Peter Finch

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. ​

Filmography

Howard Beale
Umberto Nobile
Yitzhak Rabin
Self (archive footage)
Dr. Fortunati
Alan Breck Stewart
John Wiley
Dr. Daniel Hirsh
Eugene Gaillard
Captain Langsdorff, "Admiral Graf Spee"
Peter Linton
Jake Armitage
Colonel Henry Derode
Comte De Ville
Lewis Zarken / Louie Flack
Richard Conway
Gustave Flambeau
Stephen Dane
Simon Foster
Johnnie Byrne
Aaron Stein
Macauley
Polish officer
Kapitän John Ryland "Lucky"
Australian in Hospital
British agent (uncredited)
Alec Windom
Captain Starlight
Bailiff's Man (uncredited)
Erich Krogh
Adm. Lord Horatio Nelson
Prince Charming
Paul Graham
Philip Mason
Reynolds Junior