Frank Finlay's Grave - Famous Graves, The Wild Geese, Dracula
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2023
- Todays Famous Grave visit is that of British Actor Frank Finlay, who was in films such as The Wild Geese, Inspector Clouseau, Count Dracula and many more
Francis Finlay, CBE (6 August 1926 - 30 January 2016) was an English actor. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Iago in Othello (1965)
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Some years ago i wrote frank a letter via BBC tv and asked them to pass it onto him, which they kindly did on my behalf. Not too long after a long white envelope dropped on my doormat, containing a signed black and white photograph of frank, looking very serious. He signed it best wishes, john, Frank Finlay. He thanked me for my kind words as id told him in my letter he was my favourite Van Helsing and also one of my favourite actors. Such a nice man and fabulous actor. And very much missed 😢
Hi Paul, Frank Finlay had three children Daniel, Cathy and Stephen Finlay is his son who sadly died at 48. Surely his two children could sort a head stone for their dad, it’s so sad to see he has been left there like that.
Their mother and his wife also. The mother going on nearly 18 years now and no head stone.
I wonder if a simple minimalist grave was what he wanted though.
Good point. Roy Orbison is buried in an unmarked grave so perhaps this is something similar? @@trevorbrown6654
I think its sad after all these years he hasn't got a stone.
It’s very similar to the cross he brandishes as the Witchsmeller Pursuivant in Blackadder so maybe it was what he wanted?!
My mother and I find it so sad that after such a wonderful career in the acting profession that a decent headstone has not been put in place. I loved his portrayal as Marley in A Christmas Carol. My mother met him whilst performing at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. She said he was a nice man! R.I.P. Frank Finlay ❤
There may be a good, private, reason why no headstone ahs been put in place. It took me 6 years before I felt able to put a headstone on my mothers grave. Huge amount of grief played a big part in that, and the planning and putting that headstone on the grave felt like I was putting a great big full stop on her life. I just couldn't seem to do that final thing.
Obviously, eventually, things happened and I felt I needed to find my brave and do that final thing for her. It took an enormous amount of bravery, but the place I ordered the stone from was SO amazing and so gentle with me, even explaining that it wasn't as unusual as I might have thought. Many people have their own reasons for not placing a gravestone after their loved ones have passed. So, *people reading* please don't judge the remaining family of Mr. Finley. They may have reason for not yet putting that gravestone in place. I hope they can eventually do it, just because I know what relief I felt once I saw the stone in place on my mothers grave. It was an emotional moment, but I felt that my mom was there, telling me "Well done, sweetheart" . Please don't judge the relatives, they will have their reasons.
Apologies for the length of this comment.
Sending hugs and love to those who need to feel it today ~ Cobs. x
So so sad,,no grave stone,,for such a Brilliant Actor 😥
Very sad about the grave marker, but beautifully presented with empathy Paul ❤
We all get forgotten...
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT 👏 it's sad about his grave marker. That's why we need people like you to keep there memory alive. We'll done paul outstanding as always thank you x
Hi Paul Frank finlay was an proper English actor I watched him in bouquet of barb wire great show frank was class thanks Paul 👍👍👍
Having spent time in the U.K. over the years, I do recognize this gentleman as being a very fine actor.
Stephen Finlay - an actor, writer and artist in his own right, was Frank and Doreen Finlay's son.
He passed away in 2004, and Frank lost his wife Doreen in 2005.
I can't begin to imagine what two losses so close together might feel like...
It's sad that Doreen and Frank have been without a headstone for so long.
The reasons for this may be many, however, I still find it heartbreaking.
THANK You for yet another brilliant clip, Paul!💕
Frank finlay came close to playing blofeld in diamonds are forever 1971 thanks mate.
So sad no headstone none needed he left his marker in our hearts epic actor great respect as always paul ❤👍👍👍👌
Bouquet of Barbed Wire, naughty before it's time. Watched it as a kid when I shouldn't have!
