Albert Finney
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person 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. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television.
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), A Good Year (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), and for his performances on stage and television.
A 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 received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical movie The Gathering Storm.
Early lifeEdit
Finney was born on 9 May 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, the youngest of three children and only son of Albert Finney, a bookmaker, and Alice (née Hobson).<ref name=odnb>Billington, Michael. "Finney, Albert (1936–2019), actor", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2023, Template:ODNBsub</ref> 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.<ref name=odnb/>
CareerEdit
1956–1962: Early careerEdit
While at RADA, Finney made an early television appearance playing Mr Hardcastle in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. The BBC filmed and broadcast the RADA students' performances at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London on Friday 6 January 1956. Other members of the cast included Roy Kinnear and Richard Briers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Finney graduated from RADA and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was offered a contract by the Rank Organisation, but refused it to perform for the Birmingham Rep.<ref name="new"/> He was in a production of The Miser for Birmingham Rep, which was filmed for the BBC in 1956. Also for the BBC he appeared in The Claverdon Road Job (1957) and View Friendship and Marriage (1958).
At Birmingham he played the title role of Henry V,<ref>Wife sues Albert Finney, The Guardian 7 July 1961: 19.</ref> and in 1958, 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. In 1959, Finney appeared at Stratford in the title role of Coriolanus, replacing an ill Laurence Olivier.<ref>Laurence Olivier, Confessions of an Actor, Orion, 1994, p. 243</ref> Finney guest featured for several episodes of Emergency-Ward 10 and was Lysander in a TV version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959) directed by Peter Hall.
Finney's first film appearance was in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (1960), with Laurence Olivier. Finney and Alan Bates played Olivier's sons. He made his film breakthrough in the same year with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film version of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), produced by Richardson. The film was a success, being the third most popular movie in Britain that year. It earned more than half a million pounds of profit.<ref name="tino">Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 239</ref> Finney then did Billy Liar (1960) on stage and for British television.<ref name="fin">Finney: A Star Who Hides His Magnitude: Albert Finney, Marks, Sally K. Los Angeles Times 23 April 1967: c11.</ref> Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's production of Lawrence of Arabia after a successful and elaborate screen-test that took four days to shoot. However, Finney baulked at signing a multi-year contract for producer Sam Spiegel and chose to decline the role.<ref>"David Lean" by Stephen M. Silverman (Abrams, New York, 1992)</ref>
Finney created the title role in Luther, the 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther. He performed the role with the English Stage Company in London, Nottingham, Paris and New York.<ref name="Theater: 'Luther' Stars Albert Finney; John Osborne Drama Is at the St. James">Template:Cite news</ref> The original West End run at the Phoenix ended in March 1962, after 239 performances there, when Finney had to quit the cast to fulfil a contractual obligation with a film company.<ref>"Luther to end its run next month", The Times, 16 February 1962, p. 15</ref>
1963–1977Edit
Finney starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones, directed by Richardson and written by Osborne. Due to the success of Tom Jones, British exhibitors voted Finney the ninth most popular film actor in 1963.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Finney received 10% of the film's earnings, which made him over $1 million.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Finney followed this with a small part in ensemble war film The Victors (1963), which was a box-office failure. He then made his Broadway debut in Luther in 1963. When that run ended he decided to take a year off and sail around the world. "People told me to cash in on my success while I was hot," he later said. "I'd been acting for about eight years and had only had one vacation ... Captain Cook had been a hero of mine when I was a kid, and I thought it would be exciting to go to some of the places in the Pacific where he'd been."<ref name="new"/> The success of Tom Jones enabled Finney to produce his next film, Night Must Fall, in 1964, which he also featured in and which was directed by Reisz. A remake of the classic 1937 film of the same title, the film was a failure and Finney's performance received poor reviews.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Finney undertook a season of plays at the Royal National Theatre, including Miss Julie by August Strindberg in 1965.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="guard"/> He continued acting on films with Two for the Road (1967) co-featuring Audrey Hepburn. He and Michael Medwin formed a production company, Memorial Productions, which made Privilege (1967), directed by Peter Watkins; The Burning (1968), a short directed by Stephen Frears; and If.... (1968), directed by Lindsay Anderson. Memorial also did stage productions, such as A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which Finney performed in London and then Broadway.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Memorial also produced some in which Finney did not appear, such as Spring and Port Wine and The Burgular. Memorial then made Charlie Bubbles (1968),<ref>Harding, John. Sweetly Sings Delaney. Greenwich Exchange 2014. www.greenex.co.uk</ref> which Finney featured in and also directed. Liza Minnelli made her feature debut in the movie.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Finney later called it "the most intense sense of creation I've ever had."<ref name="new"/> Finney featured in The Picasso Summer in 1969, and played the title role in the musical Scrooge in 1970.
