Finney guest starred on several episodes of Emergency-Ward 10 and was Lysander in a TV version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959) directed by Peter Hall.įinney's first film appearance was in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (1960), with Laurence Olivier. In 1959 Finney appeared at Stratford in the title role in Coriolanus, replacing an ill Laurence Olivier. At Birmingham he played the title role in Henry V, and in 1958, made his London stage debut in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester. Also for the BBC he appeared in The Claverdon Road Job (1957) and View Friendship and Marriage (1958). He was in a production of The Miser for Birmingham Rep, which was filmed for the BBC in 1956. Finney was offered a contract by the Rank Organisation but turned it down to perform for the Birmingham Rep. Finney graduated from RADA and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other members of the cast included Roy Kinnear and Richard Briers. The BBC filmed and broadcast the RADA students' performances at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London on Friday 6 January 1956. While at RADA Finney made an early TV appearance playing Mr Hardcastle in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. He was educated at Tootal Drive Primary School, Salford Grammar School, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from which he graduated in 1956. He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC– HBO television biographical film The Gathering Storm.įinney was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of Alice (née Hobson) and Albert Finney, a bookmaker. ![]() He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (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), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012).Ī recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Silver Bear and Volpi Cup 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 maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. 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. Albert Finney ( – 7 February 2019) was an English actor.
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