Albert Finney
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Finney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2015 · Uncovering Wolfen as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Schitt's Creek as Ed Masry (voice)
- 2012 · Skyfall as Kincade
- 2012 · The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Albert Hirsch
- 2007 · Before the Devil Knows You're Dead as Charles Hanson
- 2007 · The Bourne Ultimatum as Dr. Albert Hirsch
- 2006 · Amazing Grace as John Newton
- 2006 · A Good Year as Henry Skinner
- 2005 · Corpse Bride as Finis Everglot (voice)
- 2004 · Ocean's Twelve as Gaspar LeMarc (uncredited)
- 2003 · Big Fish as Ed Bloom (senior)
- 2002 · The Gathering Storm as Winston Churchill
- 2001 · My Uncle Silas as Uncle Silas
- 2001 · Delivering Milo as Elmore Dahl
- 2000 · Traffic as Chief of Staff
- 2000 · Erin Brockovich as Ed Masry
- 1999 · Simpatico as Simms
- 1999 · Breakfast of Champions as Kilgore Trout
- 1998 · A Rather English Marriage as Reggie Conyngham-Jervis
- 1997 · Washington Square as Dr. Austin Sloper
- 1997 · Nostromo as Dr. Monygham
- 1996 · Cold Lazarus as Daniel Feeld
- 1996 · Karaoke as Daniel Feeld
- 1995 · The Run of the Country as Danny's Father
- 1994 · A Man of No Importance as Alfred Byrne
- 1994 · The Browning Version as Andrew Crocker-Harris
- 1993 · Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 · Rich in Love as Warren Odom
- 1992 · The Playboys as Constable Brendan Hegarty
- 1990 · The Green Man as Maurice
- 1990 · Miller's Crossing as Leo
- 1990 · Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin as Self - Vocals
- 1990 · The Image as Jason Cromwell
- 1989 · The Endless Game as Alec Hillsden
- 1987 · Orphans as Harold
- 1984 · The Biko Inquest as Sidney Kentridge
- 1984 · Notes from Under the Volcano as Self
- 1984 · Observations Under the Volcano as Self
- 1984 · Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin
- 1984 · Pope John Paul II as Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II
- 1983 · The Dresser as Sir
- 1982 · Annie as 'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks
- 1982 · Lights, Camera, Annie! as Self / Daddy Warbucks
- 1982 · Shoot the Moon as George Dunlap
- 1981 · Looker as Dr. Larry Roberts
- 1981 · Wolfen as Dewey Wilson
- 1981 · Loophole as Mike Daniels
- 1977 · The Duellists as Joseph Fouché
- 1976 · Alpha Beta as Frank Elliot
- 1975 · The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother as Man in Audience at Opera
- 1974 · Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
- 1971 · Gumshoe as Eddie Ginley
- 1970 · Scrooge as Ebenezer Scrooge
- 1969 · The Picasso Summer as George Smith
- 1968 · Charlie Bubbles as Charlie
- 1967 · Two for the Road as Mark Wallace
- 1966 · ABC Stage 67 as Self
- 1964 · Night Must Fall as Danny
- 1963 · The Victors as Russian Soldier
- 1963 · Tom Jones as Tom Jones
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1960 · Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as Arthur Seaton
- 1960 · The Entertainer as Mick Rice
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self