike, one of the last BBC drama series made in black and white.
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Jon Finch appeared in two Hammer Films productions, The Vampire Lovers and The Horror of Frankenstein.
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Jon Finch had a small role in the ground-breaking 1971 drama Sunday Bloody Sunday, which starred the unrelated Peter Finch.
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Jon Finch's casting was announced in October 1970, and was controversial, because Finch was so young and had not performed any Shakespeare previously.
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Jon Finch was impressed with the rushes for Macbeth and cast Finch.
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Jon Finch said at that stage of his career he wanted to make "one good film" a year and do theatre.
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Jon Finch had two more films to do for Caliban, the company which made Macbeth, and was going to write screenplays.
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Jon Finch was offered the role of James Bond in Live and Let Die, but he declined the part and it went to Roger Moore.
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Jon Finch declined a role in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers.
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Jon Finch went to Europe to star in Game of Seduction, directed by Roger Vadim, as well as The Second Power and The Standard.
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Jon Finch was credited as guest star in The New Avengers Medium Rare.
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Jon Finch withdrew at the last minute, claiming that he "couldn't possibly play a policeman".
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Jon Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out after he fell ill on the first day of filming, and John Hurt was cast in his place.
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In 1980, Jon Finch appeared in Breaking Glass and, in 1981, he played Luke the Evangelist in the television film Peter and Paul, which featured Robert Foxworth and Anthony Hopkins in the title roles.
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Jon Finch was in Giro City with Glenda Jackson and Power Game, and played an SAS man in the TV series The Odd Job Man.
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Jon Finch became increasingly associated with support roles like Plaza Real and Streets of Yesterday, and guest starred on TV shows.
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Jon Finch's body was discovered in his flat in Hastings, East Sussex, on 28 December 2012, after friends and family had become concerned for his welfare.