
Albert Finney
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 5 years ago |
Date of died | February 7,2019 |
Died | The Royal Marsden Hospital |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Date of birth | May 9,1936 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Salford |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Pene Delmage |
Anouk Aimée | |
Jane Wenham | |
Height | 175 (cm) |
Job | Singer |
Film director | |
Voice acting | |
Film Producer | |
Children | Simon Finney |
Parents | Alice Hobson |
Albert Finney, Sr. | |
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 405126 |
Big Fish
Erin Brockovich
Annie
Skyfall
Tom Jones
Miller's Crossing
Two for the Road
Gumshoe
A Good Year
The Bourne Ultimatum
Traffic
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Wolfen
Corpse Bride
The Bourne Legacy
Shoot the Moon
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Dresser
Charlie Bubbles
The Browning Version
The Duellists
The Entertainer
Looker
Under the Volcano
A Rather English Marriage
A Man of No Importance
Breakfast of Champions
Washington Square
Loophole
Rich in Love
Cold Lazarus
The Picasso Summer
Delivering Milo
The Playboys
Simpatico
My Uncle Silas
Endless Game
Karaoke
Night Must Fall
The Run of the Country
The Victors
The Biko Inquest
Pope John Paul II
Nostromo
Emergency – Ward 10
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
O Lucky Man!
Amazing Grace
The Gathering Storm
Murder on the Orient Express
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie
Silver Bear for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor
BAFTA Fellowship
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance
Albert Finney Life story
Albert Finney 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, directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre.
Albert Finney s Early Life and Career
Albert fineny was born in 1936 in salford. Lancashire. England. To alice and albert finney sr. His father was a bookmaker and his mother was a shopkeeper. Finney attended salford grammar school and thne went on to the royal academy of dramatic art in london. He began his career as a stage actor and made his broadway debut in 1959 in the entertainer. For which he won the tony award.Albert Finney s Film and Television Roles
Finney oson moved into film and television. Appearing in several british films throughout the 1960s. He amde his breakthrough in the 1963 classic tom jones. For which he was nominatde for an academy award for best actor. Finney went on to star in filsm such as murder on the orient express (1974). The dresser (1983). And erin brockovich (2000). And also starred in television series such as a rather english marriage (1998). He received four academy award nominations and one golden globe nomination in his career.Albert Finney s Later Career
In the late 2000s. Finney retired from acting and began to focus on driecting. He directed the film uncle vanya (2009) and was the artistic director of the manchester royal exchange theatre company. Finney was knighted in the queen s 2012 birthday honours for services to drama.Albert Finney s Personal Life
Finney was married there times: to jane wenham from 1957 to 1961. To anouk aieme from 1970 to 1978. And to pene delmage from 2006 until his death in 2019. He had one son. Simon. With wenham and one daughter. Martha. With delmage.Awards and Honours Received by Albert Finney
Finney was awarded a bafta fellowship in 2001 and three bafta awards for best actro (tom jones. Murder on the orient express. And sunday bloody sunday). He was also nominated for four acadeym awards for best actor. One golden globe award for best actor. And a tony award for best acotr.Important Event in Albert Finney s Career
One of the most important events in albert finney s career was his star-making performance as the title character in tom jones (1963). The film was a critical and commercial success. And finney s performance was widely praised. He was nominated for an academy award for best actro. Marking the begnining of his successful film career.Interesting Fact About Albert Finney
An interesting fact abuot albret finney is that he was an accomplished painter. He studied painting at the royal academy of dramatic art and often used painting as a way to relax between takes on film and televiison sets. Finney s work was exhibited in london. New york. And los angeles.The memory of the art and entertainment figures we lost in the year 2019

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Finney: From transforming British theatre to Hollywood star
Albert Finney , who, 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.
He switched effortlessly between blustering roles, such as when he played Winston Churchill , and performances of great wit, charm and elegance.
Powerfully built, he had the resonant voice beloved of earlier generations of stage Actors .
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was one of The First kitchen-sink dramasAlbert Finney was born in Salford, Lancashire on 9 May 1936.
His father, known as "Honest Albert", ran a bookmaking business and Finney never abandoned his working-class roots.
"It's part of you," he later said. "It's in The Blood really.