Finney then made Gumshoe (1971), the first feature film directed by Stephen Frears, for Memorial. Memorial continued to produce films in which Finney did not appear: Spring and Port Wine (1970), with James Mason; Loving Memory (1971), an early directorial effort from Tony Scott; Bleak Moments (1971), the first feature from Mike Leigh; O Lucky Man! (1973) for Anderson; and Law and Disorder (1974); filmed in Hollywood. In 1972, Finney returned to stage after a six-year absence with Alpha Beta, which he later filmed on television with Rachel Roberts.<ref name="guard">Template:Cite news</ref> Memorial Productions stopped producing and Finney emphasized acting. "It was OK at first," he later said, "but in the end it was sitting in an office, pitching ideas to Hollywood and waiting for the phone to ring."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Finney played Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the film Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Finney became so well known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years, "People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent", he said.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Sanders, Dennis and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion: The Complete Guide to Agatha Christie's Life and Work, (1984), pgs. 438–441. Subscription required Template:ISBN</ref> He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He announced he intended to direct the film, The Girl in Melanie Klein, for Memorial, but it was not made.<ref>News of the Screen: ' Sugarland' Team For 'Clearwater' 5 Adaptations Set In Theater Series Finney to Direct Comedy on Lunacy By A. H. Weiler. New York Times 12 May 1974: 49.</ref>
Finney decided to take time off from features and focus on stage acting, doing classics at the National Theatre in London. "I felt that it needed commitment," he later said. "When you're making movies all the time, you stop breathing. You literally don't breathe in the same way that you do when you're playing the classics. When you have to deliver those long, complex speeches on stage, you can't heave your shoulders after every sentence. The set of muscles required for that kind of acting need to be trained. I really wanted to try and do justice to my own potential in the parts. I didn't want to be a movie actor just dropping in, doing Hamlet and taking off again. I wanted to feel part of the company."<ref name="new">Finney comes back to film Farber, Stephen. New York Times 26 July 1981: A.1.</ref>
Finney was at the National for over three yearsTemplate:When during which he played in Hamlet, Macbeth, Tamburlaine, and plays by Anton Chekhov.<ref name="new"/> Finney made a TV film Forget-Me-Not-Lane in 1975, which was written by Peter Nichols, and he also performed a brief role in The Duellists (1977), the first feature directed by Ridley Scott. He also released an album through Motown.<ref>Whither Albert Finney?: From Manchester to Motown Records Christon, Lawrence. Los Angeles Times 18 July 1977: f1.</ref>
1981–1999Edit
Finney had not played a major role in a feature film in six years, and started to think about resuming work with cinema. The last two successful films he had made were Scrooge and Orient Express in which he was heavily disguised. "Most Americans probably think I weigh 300 pounds, have black hair and talk with a French accent like Hercule Poirot," said Finney. "So I thought they should have a look at me while I was still almost a juvenile and kind of cute."<ref name="new"/> Finney decided to make six movies in succession "so that I could relax and get back into it again. In order to feel really assured and comfortable in front of a camera, you've got to do it for a while."<ref name="new"/> The first three were thrillers: Loophole (1981), with Susannah York; Wolfen (1981), directed by Michael Wadleigh; and Looker (1981), written and directed by Michael Crichton.<ref>Albert Finney stages a film comeback, Blume, Mary. Los Angeles Times 19 October 1980: p67.</ref> He received excellent reviews for his performance in the drama Shoot the Moon (1982).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Finney said the role "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."<ref name="new"/>
