Profile
Peter Finch
Australian Actor
Male
Born
Sep 28, 1916
Hometown
South Kensington
Died
Jan 14, 1977
Death Place
Beverly Hills, Ca...
Other Names
Ingle-Finch, Fred...
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor… Read More
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Eletha FinchMarried 1973 - 1977
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Yolande TurnerMarried 1959 - 1968
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Tamara TchinarovaMarried 1943 - 1958
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1916
Birth
Born on September 28, 1916.
1922
5 Years Old
Alicia Finch married "Jock" Campbell in 1922.
1925
8 Years Old
George gained custody of Peter and he was taken from his mother and raised by his paternal "grandmother" Laura Finch (formerly Black) in Vaucresson, France. In 1925 Laura took Finch 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.
1926
9 Years Old
In 1926 he was sent to Australia to live with his great uncle Edward Herbert Finch at Greenwich Point in Sydney.
TEENAGE
1929
12 Years Old
He attended the local public school until 1929, then North Sydney Intermediate High School for three years.
1933
16 Years Old
After graduating, Finch went to work as a copy boy for the Sydney Sun and began writing. However he was more interested in acting, and in late 1933 appeared in a play, Caprice, at the Repertory Theatre.
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1935
18 Years Old
Finch's first screen performance was in a 1935 short film, The Magic Shoes, an adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella.
TWENTIES
1938
21 Years Old
He made his feature film debut in 1938 with a supporting role in Dad and Dave Come to Town for director Ken G. Hall, who went on to cast Finch in a larger role supporting Cecil Kellaway in Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939).
Finch enlisted in the Australian army on 2 June 1941.
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He produced and performed Army Concert Party work, and in 1945 toured bases and hospitals with two Terence Rattigan plays he directed, French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines.
After the war, Finch continued to work heavily in radio and established himself as Australia's leading actor in that medium, winning Macquarie Awards for best actor in 1946 and 1947.
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THIRTIES
Olivier encouraged Finch to move to London, and he left Australia in 1948.
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1954
37 Years Old
Towards the end of 1954 Finch's contract with Laurence Olivier was about to expire and he instead signed a seven-year contract with the Rank Organisation worth £87,500 to make one movie a year for them. "We are going to build Peter into a major British star," said Earl St. John, Rank's head of production, at the time.
FIFTIES
1976
59 Years Old
At the time of Finch's death, he was doing a promotional tour for the 1976 film Network in which he played the television anchorman Howard Beale who develops messianic pretensions.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1977
60 Years Old
After suffering a heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Finch died on 14 January 1977, at the age of 60; he is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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