Albert Finney

Known for ActingBorn 1936-05-09Died 2019-02-07Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Notes from Under the Volcano

My Uncle Silas

Schitt's Creek

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

Big Fish

Corpse Bride

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

The Bourne Ultimatum

Erin Brockovich

Skyfall

Pope John Paul II

Miller's Crossing

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Traffic

The Duellists

Vito

Screen Two

Amazing Grace

The Green Man

Murder on the Orient Express

The Biko Inquest

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical

Cold Lazarus

A Good Year

if....

The Gathering Storm

Two for the Road

Karaoke

Nostromo

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Ocean's Twelve

The Dresser

O Lucky Man!

Jason Bourne

Scrooge

ABC Stage 67

The Picasso Summer

Under the Volcano

Annie

The Browning Version

The Bourne Legacy

The Run of the Country

Rich in Love

Charlie Bubbles

The Playboys

The Endless Game

Washington Square