Less well received was his performance as Daddy Warbucks in the Hollywood film version of Annie (1982), which was directed by John Huston. Finney said doing this movie after Shoot The Moon was "marvelous. I use a completely different side of myself as Warbucks. Annie is show biz; it's open, simple and direct. It needs bold, primary colors. I don't have to reveal the inner workings of the character, and that's a relief."<ref name="new"/>
Finney featured in Peter Yates-directed movie The Dresser (1983) as Sir, a deteriorating veteran actor struggling through a difficult performance of King Lear. He earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He then played the title role for the TV film Pope John Paul II (1984), his American television debut.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Huston cast Finney in the lead role of Under the Volcano (1984), which earned both men great acclaim, including another Best Actor Oscar nomination for Finney.<ref name="Obituary: Albert Finney">Template:Cite news</ref> Finney played the lead role of Sydney Kentridge in The Biko Inquest, a 1984 dramatization of the inquest into the death of Steve Biko which was filmed for television after a London run.<ref name="NYTBiko">Template:Cite news</ref>
Finney performed on stage in Orphans in 1986, and the film version, directed by Alan J. Pakula.<ref>The Albert memorial, Billington, Michael. The Guardian 13 March 1986: 12.</ref> He had the lead in a television miniseries, The Endless Game (1989), written and directed by Bryan Forbes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Finney began the 1990s with the lead role in a film for HBO, The Image (1990). He received great acclaim playing the gangster boss in Miller's Crossing (1990), replacing Trey Wilson shortly before filming. Finney made an appearance at Roger Waters' The Wall – Live in Berlin (1990), where he played "The Judge" during the performance of "The Trial".<ref name="The Trial - Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Finney featured in the BBC TV serial The Green Man, based on the Kingsley Amis novel.<ref name="Dorset On Screen: A Report On The Use Of Dorset As A Film-TV Location For The British Film Centenary 1996">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He followed it with The Playboys (1992) for Gillies MacKinnon; Rich in Love (1993) for Bruce Beresford; The Browning Version (1994) for Mike Figgis; A Man of No Importance (1994), for Suri Krishnamma; and The Run of the Country (1995) for Peter Yates. In 1994, Finney played a gay bus conductor in early 1960s Dublin in A Man of No Importance.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He had the main role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (both 1996). In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Dennis Potter's 'Karaoke' & 'Cold Lazarus' DVD review">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Finney did Nostromo (1997) for television, and Washington Square (1997) for Agnieszka Holland then made A Rather English Marriage (1998) with Tom Courtenay.<ref name="A Rather English Marriage">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He had supporting roles in Breakfast of Champions (1999) and Simpatico (1999).
2000–2019Edit
Finney had his biggest success in several years with Erin Brockovich (2000), alongside Julia Roberts for Steven Soderbergh. His portrayal of real-life California lawyer Edward L. Masry earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his fifth and final Oscar nomination. Finney had a cameo in Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) and played Ernest Hemingway in Hemingway, the Hunter of Death (2001) for TV. He had the main role in Delivering Milo (2001) and in 2002 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.<ref name="Obituary: Albert Finney" /><ref name="'Chicago,' 'Hours' Win Top Golden Globe Awards">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="54th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He also played the title role of the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish but lovable poacher-cum-farm labourer looking after his great-nephew. The show played for two series broadcast in 2001 and 2003.<ref name="Albert Finney: a career in pictures">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> Finney had a major role in Big Fish (2003) directed by Tim Burton, and did another cameo for Soderbergh in Ocean's Twelve (2004). He sang in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)<ref name="Tim Burton's Corpse Bride">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the film of Aspects of Love (2005).
