James Finlayson (actor)
Scottish actor (1887–1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Henderson Finlayson (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Balding, with a fake moustache,[1] he had many trademark comic mannerisms—including his squinting, outraged double-take reactions, and his characteristic exclamation: "D'ooooooh!" He is the best remembered comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.
James Finlayson | |
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Born | James Henderson Finlayson (1887-08-27)27 August 1887 Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
Died | 9 October 1953(1953-10-09) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, US |
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Years active | 1910–1951 |
Spouse |
Emily Cora Gilbert (m. 1919) |
Finlayson was known by a variety of nicknames. According to Laurel and Hardy scholar Randy Skretvedt, he "called himself Jimmy, was known around the lot as Jim and is usually referred to today as 'Fin'"[2]—a truncated version of his surname, as author John McCabe also noted in his 1961 biography Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy.