Photos

Photos from various publications, screenshots from DVDs, websites, etc

• Photos from Theatre World, October 1954 of Salad Days at the Vaudeville
• Photo from Midsummer Nights Dream 1958 on BBC television
• Photos from Plays and Players of Tartuffe and Sganarelle 
• Screenshots from Marriage Lines
• Lobby stills from The Hidden Face episode of Scales of Justice
• Photo from Beauty And The Beast from the Birmingham Rep archives
• Photos from Confederacy from the Birmingham Rep archives 
• Photo from Point Of Departure from the Birmingham Rep archives
• Photos from The Circle from www.tipsimages.it
• Photos of the Old Vic Company off to perform Macbeth in Moscow 
• Photos from Adam Adamant Lives episode "Death by appointment only", aired Sep 8, 1966
• Photos from The Detective: The Beast Must Die (1968) see https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0558799/
  
   
   

Below are a selection of publicity photos. 

 

 

 

a)  Photo from the Mary Evans picture library. Available from the Diomedia website , the profimedia
website and the Tipsimages website, and Yooniqimages.com ( around 1950?)

 

 

 

b) Christine Finn publicity photo in a 1954 Theatre Royal  pamphlet article for the play 'The School of Wives' announcing her as a newcomer to the Bristol Old Vic

 

 

 

 

 

c) Christine Finn publicity photo used in 1959

 

 

 

 

 

 

d) Newspaper publicity shot for Marriage Lines from Daily Express or Mirror

 

 

 

 

 

 

e) Newspaper publicity shot for Marriage Lines from Daily Express or Mirror 

 

 

 

f) Photo from the Mary Evans picture library. This is a combination of three different versions of the same photo, but with different watermarks, merged together from the Diomedia website, the Profimedia website
and the Tipsimages website, remnants of watermarks still exist. (early to mid 1960s)

 

 

 

 

 

g) Christine Finn (1960s?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

h) Publicity photo from the time of Thunderbirds. mid 1960s from "The Complete Book of Thunderbirds," by Chris Bentley (2003)

 

 

i) Landen Dinsdale and Christine Finn in rehearsals for The Gentle Avalanche, 11th November 1963

 

 

 

 

j) English actress Christine Finn starring in 'The Gentle Avalanche', UK, 12th November 1963.
(Photo by McCabe/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 

 

 

 

 

 

k) The Grass Is Greener, King's Theatre, Glasgow. 21st March 1960, starring Hugh Williams, Moray Watson, Rachel Gurney, Philip Friend and Christine Finn.  Source: http://www.heraldscotland.com (Obituary for Moray_Watson)

 

 

 

 

l,i) A Country Party At The Old Rectory;
Many friends travelled out of town to Stanford Rivers, Essex, where Mr. and Mrs  Richard Armitage gave a delightful At Home at their new residence, The Old Rectory. Above (well here below), Mr. Bob  Harvey entertained the company with songs at the piano. The Tatler and Bystander, July 15, 1955

 

 

 

 

 

l.ii) Christine Finn with Mr and Mrs Julian Moore. The Tatler and Bystander, July 15, 1955

 

 

 

 

 

 

m) Members of the Birmingham Rep Company come to see one of their number married. They are (left to right) Miss Christine Finn, Miss Rosalind Boxall, Miss Patricia Heneghan and Miss Barbara Burke.

The company are in London for two weeks to play at the Old Vic Theatre. For their first performance of "King Henry VI, Part 3" they took thirteen curtain calls. (Birmingham Gazette, Wednesday, July 23rd , 1952) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

detail from above

 

 

 

 n) Christine Finn from the Sunday Pictorial December 31 1958 publicising Quatermass And The Pit

 

 

 

 

o.i) Actresses Ann Firbank (left) And Christine Finn Who Play The Daughters Of Artist Thomas Gainsborough In A Play By Cecil Beaton. 8th September 1959 (source: https://www.shutterstock.com/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

o.ii) Sir Donald Wolfit as Artist Thomas Gainsborough with actresses Ann Firbank (lower right) and Christine Finn  (upper right) who play his Daughters in the play Landscape with Fgures by Cecil Beaton (Source : https://filmsofthefifties.com/samantha-eggar-on-sir-donald-wolfit/

 

 

p) 30th December 1960 (Source: https://www.shutterstock.com/)

  

 

q)  Photo from the program for The Circle at The Savoy Theatre, 1965

 

 

 

 

r) "Comedie Francaise in London Christine Finn. of the Old Vic Company. pours a glass of champagne for Micheline Boudet, of the Comedic Francaise, for a toast in London yesterday after the French company's arrival. It began a three-week season ... " Publishedin  Birmingham Daily Post  Tuesday 17 March 1959 (source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/)

 

 "Undated picture shows French Actress Micheline Boudet (L) reacting while holding a glass next to Christine Finn of the Old Vic Company at the Comedie Francaise in Paris." (source: https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/undated-picture-shows-french-actress-micheline-boudet-news-photo/1241759294)

 

 

s) Christine Finn in the country, leaning against a haystack.
From the Liverpool Echo and Evening Express Monday March 14 1966