Finney was reunited with Ridley Scott in A Good Year (2006). He had support roles in Amazing Grace (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), which reunited him with Murder on the Orient Express director Sidney Lumet. His final film role was in Skyfall (2012). A lifelong supporter of Manchester United Football Club, Finney narrated the documentary Munich, about the air crash that killed most of the Busby Babes in 1958, which was shown on United's TV channel MUTV in February 2008.<ref>Albert Finney remembers. Timesonline.co.uk. 5 February 2008</ref>
TheatreEdit
He received Tony Award nominations for Luther (1964) and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1968),<ref name="Obituary: Albert Finney" /> and also starred on stage in Love for Love, Strindberg's Miss Julie, Black Comedy, The Country Wife, Alpha Beta, Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Tamburlaine the Great, Another Time and, his last stage appearance, in 1997, "Art" by Yasmina Reza, which preceded the 1998 Tony Award-winning Broadway run.
He won an Olivier Award for Orphans in 1986 and won three Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor.<ref>"Albert Finney: in Character". Quentin Falk. Robson Books. 2002.</ref>
Finney never abandoned stage work and continued his association with the National Theatre Company in London, where he had performed during the mid-1960s in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard during the 1970s at the National Theatre.<ref name="GdnObit">Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal life and deathEdit
In 1957, Finney married actress Jane Wenham; they had a son,<ref name="Obituary: Albert Finney" /> Simon Finney, who works in the movie industry as a camera operator. They divorced in 1961.<ref name="Albert Finney, Chameleon-Like Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 82">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1970, Finney married French actress Nicole Dreyfus ("Anouk Aimée"), a union that lasted eight years. In 2006, he married Penelope Delmage, a travel agent. They remained together until Finney's death.<ref name="Obituary: Albert Finney" /><ref name="Albert Finney, Chameleon-Like Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 82" />
In May 2011, Finney disclosed that he had been receiving treatment for kidney cancer.<ref name="eden">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> According to a 2012 interview, he had been diagnosed with the disease five years earlier and had surgery, followed by six rounds of chemotherapy.<ref name="taylor">Template:Cite news</ref> Finney died of a chest infection at the Royal Marsden Hospital on 7 February 2019; he was 82.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Acting creditsEdit
FilmEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Tooltip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | The Entertainer | Mick Rice | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Arthur Seaton | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Tom Jones | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| The Victors | Russian Soldier | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 1964 | Night Must Fall | Danny | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1967 | Two for the Road | Mark Wallace | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1968 | Charlie Bubbles | Charlie Bubbles | Also director<ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |
| 1969 | The Picasso Summer | George Smith | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1970 | Scrooge | Ebenezer Scrooge | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1971 | Gumshoe | Eddie Ginley | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1973 | Alpha Beta | Frank Elliot | |||
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1975 | The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother | Man in opera audience | Cameo; uncredited | ||
| 1977 | The Duellists | Fouche | <ref name="TV Guide Filmog" /> | ||
| 1981 | Loophole | Mike Daniels | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Wolfen | Detective Dewey Wilson | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| Looker | Dr. Larry Roberts | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 1982 | Shoot the Moon | George Dunlap | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Annie | Oliver 'Daddy' Warbucks | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 1983 | The Dresser | Sir | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1984 | Under the Volcano | Geoffrey Firmin | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1987 | Orphans | Harold | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1990 | Miller's Crossing | Liam 'Leo' O'Bannon | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Roger Waters – The Wall – Live in Berlin | The Judge | <ref name="TV Guide Filmog" /> | |||
| 1992 | The Playboys | Constable Brendan Hegarty | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1993 | Rich in Love | Warren Odom | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1994 | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| A Man of No Importance | Alfred Byrne | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 1995 | The Run of the Country | Danny's Father | |||
| 1997 | Washington Square | Dr. Austin Sloper | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 1999 | Breakfast of Champions | Kilgore Trout | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Simpatico | Simms | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Ed Masry | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Traffic | White House Chief of Staff | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 2001 | Delivering Milo | Elmore Dahl | |||