Finney acquired a taste for acting while studying at Salford Grammar School and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
He worked first with Birmingham Repertory Theatre before Moving On to the Old Vic and National Theatre .
"I was Dead Lucky ," Finney recalled. "It was one of the leading reps in the country. "
His first London stage appearance was in 1958 in Jane Arden 's The Party , which was directed by Charles Laughton , who also starred.
Social alienationA year later, the young Finney was at Stratford where he replaced an ill Laurence Olivier in The Role of Coriolanus.
In 1960, he appeared alongside Olivier in his first film, The Entertainer , directed by Tony Richardson .
Based on a play by John Osborne , it was an example of a new gritty style of British film-making that became known as kitchen-sink drama.
Tom Jones made Finney an international starIts heroes were invariably working-class, the backdrops often that of northern England, and it explored themes of social alienation.
Finney's next film, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, gave him a starring role as a young factory worker who was disillusioned with his lot.
The plot, based on a Novel by Alan Sillitoe , featured extramarital sex and abortion, earning it an X-certificate from The British Board of Film Censors.
"I remember, in terms of the sex," Finney told The Guardian in 1982, "there were great discussions because The Law then was you had to have one foot on The Floor . "
International starIt also earned Finney The First of 13 Bafta nominations, this one for best British actor.
He was approached to play Lawrence of Arabia in David Lean 's film but, after going through a four-day screen test, Finney decided not to take The Role that eventually went to Peter O'Toole.
Instead, he teamed up with Tony Richardson again for Tom Jones , an adaptation of Henry Fielding 's bawdy 18Th Century Novel .
Scrooge proved he could sing as well as actThe film, which had an all-star cast, received 10 Oscar nominations, including one for Finney as best actor. In The Event , he did not win, although the film did get four statuettes, including best picture.
Tom Jones made Finney an international star and he was voted one of The Top ten British Actors of 1963 by cinema owners.
But he refused to abandon the theatre. There was a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the title role of John Osborne 's Luther, and another for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.
He also appeared in performances of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.
TypecastIn the 1967 film Charlie Bubbles , which Finney also directed, he played a writer returning to his northern roots after becoming successful in London.
In one scene, Finney's character is pictured driving his gold Rolls Royce through the crumbling streets of his native Salford.
He also proved he could sing, First In the title role of the 1970 musical film Scrooge And Then in the 1982 film version of The Broadway musical Annie .
The Dresser paired him with Tom CourtenayIn 1974, he played the pedantic Hercule Poirot in the film Murder on the Orient Express .
Finney later complained that he was typecast in The Role . "People do think I weigh 300lb with a French accent. "
Later he began to specialise in more ebullient characters. There was The Fading actor-manager in The Dresser , opposite Tom Courtenay , which gained him another Oscar nomination.
He also received nominations for Under the Volcano in 1984 and the 2000 film Erin Brockovich , although he never actually received a gold statuette or attended the awards ceremony.
Powerful presence"It's a long way to go for a party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink," he declared. "It's a waste of time. "
There was a live appearance as The Judge in Roger Waters ' performance of Pink Floyd 's The Wall in Berlin In July 1990.
Finney turned in a powerful portrayal of Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC production The Gathering Storm, which won him awards including a Bafta and an Emmy .
He was a memorable Churchill in The Gathering StormHe had a magnetic presence off screen too. His lovers included Joan Baez , Carly Simon , Billie Whitelaw , Jacqueline Bisset , Shelley Winters and Diana Quick .
In 1957, he married Jane Wenham , with whom he had A Son . The couple divorced just five years later. In 1970, he married the French actress Anouk Aimee .
Later in life, he settled down with Penne Delmarche and admitted to only two vices - Wine and horseracing. He owned several racehorses, stabled In America .
"I'm a born flirt and that will never stop, but I would take things no further. I Am loyal and content. "
He had kidney cancer diagnosed in 2007, and he disappeared from public view, but returned with roles in The Bourne Ultimatum and James Bond film Skyfall.
Together with Actors such as Courtenay, O'Toole and Alan Bates , Albert Finney helped transform The Face of British Theatre and cinema during its renaissance in the 1960s.
He largely ignored the celebrity lifestyle and refused becoming CBE in 1980 and a knight in 2000.
"I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery," he said at the time. "And it also helps keep us 'quaint', which I'm not a great fan of. "
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