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Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for movie acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre.
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was a British actor. [1] His career lasted 60 years. Finney was mostly known for his role in Tom Jones, for his role as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express and for his role as Edward Bloom in Big Fish.
Actor: Murder on the Orient Express. The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare.
Albert Finney. Actor: Murder on the Orient Express. The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates.
Oscar-nominated British actor Albert Finney has died aged 82 after a short illness. He was a five-time Oscar nominee who began his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company before making his mark...
Albert Finney, English actor of stage and screen noted for his versatility. Among his most notable films were Billy Liar (1960), Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), Under the Volcano (1984), Erin Brockovich (2000), and Big Fish (2003).
LONDON — Albert Finney, the British stage and film actor who defined an era’s rage and frustration in dramas of blue-collar realism and social revolt and went on to find stardom in Hollywood,...
It is directed by Tony Richardson from a screenplay written by John Osborne, and stars Albert Finney as the titular character. The cast also features Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento, and David Warner in his film debut.
Albert Finney (9 Mey 1936 – 7 Februar 2019) wis an Inglis actor that wirkit in film, telly an theatre.
Albert Finney, who has died at the age of 82, came to prominence in the era of the "Angry Young Men". It was a period that transformed the face of British theatre and cinema from the mid-1950s.
The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney), who is asked to investigate the murder of an American business tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Albert Finney obituary: an icon who stayed true. The talismanic young star of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning never lost touch with his roots, or indeed the youth in all of us, and was gracious a collaborator as he was graceful an actor. 9 May 1936–7 February 2019. Updated: 13 February 2019.
An appreciation of five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney who played everything from an amorous rogue in Tom Jones to Pope John Paul II. He died Thursday at 82.
Albert Finney: 1936-2019. Dan Callahan. February 8, 2019. 6 min read. The restless Albert Finney first made an impression in “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” (1960), where he played a rebellious and fed-up factory worker who says, “What I’m out for is a good time … all the rest is propaganda.”
British actor Albert Finney, the Academy Award-nominated star of films from Tom Jones to Skyfall, has died at the age of 82. Finney's family said Friday that he "passed away peacefully after a...
Albert Finney, who died Thursday at the age of 82, was an actor of rare versatility, convincing as gruff, refined, lovable and unforgiving, yet always bringing to each role a remarkable and...
Albert Finney, one of the most respected and versatile actors of his generation and the star of films as diverse as “Tom Jones” and “Skyfall,” has died. He was 82.
Albert Finney, the Oscar-nominated British actor best known for his roles in “Annie,” “Erin Brockovich” and “Tom Jones,” has died after a short illness, according to representatives of his...
Scrooge is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol.It was filmed in London between January and May 1970 and directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge.The film's score was composed by Leslie Bricusse and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser.. The film was a follow-up to another Dickens musical adaptation, 1968's award-winning ...
Finney, along with Olivier, O'Toole, Hopkins and Burton are the top five movie actors from Great Britain, but this group ranks toward the top in the all time list as well. Finney has created some truly indelible characterizations on screen over his remarkable career.
The actor was Oscar-nominated for his role as lawyer Ed Masry in Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich in 2000. He lost out to Michael Caine, but his co-star Julia Roberts took home the award for ...
Albert Finney was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for movie acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre.
Albert Finney, one of the leading actors of the postwar period, died Thursday in London from a chest infection. He was 82 and had been battling cancer. The robust British performer began as a...