| 2003 | Big Fish | Edward Bloom Sr. | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| 2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Gaspar LeMarc | Uncredited cameo | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2005 | Corpse Bride | Finis Everglot | Voice | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |
| 2006 | A Good Year | Uncle Henry Skinner | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Amazing Grace | John Newton | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Dr. Albert Hirsch | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Charles Hanson | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | |||
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Dr. Albert Hirsch | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> | ||
| Skyfall | Mr. Kincade | Final film role | <ref name="TCM Filmog" /> |
TelevisionEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Tooltip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Emergency – Ward 10 | Tom Fletcher | 4 episodes | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 1968–1977 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself | 2 episodes | ||
| 1968–1977 | The Merv Griffin Show | ||||
| 1977 | The Mike Douglas Show | 1 episode | |||
| 1982 | Late Night with David Letterman | ||||
| 1984 | Pope John Paul II | Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II | Television movie | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| 1989 | The Endless Game | Agent, Alec Hillsden | TV miniseries; 2 episodes | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| 1990 | The Image | Jason Cromwell | Television movie | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| The Green Man | Maurice Allington | 3 episodes | <ref name="Dorset On Screen: A Report On The Use Of Dorset As A Film-TV Location For The British Film Centenary 1996" /> | ||
| 1996 | Karaoke | Daniel Feeld | 4 episodes | <ref name="Albert Finney - Credits" /> | |
| Cold Lazarus | <ref name="Albert Finney - Credits" /> | ||||
| 1997 | Nostromo | Dr. Monygham | <ref name="Conrad on Film">Template:Cite book</ref> | ||
| 1998 | A Rather English Marriage | Reggie | Television movie | <ref name="A Rather English Marriage" /> | |
| 2001–2003 | My Uncle Silas | Uncle Silas | 9 episodes | <ref name="Albert Finney - Credits" /> | |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | Television movie | <ref name="Obituary: Albert Finney" /> |
StageEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Template:Tooltip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Henry V | King Henry | Birmingham Repertory Theatre | |
| 1957 | The Lizard on the Rock | Malcolm | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 1958 | The Party | Soya | New Theatre | |
| 1959 | Coriolanus | Coriolanus | Royal Shakespeare Theatre | |
| 1961 | Luther | Martin Luther | Royal Court Theatre | |
| 1963 | Luther | Martin Luther | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | <ref name="broadwayworld">Albert Finney Theatre Credits</ref> |
| 1965 | Black Comedy | Harold Gorringe | Old Vic Theatre | |
| 1965 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro | ||
| 1965–1966 | Miss Julie | Jean | <ref>Miss Julie</ref> | |
| 1966 | A Flea in Her Ear | Victor Emmanuel Chandebise | ||
| 1968 | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Bri | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | <ref name="broadwayworld" /> |
| 1976 | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | Royal National Theatre | |
| Tamburlaine | Tamburlaine | |||
| 1978 | The Cherry Orchard | Lopakhin | ||
| 1984 | Serjeant Musgrave's Dance | Serjeant Musgrave | Old Vic Theatre | |
| 1986 | Orphans | Harold | Apollo Theatre | |
| 1996 | 'Art' | Marc | Wyndham's Theatre | <ref>Art Wyndham's Theatre, London</ref> |
Awards and nominationsEdit
Finney declined the offer of a CBE in 1980, as well as a knighthood in 2000. He criticised such honours as "perpetuating snobbery".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Other awardsEdit
Other awards include: a Golden Laurel for his work on Scrooge (1970) and for his work on Tom Jones, for which he was the 3rd Place Winner for the "Top Male Comedy Performance" for 1964. He was honoured by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as Best Actor for Under the Volcano (which he tied with F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus),<ref name="10th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the National Board of Review Best Actor award for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,<ref name="National Board of Review - Best Actor">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor award for Tom Jones.<ref name="Film Critics Vote 'Tom Jones' Best of Year; Finney Named Top Actor for Title Role --'Hud' Honored Finney in 3d Film">Template:Cite news</ref>
Finney won two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, for Erin Brockovich, and as a member of the acting ensemble in the film Traffic. He was also nominated for The Gathering Storm, for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries, but did not win.<ref name="The 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="The 7th Screen Actors Guild Awards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He won the Silver Berlin Bear award for Best Actor, for The Dresser, at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival in 1984.<ref name="Berlinale">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, for Tom Jones, at the Venice Film Festival.<ref name="Venice Film Festival - 1963 Awards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2001, Finney was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for his achievements in film.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Hershman, Gabriel. Strolling Player – The Life and Career of Albert Finney The History Press, 2017, Template:ISBN
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