Mrs H 🇬🇧 ... Paul lad your Fanbloodytastic... Thank You luv for all your hard work to bring us your video's...😉💋
Another brilliant video and I agree with you frank finlay was an great actor and shud have an head stone buy know its an shame thanks for a another brilliant video xxx
Amazing actor, superb with Laurence Olivier in Othello. Met him at the Theatre Royal Newcastle, he was in a Royal Shakespeare production, what a gentleman!
Was this geezer from bouquet of barb wire late 70 s series on tv ?
A brilliant actor in so many films and TV shows 📺 born in Farnworth close to where I live 👍🏻 may he rest in peace 🙏🏻🌹🕊️ thanks Paul a great video as always 🤳🏻😊 your amazing 🤗
Frank Finlay a brilliant actor
A very nice gentleman
Who dedicated his life to
His acting making many films to entertain us.
R I P Frank 🙏🏻🕊🙏🏻
THANK YOU
Aww Frank Finlay was an Amazing actor …i liked him best in Dracula….he was an icon …it’s so sad when graves are neglected…I Allways go to the cemetery when I go home to Newcastle to visit family I know and family that I haven’t met …I Allways take a large bunch of flowers and visit each grave and put some flowers down ,we should never forget our family that lived before us …Love and respect Allways…Thankyou Paul for your Amazing channel and making this all possible for us … love this channel X😄
Great video,and your honest opinion...many thanks
Didn't know much about him until now rip .yet again thanks paul❤
I always ramber Frank Finlay for his role in Bouquet of Barbed Wire....its so sad there's no headstone for him...He left a legacy tho of some great work that keeps his memory alive for for us all to see..Thanx again Paul for your hard work in research sand finding these final resting places ...
A very accomplished actor and a great performer and i hate spiders a run a mile if i see one screaming lol thankyou paul for another great video
I have the greatest respect for you Paul in your presentation and delivery of the videos thankyou
Even a small head stone would suffice as this would outlast a wooden grave marker by decades.
A fine actor fondly remembered.
Thanks very much for the video Paul. I live in Shepperton and used to see him a lot in the high street. When my son was younger we saw him in a film called Station Jim. The next day we saw him in the baker's and my son was overwhelmed to see and talk to him .
He was a real gentleman and had time for everyone.
RIP Frank
So so sad that someone so respected in his field of acting and so talented at his craft should end up with such a humble grave. Surely someone out there whether family or friends could rectify this and give Frank a memorable tribute . Thank You for sharing this video , keeping peoples memories alive. So true that no matter how famous , important ,rich or poor eventually we all end up a distant memory
I remember him often on TV in 70s early 80s films and series👍
Loved him in the Pianist
ooo I reconaising him ❤❤❤
The pianist, he was amazing.
Another great video, thanks Paul. For me one of FF's most memorable roles was Marley's Ghost in the 1984 Christmas Carol alongside George C Scott.
Bouquet of Barbed Wire remains one of my favourite series. Frank Finlay's character was so creepy. In the early 2000s when on holiday in Torquay with my late partner, we met Frank Finlay a couple of Sundays mornings strolling along the prom. He raised his straw hat and wished us a good morning. I almost swooned, he was a good looking man 🤩. How sad he still has no headstone.
