Frank Finlay
Frank Finlay (born August 6, 1926, Farnworth, United Kingdom; died 2016), was a British actor. Finlay's honours include Commander of the Order of the British Empire and British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.
Frank Finlay’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank Finlay’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1926, Frank came 12th among boys and 744th among girls, carried by 14,493 American boys and 93 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Frank apart
Frank Finlay took the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1974, at 48.
Training came by way of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
The working life starts in 1958, at 32.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.
Frank Finlay was raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Frank Finlay: Actors from Farnworth, Trustees of the British Museum and People from Shepperton.
Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Awards
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor (1974)
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture and British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1958
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Frank is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Frank is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Frank needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Frank gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Frank creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Frank is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Frank is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Frank is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Frank Finlay
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Farnworth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Farnworth that night
Computed for 53.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Farnworth at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 6.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
At 53.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Farnworth at all: they sit past the −36.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 0° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Farnworth, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Weybridge, Elmbridge in 2016.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank Finlay: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Frank Finlay at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Frank Finlay's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Frank Finlay was born on August 6, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Frank Finlay's birth date, August 6, 1926, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank Finlay's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Frank Finlay combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.3° orb
Frank’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
Frank’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Frank’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.9° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 2°10′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 20°52′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 5°09′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°22′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.6°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Eros trine Mars 2.4°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
7 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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Other Radiant Architects
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Frank’s cards
Computed from August 6, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q738521 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by International Video Service, San Francisco Film, Selenia Cinematografica, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frank Finlay at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frank Finlay.
Quick answers about Frank Finlay’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank Finlay?
- Frank Finlay was a Leo: born August 6, 1926, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Frank Finlay's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1926 birth.
- What was Frank Finlay's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank Finlay's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank Finlay's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank Finlay's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
