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Actor: Frank Finlay

Frank Finlay was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Othello, playing Iago opposite Laurence Olivier, and played Porthos across the Musketeers films. He also played Scrooge’s Marley and worked constantly in British television.

Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman at a piano, gaunt and thin, in a scene from The Pianist.Adrien Brody

The Pianist (2002) Review

The Pianist (2002) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Polanski survived the Krakow Ghetto as a child and spent sixty years declining to film the Holocaust before he made this. It won the Palme d'Or and three…

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A Christmas Carol (1984) film posterDavid Warner

A Christmas Carol (1984)

Scott plays Scrooge in a faithful television adaptation that became a holiday staple after theatrical release. A Christmas Carol is Clive Donner's 1984 American television adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, depicting the Christmas Eve transformation of Victorian London miser…

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