Thanks Paul, he was great in the Musketeers wasn't he ! He made some great films. Love your video's, xxx
Loved Frank Great Actor sad to see a Marker Cross should be a Headstone so he can be Remembered
Thankyou Paul, it is a great shame and I was thinking just the other day when I was watching only fools and was thinking of 'triggers' grave and the state of it and also Bob hoskins grave 😔😔fantastic actors and are just left in over grown well, looks like in a wooded area and if you didn't know you were in a cemetery you would just think that, but even us ordinary people are forgotten not just famous and i often think when i go to tend my baby sisters grave and see unkept forgotten babies graves around, that isn't it a sad world when the cemetery workers have no compassion to clean them up!😢 I weed and tidy ones around but big place and I'm one person but empathy costs nothing I always think 🫂
I saw Frank Finlay in the film THE WILD GEESE, and he was a great actor
Frank Was a lovely human being and a gentleman, as well as a really brilliant actor! My husband came from Farnworth, and his mother while still living there, regularly used to see him and pass the time of day with him. She said “ being such a great Actor you might think he had aires and graces! Thought he was above the rest of us! But he was lovely! A really nice Gentleman,always with a smile..and so good looking!”. I’m also saddened to just see the original grave marker in place, and tarnished after 7 yrs. He had a son Steven Francis, who died aged 48, and I think that’s his grave next to his father, but there WERE two daughters too. As you so rightly say, we don’t know the family dynamics…and it
Could even be that Frank told his children not to waste money on fripperies of a grave stone etc…OR his daughters can’t afford one. But to me, whether there is a stone or not, and yes they can be expensive…..some flowers or an evergreen shrub wouldn’t cost the earth..or some polish to show up the couples name better on the cross.
Regarding getting some actors or similar to club together for a gravestone, I have a feeling any family would have to be contacted to ask permission! Not 100% on that, but get a feeling you do…..otherwise we will have to try a go fund me…as there may be other famous people you have visited who have no memorial marker too…. That was really interesting Paul (as always! 😘) but it has left me feeling sad….. I’ve already put aside money for my sons to put a
Small marker up for me…tried to think of everything and write my wishes down…..even added “please plant bulbs!” As they both live some distance away, so I know they won’t really feel like driving couple hundred miles to bring flowers!
So sorting it myself! Lol….what are we like!? Dear oh dear…we think we are immortal when young, then getting older, losing friends and relatives, you suddenly become more aware that actually you aren’t! 🙀 Thanks for all you do for us Paul…someone else called you a Superstar and said you should be a tv presenter. I agree on both counts, except I’m
Greedy, and don’t want to lose seeing your lovely smiley face on here, and the “Fink I’ve found it” hand gesture! Your OUR Superstar…but wouldn’t hold you back if you got offered something you’d like to do. Take care, stay safe driving here there and everywhere! Love and light! Helen 🙋♀️🥰👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😻🙏🦋🦋🦋XXX
Paul - you’re a superstar. You should be a presenter on TV. Thank u so much for all of your hard work and dedication. X
Couldn't agree more❤
Totaly agree 👍
Wow, thank you! Maybe one day I’ll get spotted lol 😊
@@UnusualThings1 did you see my reply about the jack daws are related to crows and magpies like their cousins
Yes thank you 🙏
An amazing Actor,,,so looking forward to this😊
Ooh can't wait, great actor xx
Paid a visit to his grave yesterday as live very close by - it remains the somewhat weathered wooden cross. Went home and watched Blackadder! RIP Frank
paul i live in shepperton his house in shepperton sold for over 3 million 3 years before he died
Good work Paul family ay🦇
Maybe one day Frank Finlay will get a Headstone. Thank you Paul for the story of this Great Man.
Hi Paul he was a fantastic actor played really good roll well done frank 😢❤
Taxi drivers do club together when colleagues pass. We usually raise about £1500/£2000. This is given to the family. We attend the funerals too.
How sad that Frank and his wife do not have a headstone, yet. Let's hope this situation is rectified. I rememver him in the 3 musketeers and other plays etc. He was a fine actor and deserves to be remembered properly. Couldn't believe my ears when you said his date of birth - the day after my Dad and just down the road in Lancashire too. He must have done military service in WW2. Thanks for a sensitive vlog. I just hope Frank would have appreciated it. ⚘
There may be no family left to get a gravestone, but you really do not need one, they are remembered in other ways.
