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10 wins & 6 nominations.
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Actor (58 credits)
1973
Lost Horizon
(performer: "I Might Frighten Her Away", "If I Could Go Back", "I Come to You" - uncredited)
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Self (23 credits)
1973-1977
Film 2018
(TV Series)
Self / Self - Interviewee
1971
Cinema
(TV Series documentary)
Self
1944
Jungle Patrol
(Documentary short)
Narrator (voice, as Gnr.Peter Finch)
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Personal Details
Publicity Listings:
3 Print Biographies
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1 Portrayal
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1 Interview
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5 Articles
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2 Pictorials
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5 Magazine Cover Photos
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Alternate Names:
Gnr.Peter Finch | William Mitchell
Height:
5' 9" (1.75 m)
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Did You Know?
Personal Quote:
[on not winning the Oscar for
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)] One's disappointment, perhaps - and there must be some - is mixed with enormous relief that you don't have to get up there and say something.
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Trivia:
He was not director
John Schlesinger first choice for his masterpiece,
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). Oscar-nominee
Alan Bates had been signed by the director to play the part of "Dr. Daniel Hirsh", a youngish homosexual doctor, but eventually became unavailable due to another commitment that ran behind schedule.
Ian Bannen replaced him but, according to the late screenwriter,
Penelope Gilliatt, in...
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Nickname:
Finchie