As Actor
Raid on Entebbe
1976
6.0
Peter Finch
Acting
Birth date
September 27, 1916
Birth place
South Kensington, London, England, UK
Death date
January 14, 1977
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Finch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Featured in
As Actor
Network
1976
7.8
As Actor
The Abdication
1974
5.5
As Actor
Lost Horizon
1973
5.4
As Actor
Something to Hide
1972
5.2
As Actor
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
6.6
As Actor
The Red Tent
1969
6.0
As Actor
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
6.9
As Actor
Judith
1966
4.3
As Actor
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965
7.2
As Actor
The Pumpkin Eater
1964
6.7
As Actor
Girl with Green Eyes
1964
6.6
As Actor
In the Cool of the Day
1963
5.4
As Actor
I Thank a Fool
1962
5.5
As Actor
The Sins of Rachel Cade
1961
6.1
As Actor
No Love for Johnnie
1961
6.2
As Actor
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
6.4
As Actor
The Nun's Story
1959
7.2
As Actor
Windom's Way
1957
5.0
As Actor
The Shiralee
1957
5.1