Albert Finney

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1936-05-09

Deathday 2019-02-07 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Also Known As Альберт Финни

Albert Finney

Biography

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

Actor

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
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
Delivering Milo

as Elmore Dahl

2001
My Uncle Silas

as Uncle Silas

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 Image

as Jason Cromwell

1990
The Green Man

as Maurice

1989
The Endless Game

as Alec Hillsden

1987
Orphans

as Harold

1984
The Biko Inquest

as Sidney Kentridge

1984
Under the Volcano

as Geoffrey Firmin

1984
Pope John Paul II

as Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II

1983
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

1974
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
1963
The Victors

as Russian Soldier

1963
Tom Jones

as Tom Jones

1960
The Entertainer

as Mick Rice

1956
Tony Awards

as Self

Producer

1974
Law and Disorder

as Producer

1973
O Lucky Man!

as Producer

1971
Gumshoe

as Producer

1971
Bleak Moments

as Associate Producer

1970
1968
if....

as Producer

Director

1984
The Biko Inquest

as Director

1968
Charlie Bubbles

as Director