@@janetpendlebury6808 You are right to say they are not needed, but people tend to walk over gaps if there is no headstone, through ignorance. Paul was appealing for other actors to help out, however, I would have thought there would have been money left in Frank's bank account that should have paid for a headstone by his solicitors, or appointed executors. Obviously there was a funeral, otherwise they would not be in a grave, so there must have been enough money for that. It just looks unfinished and a bit odd that's all. Why have a grave and no headstone?
Wonderful actor he also played the part in Casanova I think shame he does not have a head stone he deserves one thankyou Paul lovely place 😊❤️
Sad for him😢 thank you because you're big heart
Bouquet of Barbed Wired is what comes to mind first when I think of Frank Finlay. Sad about his grave not having a proper headstone especially when it appears his son rests next to him with a nice stone. Thanks for the info Paul, I learned a lot about Mr Finlay and the acting legacy he left behind. I particularly liked his performance with Thora Hird in Heartbeat
He lived near me a few years ago then lived next door to my cousin in his later years. It is sad about not having a headstone after all this time.
Thank you Paul for another fantastic video x and taking my mind off the stuff I am going through at the moment x
So sorry Kelly, keep your chin up and stay strong… 🙏
@@UnusualThings1 thank you x
Hi paul another brilliant actor gone but never forgotten...brilliant in the wild geese and legendry performance in the series bouquet of barbed wire...I alway thought he would be a good dracula...all the best mate hammergazz 😙👍
Hi Paul liked the video looking forward to the next video 🙂👍👌
Thanks
Thanks Joe
Saw him onstage in Birmingham some years ago in a production of the woman in black! The play and the acting were amazing Frank acted alongside Tricky Dicky from EastEnders who was also great.
He was a great actor you would have thought his children would have put a grave stone up😊❤👉
He was a great actor 🍺
Hi Paul so sorry I did not watch this one live. I was out with my sister
Totally agree Paul, it's a shame that nobody has put a headstone up.
Well done Paul. I'm back after an illness. He was in the 1984 version of an Xmas carol with George C Scott
Hope you’re on the mend
Thanks paul.shame no grave stone.
Thanks for the video, I'm sure I've seen this Gentleman before on the TV.... the live chat did distract me a little bit but managed to watch it 😊
Hi Paul thanks for your vlog about Frank Finlay. He was a good actor and did a lot of work in different genres. It is sad he doesn't have a grave stone but as other people have said he may not have wanted one. He lost his son and wife too early. RIP Frank
Thanks Paul a great video again . What a fine actor he was .
A go fund page may be needed
Nice one Paul,
I rember many films that he was in also watched Bouquet of barbed wire, so sad that only a marker after all this time. Another great job done Paul.
Paul Jackdaws are the smallest member of the crow family. And keep those videos coming I love them all. You are an amazing guy Paul 🙏❤
When people talk about famous folk from my neck of the woods its normally Peter Kay, Vernon Kay, Sarah Cox, Fred Dibnah, Amir Khan , Bernard Wrigley etc...
Little known that Frank Finlay and Robert Shaw can also be added to that list.
Superb masters of their craft.
Mr Finlay was a qualified butcher too!
Great video
Loved this Paul he was a amazing actor thank
You so much for all
The info you put into this
Thank you as always. And yes it is sad to see a marker but we will never know the circumstances to why. I only say this through my experience. My sister and I spent 11 years looking for my grandfathers grave. (He died before we were born). We were upset to find his grave with no headstone or marker. Now the lady who worked at London City Cemetery informed us she found our great grandmother. The location was three graves away. There she laid with a beautiful headstone and what I call all the trimmings (the stones and edging). On looking she died two months before my grandfather. We could only come to the conclusion money was spent for hers and money had run out as certainly not expecting my grandfather to die soon after. Saying all that, you Paul have kept his memory alive. ❤
Another great video thanks Pau
His sad see he such great actour that look so sad I need remember I deserve better❤❤😊❤
Nice one Paul he was a great actor and so sad he has not got a nice headstone. We had a Jackdaw come down our chimney, the R.S.P.C.A was not interested so at midnight we had to dismantle our fire to release to poor thing.
