
James Finlayson
Born: 1887-08-26 in Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the most famous comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.
Rated Filmography (149)
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Thundering Landlords
1925

A Punch in the Nose
1926

Jack Frost
1923

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928

Don't Tell Everything
1927

In Dutch
1918

Lady Be Good
1928

Flaming Flappers
1925

Manhattan Monkey Business
1935

Dance of the Cookoos
1982

Hollywood
1923

Dick Turpin
1933

Two Weeks Off
1929

A Tough Winter
1923

Married Life
1920

Fast Freight
1929

Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
2002

Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926

Hard Boiled
1925

Merry Widower
1926

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
1923

Pitfalls of a Big City
1923

Hard Knocks and Love Taps
1921

Show Girl
1928

California or Bust
1923

The Noon Whistle
1923

One of the Smiths
1931

His Silent Racket
1933

One Hour Married
1927

Love, Honor and Behave
1920

Bachelor’s Paradise
1928

To Be or Not to Be
1942

Hasty Marriage
1931

The Nickel-Hopper
1926

Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943

Night Owls
1930

Thicker Than Water
1935

No Man's Law
1927

Pick and Shovel
1923

Mary, Queen of Tots
1925

White Wings
1923

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964

Our Wife
1931

Thieves
1930

Seeing the World
1927

Way Out West
1937

Our Relations
1936

She Sighed by the Seaside
1921

The Haunted Honeymoon
1925

The Crossroads of New York
1922

Wife Tamers
1926

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967

The Whole Truth
1923

Thunder Below
1932

Courtship of Miles Sandwich
1923

Young Eagles
1930

Innocent Husbands
1925

Playing at Politics
1931

Sure-Mike!
1925

Hard to Get
1929

Trying to Get Along
1919

Foreign Correspondent
1940

Brothers Under the Chin
1924

Wall Street
1929

Welcome Home
1925

Galloping Ghosts
1928

The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981

Block-Heads
1938

Another Fine Mess
1930

One Good Turn
1931

Liberty
1929

A Chump at Oxford
1940

Men O' War
1929

Saps at Sea
1940

Sold at Auction!
1923

Pack Up Your Troubles
1932

The Hoose-Gow
1929

The Devil's Brother
1933

Anything Once!
1927

A Small Town Idol
1921

Dollar Dizzy
1930

Angel
1937

The Perils of Pauline
1947

Near Dublin
1924

Big Business
1929

Bonnie Scotland
1935

Chickens Come Home
1931

The Dawn Patrol
1930

Hats Off
1927

Yanks Ahoy
1943

Mush and Milk
1933

The Chimp
1932

Unfriendly Enemies
1925

Nature in the Wrong
1933

Me and My Pal
1933

Chasing the Chaser
1925

Should Tall Men Marry?
1928

Madame Mystery
1926

Jus' Passin' Through
1923

Pardon Us
1931

All Over Town
1937

Do Detectives Think?
1927

Royal Wedding
1951

The Flying Deuces
1939

Don't Weaken!
1920

Wide Open Spaces
1924

Two Sisters from Boston
1946

The Second 100 Years
1927

Raggedy Rose
1926

Postage Due
1924

Hollywood Cavalcade
1939

The Bohemian Girl
1936

The Toast of New York
1937

Raffles
1939

With Love and Hisses
1927

Sugar Daddies
1927

A Man About Town
1923

Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931

Thundering Fleas
1926

Flying Elephants
1928

Scorching Sands
1923

Moonlight and Noses
1925

Call of the Cuckoo
1927

Down on the Farm
1920

Zeb vs. Paprika
1924

Roughest Africa
1923

Smithy
1924

Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919

Love 'Em and Weep
1927

Frozen Hearts
1923

Mother's Joy
1923

Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
1926

Grand Canyon Trail
1948

For the Defense
1930

Rupert of Hee-Haw
1924

She-Wolf of London
1946

Oranges and Lemons
1923

The Soilers
1923

The Great Victor Herbert
1939

So This Is Harris!
1933

Short Kilts
1924

Forgotten Sweeties
1927

Yes, Yes, Nanette
1925

Pick a Star
1937

What's the World Coming To?
1926

Madame Sans Jane
1925

The Gay Nighties
1933

The Caretaker's Daughter
1925

Dizzy Daddies
1926