Albert Finney

Known for ActingBorn 1936-05-09Died 2019-02-07Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Albert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (also 1960), Tom Jones (1963), Two for the Road (1967), Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), The Dresser (1983), Miller's Crossing (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), Erin Brockovich (2000), Big Fish (2003), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012). A recipient of BAFTA , Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards, Finney was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984), and as Best Supporting Actor for Erin Brockovich (2000). He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical film The Gathering Storm.Read more

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Tim Burton: Life in the Line

Notes from Under the Volcano

My Uncle Silas

Schitt's Creek

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

Big Fish

Corpse Bride

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

The Bourne Ultimatum

Erin Brockovich

Skyfall

Miller's Crossing

Pope John Paul II

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Vito

Traffic

The Duellists

Amazing Grace

Screen Two

The Green Man

Murder on the Orient Express

Cold Lazarus

The Biko Inquest

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical

Karaoke

A Good Year

The Gathering Storm

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Two for the Road

Nostromo

The Dresser

Ocean's Twelve

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

O Lucky Man!

Scrooge

The Picasso Summer

ABC Stage 67

Under the Volcano

The Bourne Legacy

The Run of the Country

The Browning Version

Annie

Rich in Love

Charlie Bubbles

The Endless Game

Washington Square

A Man of No Importance