Cast: Peter Finch

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Peter Finch. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Network

1976 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Faye Dunaway · William Holden · Peter Finch · Robert Duvall

Plot NETWORK follows the doomed path of aging newsman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), who upon learning that he is to be fired after decades as a news anchor announces to millions...

7.6

13K votes

7.6

13K votes

The Nun's Story

1959 · Movie · 149 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Peter Finch · Edith Evans · Peggy Ashcroft

Plot Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Far From the Madding Crowd

1967 · Movie · 169 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Julie Christie · Terence Stamp · Peter Finch · Alan Bates

Plot Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration....

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast James Stewart · Richard Attenborough · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine

Plot After a cargo plane crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara, the surviving crew must fight starvation and their own fears in order to escape from the harsh desert before...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Kim Novak · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine · Milton Selzer

Plot A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

6.6

270 votes

6.6

270 votes

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Peter Finch · Yvonne Mitchell · James Mason · Nigel Patrick

Plot The noted 19th century wit risks social disgrace for love of another man.

6.6

57 votes

6.6

57 votes

The Pumpkin Eater

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Anne Bancroft · Peter Finch · James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes...

6.6

245 votes

6.6

245 votes

A Town Like Alice

1956 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Virginia McKenna · Peter Finch · Kenji Takaki · Tran Van Khe

Plot In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to...

6.6

88 votes

6.6

88 votes

Girl with Green Eyes

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Peter Finch · Rita Tushingham · Lynn Redgrave · Marie Kean

Plot An awkward young Irish farm girl Kate Brady moves to Dublin and shares a room with funny, outgoing Baba Brennan, where she soon meets Eugene Gaillard, a middle-aged writer, who...

6.4

71 votes

6.4

71 votes

Elephant Walk

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Dana Andrews · Peter Finch · Abraham Sofaer

Plot John Wiley takes his new bride, Ruth to "Elephant Walk", a tea plantation in Ceylon which happens to be on the path where elephants roam. Soon Ruth discovers the truth...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Simon and Laura

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Peter Finch · Kay Kendall · Muriel Pavlow · Hubert Gregg

Plot In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses...

6.4

27 votes

6.4

27 votes

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

1971 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Glenda Jackson · Peter Finch · Murray Head · Peggy Ashcroft

Plot A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only...

6.4

605 votes

6.4

605 votes

Father Brown

1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Peter Finch · Cecil Parker

Plot Father Brown is an eccentric priest who spends his spare time working as an amateur private-eye to capture and reform criminals. When he is outwitted by the sly, international art...

6.2

222 votes

6.2

222 votes

The Abdication

1974 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Harvey

Cast Liv Ullmann · Peter Finch · Cyril Cusack · Paul Rogers

Plot In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order to embrace Catholicism. However, as she studies the faith,...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes

Operation Amsterdam

1959 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael McCarthy

Cast Peter Finch · Eva Bartok · Tony Britton · Alexander Knox

Plot During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and...

6.2

86 votes

6.2

86 votes

The Red Tent

1969 · Movie · 122 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Peter Finch · Sean Connery · Claudia Cardinale · Hardy Krüger

Plot The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the...

6.1

282 votes

6.1

282 votes

10:30 p.m. Summer

1966 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Romy Schneider · Peter Finch · Julián Mateos

Plot Melodrama (based on the novel 10:30 on a Summer Night by Dassin's co-screenwriter Marguerite Duras) in which the still-beautiful yet insecurely middle-aged Maria (Mercouri) travels to Spain with her husband...

6.1

144 votes

6.1

144 votes

I Thank a Fool

1962 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Susan Hayward · Peter Finch · Diane Cilento · Cyril Cusack

Plot A physician Christine Allison)is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

First Men in the Moon

1964 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Edward Judd · Martha Hyer · Lionel Jeffries · Miles Malleson

Plot H.G. Wells' fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring unforgettable extra-terrestrial creatures....

6.0

591 votes

6.0

591 votes

The Battle of the River Plate

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Peter Finch · John Gregson · Anthony Quayle · Ian Hunter

Plot Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep...

6.0

659 votes

6.0

659 votes