James Finlayson
James Finlayson was born in Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom on August 27th, 1887 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 66, James Finlayson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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James Finlayson (1887–1953), a Scottish-born American actor who appeared in both silent and sound comedies, died on August 27th.
Finlayson's signature, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, as the best remembered humour foil of Laurel and Hardy, with a fake moustache. Finlayson was known by a number of names.
According to Laurel and Hardy scholar Randy Skretvedt, he "called himself Jimmy" on the lot, and is probably better known as Fin in Our Relations and one named Mickey Finn in Way Out West, or more likely, as a truncated version of his surname.
Personal life and death
Emily Cora Gilbert, an American citizen from Iowa, was born in 1919 and became a citizen of the United States in 1942.
Stephanie Insall and Finlayson shared breakfast together. Finlayson did not turn up at the usual time on the morning of 9 October 1953. Insall went to his house where she found his body after finding he had been sick from flu recently. Finlayson died as a result of a heart attack. He was 66 years old.
Early life and stage career
Alexander and Isabella (née Henderson), Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland, before pursuing an acting career, James Finlayson worked as a tinsmith. He appeared in Jeanie Deans at Edinburgh's Theatre Royal in 1910 as part of John Clyde's company.
He and his brother, Robert, emigrated (at age 24) to the United States next year (1911), with both parents dead. "James Finlayson had an excellent opportunity to develop two characters in his one role, the simple, naive detective and the artistic, tenacious detective," in New York City in May 1912. He did a good job by combining both activities at the same time, which was the most surprising."
He starred in Rab Biggar in Graham Moffat's Broadway play Bunty Pulls the Strings and then dropped out of a national tour in 1916 to pursue a career in Hollywood.