- Films
- 32
- Avg rating
- 6.91
- Peak run
- 1939’42
- 7+ run
- 4 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
James by the numbers
Average
6.91
22 rated films
Vote weighted
6.95
bigger films count more
Median
7.0
half are better
Consistency
±0.57
rating spread
Career
47y
1919 to 1965
Total votes
155K
across every film
Best
8.1
To Be or Not to Be
Worst
6.7
The Flying Deuces
Newest first
Filmography
| 1965 | Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's | · | · | 413 |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | · | · | 475 |
| 1960 | When Comedy Was King | · | · | 386 |
| 1951 | Here Comes the Groom | · | 6.3 | 1,285 |
| 1951 |  Royal Wedding | · | 6.7 | 6,755 |
| 1949 | Challenge to Lassie | · | · | 710 |
| 1947 | The Perils of Pauline | · | 6.4 | 1,355 |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston | · | · | 789 |
| 1946 | She-Wolf of London | · | 5.3 | 3,584 |
| 1942 |  To Be or Not to Be | · | 8.1 | 50,474 |
| 1940 |  Foreign Correspondent | · | 7.4 | 26,503 |
| 1940 | Saps at Sea | Dr. J.H. Finlayson | 7.1 | 3,447 |
| 1940 | A Chump at Oxford | · | 7.2 | 4,775 |
| 1939 | The Great Victor Herbert | · | · | 145 |
| 1939 |  The Flying Deuces | Jailor | 6.7 | 6,363 |
| 1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | · | · | 517 |
| 1938 | Carefree | · | 6.9 | 4,716 |
| 1938 |  Block-Heads | Finn - Man on Stairs | 7.5 | 5,046 |
| 1937 | Angel | · | 7.2 | 3,862 |
| 1937 | The Toast of New York | · | 6.3 | 1,292 |
Better together?
James Finlayson's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: James Finlayson and Stan Laurel movies · Oliver Hardy and James Finlayson movies
Takes
On James Finlayson
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