Jon Finch

John Nicholas Finch 2 March 1941 28 December 2012 was an English actor noted for his many Shakespearean roles Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanskis film adaptation of Macbeth 1971 Finch was born in Caterham Surrey He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy 1972 portraying a man wrongly accused of murder Death on the Nile 1978 and in one of his last roles a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem Heraclius though unnamed in the film in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Decades earlier Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scotts Alien but had to drop out because of his diabetes The role was eventually played by John Hurt