Where to watch James Finlayson in the UK
Find every James Finlayson film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 20 September 2026.
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.
James Finlayson films streaming in the UK
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- Foreign Correspondent (1940) as Dutch Peasant (uncredited)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942) as Scottish Farmer with Mustache (uncredited)
- Bonnie Scotland (1935) as Sgt. Maj. Finlayson
- The Flying Deuces (1939) as Jailor
- Royal Wedding (1951) as Cabby (uncredited)
- Our Wife (1931) as Father of the bride (uncredited)
- The Devil's Brother (1933) as Lord Rocburg
- Way Out West (1937) as Mickey Finn
- Block-Heads (1938) as Man on Stairs
- Saps at Sea (1940) as Dr. J.H. Finlayson (uncredited)
- Playing at Politics (1931) as Criado
- Pardon Us (1931) as Schoolteacher
- The Bohemian Girl (1936) as Captain Finn
- A Chump at Oxford (1940) as Baldy Vandevere (uncredited)
- Angel (1937) as Barker's 2nd Butler (uncredited)
- Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) as General
- The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) as Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)
- Our Relations (1936) as Finn
- She-Wolf of London (1946) as Constable (uncredited)
- Scorching Sands (1923) as James
- Married Life (1920) as Man Who Made Good
- The Perils of Pauline (1947) as Comic Chef
- Newly Rich (1922) Cast
- Wife Tamers (1926) as The Waiter
- The Toast of New York (1937) as Trick-Hat Inventor (uncredited)
- The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981) as Keystone Kop (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Down on the Farm (1920) as The Sportive Banker with the Mortgage
- White Wings (1923) as Dental Patient
- Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) as Keystone Cop
- Sure-Mike! (1925) as The Floorwalker
- Dick Turpin (1933) as Jeremy
- Sugar Daddies (1927) as Oil tycoon Cyrus Brittle
- The Dawn Patrol (1930) as Field Sergeant
- Two Sisters from Boston (1946) as Street Cleaner (uncredited)
- Call of the Cuckoo (1927) as Asylum Inmate
- Wedding Yells (1942) as Hammerhead Nahl
- Hard Boiled (1925) Cast
- Do Detectives Think? (1927) as Judge Foozle (uncredited)
- Hollywood (1923) as James Finlayson
- The Second 100 Years (1927) as Browne Van Dyke
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Most-watched James Finlayson films currently: Foreign Correspondent (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bonnie Scotland (1935), The Flying Deuces (1939), Royal Wedding (1951).
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