Year: 1979 Duration: 157 min Credits: Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch. The invasion followed forces the vain King to abdicate the throne, and rebellion ensues. To determine whether a practitioner has been previously disciplined, click on this link for the List of Previously Disciplined Practitioners. King Richard II sows the seeds of his own downfall when he exiles Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. 13, 2012).įor more information about a practitioner's disciplinary history, click on the hyperlinked date. In reality, Richard was a cunning ruler who was kicked off the throne not once but twice. But I think that this assumption owes more to the plot than the actual character. The term expelled has been replaced by the term disbarred, which has the same meaning and effect. Richard II is widely assumed to be the weak king of Shakespeares monarchs, owing to his lyricism, and the fact that he is easily deposed by Bolingbroke (here played by Jon Finch). *These practitioners were expelled from practice prior to January 13, 2012. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis give performances charged with fury and sex appeal as a decorated warrior rising through the ranks and his driven wife. Newest changes are also indicated by highlighted blue text that is annotated with the word (NEW). Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity.Recent updates to the list: Jean Abrahamson Pirzadeh - Colorado/Washington.He was later a nobly played and spoken Don Pedro in the BBC's Much Ado About Nothing (1984).įinch married the actor Catriona MacColl in 1982. He regarded the highlight of his career to be his portrayal of Henry Bolingbroke in Richard II (1978), and Henry IV, parts one and two (1979) in the BBC's Shakespeare history cycle. He preferred real-life derring-do - motor racing and parachuting.Īlthough he turned down the part of Doyle (eventually taken by Martin Shaw) in The Professionals (1977), claiming curiously that he ''couldn't possibly play a policeman'', Finch continued to appear regularly on television and in films. Around the same time, Finch declined the Bond offer as well as one from Richard Lester to play Aramis in The Three Musketeers. He was quietly authoritative as the cuckolded politician Lord Melbourne in Robert Bolt's Lady Caroline Lamb (1973), in a role that had first been offered to Timothy Dalton, a future James Bond. He and Francesca Annis, as the Macbeths, were impressively youthful, tortured and impassioned.Įqually outraged and baffled as a bitter ex-Royal Air Force hero down on his luck, Finch subtly avoided the temptation to be sympathetic as ''the wrong man'' accused of being the ''neck-tie strangler'' in Frenzy, Hitchcock's first film shot in England for 16 years. After seeing them, Polanski thought Finch had the qualities to play Macbeth. His film career began in two hammy Hammer horrors, The Vampire Lovers and The Horror of Frankenstein (both 1970). Indeed, Finch would return to the Bard time and again, and proved equally commanding as Henry Bolingbroke to Derek Jacobis Richard II (1978), the lead in Henry IV (1979) and Don Pedro in Much Ado. It's a very pleasant life, not one of great ambition.'' Actually, leaving aside the great expectations, Finch's career was a reasonably successful one by normal standards. During 19 Finch played the role of Henry Bolingbroke in the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part. ''I usually do one film a year, so I always have enough money to enjoy myself and keep myself out of the public eye. ''I never wanted to be a big star,'' he once said. That Finch never achieved the level of stardom expected may be attributed to his dislike of the kind of media publicity that goes with it and his self-proclaimed lack of ambition. The fact that Finch turned the part down stupefied many commentators. Around the same time he was offered the chance to replace Sean Connery as James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973). At the beginning of his film career, he played the title role in Roman Polanski's The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). He had the dark good looks, the voice, the charisma and the opportunities. IN THE 1970s, it seemed a sure bet that the actor Jon Finch, who has died aged 71, would become a durable film star.
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