Stephen Finlay was Frank Finlay’s son and his mother was Doreen Shepard xx
He was a distinctive handsome man. And so are you Paul. I remember a bouquet of barbed wire was quite naughty. 😄.
It’s a shame about the marker,loved a Christmas carol,again Paul another great video xx
His family described him as a wonderful father and loving grandfather. Yet not one of them has respected him in death. Sad. RIP Frank Finlay, thank you for your contribution to the acting industry. A wonderful actor, may you continue in your next life. ❤❤
As you said in your commentary there were three children from his marriage to Doreen. A poor show that none of them thought their parents were worth more than just a wooden cross and a cheap inscribed and now fading metal plate.
Maybe they remember their parents in other ways, not everyone wants or needs a fancy headstone. My parents were both cremated and scattered, they did not want money spent on headstones or memorials.
Hi paul still here bit late sorry x
Hi Paul I would like to thank you for the very much great full work you do for all of us an very thoughtful in what you do in letting us know who is an not about know actors singers comedians and anyone in that field or else we would never know if it wasn't for you it's a great great shame for those who are no longer with us come.s to us all I'm afraid but unfortunately that's life it's an amazing work that you do for us most appreciated an thank you Martin 👍👍👍
The grave for Stephen Finlay could be his son, as one was called Stephen
Hi Paul, another excellent video, I remember most of the films that Frank was in, so sad that he hasn’t had a gravestone, 😢 such an amazing actor to be forgotten like that. I hope some one gets him a gravestone. Xx
Quite sad to think a man who did so well in his acting career have left just a cross and no stone ,very sad
Hi Paul that is definitely his son's grave that is next to his parents. He was such a lovely man very courteous and polite. Saw him loads of times in Weybridge either Post office or Waitrose. Such a shame that Mr Finlay only gets a marker. Thank you for another fantastic video from sunny Weybridge. Respect given as always
That is sad 😞 thanks for sharing Paul
Das war wieder großartig 👍.einige Filme kenne ich sehr gut.
Er war ein guter Schauspieler und sehr beliebt meine ich.
Danke für alles Paul 👍👋
He lived to be a ripe old age after a fantastic career. He's now at peace Rip Sir
Bless him rip sir
I agree with you Paul it's a shame cause he was a great actor and and the should put a head stone 4,him and I luv him scrooge as Marleys ghost thanks Paul 4 that
Paul, Jackdaws is one of my favourite birds with that lovely blue eye which is unsual they are part of the Corvid family which includes Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, and the rarest one Chough
May the both rest in peace 🙏
He has a brother. I worked for the ex business partner of his brother in Bolton back in 1988-1990.
Hi Paul, it's sad . When we went back to England in 1984 we went to put flowers on my grandparents in Walsall and found that my uncle who was buried in 1979 had no head stone either it upset my mum and all us . I had a few words with my cousins and my aunts who were still living and asked why. My uncle wasn't married he was in an institution because he wasn't well . I kept in contact with him even though he found it hard he never forgot me and my sister. But me being older and married myself now it upset me alot . We got a headstone done for him and now he can be found and remembered by my family. I haven't been back home so we get photos sent to see if he is being kept clean and flowers. My grandparents to . All are passed now my mum , dad and sister I'm the only one who came to Australia 54 years alive now 65 . Thankyou for what you do love it. God bless you keep safe and well from Karen in Australia x🐈🙏🥰🐨🦘🇭🇲💖
There are many comments on the lack of a headstone, Frank had many years to get one for his wife if he wanted to, so it seems to me that they did not want one and the family have honoured that request. Not everyone wants a fancy marker, the family no doubt remember them both in their own ways. My parents were both cremated and scattered as they did not want the expense or upkeep of a grave marker.
Another good one Paul, at least Frank will be remembered by his films if not by his headstone 💐
Unbelievable no head stone just a cross so sad