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Albert Finney
Albert Finney was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for film acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre. He maintained a successful career on stage and screen.
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entertainment · English actor (1936–2019) · film actor · film producer · film director · singer · stage actor · screenwriter · television director · television actor · actor · art collector · also Albert Finney, Albert Finney, Jr., Finney
Born 9 May 1936 · Died 7 February 2019 · Q219546
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2026· 2 entries
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2019· 16 entries
The Guardian: Mike Leigh on Albert Finney: had he not backed me, my career might never have happened
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The Guardian: Albert Finney talks about directing new film, Charlie Bubbles - archive, 12 February 1969
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The Guardian: Charm, booze and devilry: Malcolm McDowell and Mike Figgis on Albert Finney
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The Guardian: Albert Finney on his father, male anxiety and the joys of an actor’s life
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The Guardian: Albert Finney on stage: that indefinable quality called 'weight'
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The Guardian: Albert Finney obituary
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The Guardian: Albert Finney, legendary star of Tom Jones and Miller's Crossing, dies aged 82
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The Guardian: A look back at Albert Finney's most memorable performances – video
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The Guardian: Albert Finney: the most almighty physical screen presence | Peter Bradshaw
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The Guardian: Albert Finney: a career in clips from Tom Jones to Miller's Crossing
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Los Angeles Times: Albert Finney saluted as actor’s actor and giant of stage and screen
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The Washington Post: Albert Finney, whose bawdy role in ‘Tom Jones’ earned him the first of five Oscar nominations, dies at 82
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Died 2019-02-07.
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“Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.”
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“It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.”
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“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”
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2006· 1 entry
Married Penelope Delmage, a travel agent
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2003· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for The Gathering Storm (2003).
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Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for The Gathering Storm (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Gathering Storm (2002).
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His critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Emmy and Golden Globe awards as Best Actor
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Erin Brockovich (2001).
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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2001).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Traffic (2001).
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Finney was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for his achievements in film
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1997· 1 entry
"Art" by Yasmina Reza, which preceded the 1998 Tony Award-winning Broadway run
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1994· 1 entry
Finney played a gay bus conductor in early 1960s Dublin in A Man of No Importance
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor (1986).
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And won three Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor
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And the film version, directed by Alan J
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year for Under the Volcano (1984).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Under the Volcano (1984).
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Earned Silver Bear (1984).
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1982· 3 entries
“required personal acting; I had to dig into myself. When you have to expose yourself and use your own vulnerability, you can get a little near the edge.”
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“there were great discussions because the law then was you had to have one foot on the floor.”
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“marvelous. I use a completely different side of myself as Warbucks. Annie is show biz; it”
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1975· 1 entry
Which was written by Peter Nichols, and he also performed a brief role in The Duellists (1977), the first feature directed by Ridley Scott
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1972· 1 entry
Finney returned to stage after a six-year absence with Alpha Beta, which he later filmed on television with Rachel Roberts
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1970· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Scrooge (1970).
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Finney married French actress Anouk Aimée, a union that lasted eight years
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1969· 1 entry
And played the title role in the musical Scrooge in 1970
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1964· 1 entry
Which he also featured in and which was directed by Reisz
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1963· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor (1963).
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961).
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1959· 1 entry
Finney appeared at Stratford in the title role of Coriolanus, replacing an ill Laurence Olivier
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1958· 2 entries
Made his London stage debut in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who featured in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester
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Which was shown on United's TV channel MUTV in February 2008
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1957· 1 entry
Finney married actress Jane Wenham; they had a son, Simon Finney, who works in the movie industry as a camera operator
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1956).
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-05-09.
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