Known For
Acting
Born
May 09, 1936
Died
Feb 07, 2019
Place of Birth
Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Credits
78 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Jason Bourne
Dr. Albert Hirsch (archive footage) (uncredited)
Uncovering Wolfen
Self (archive footage)
Schitt's Creek
Ed Masry (voice)
Skyfall
Kincade
The Bourne Legacy
Dr. Albert Hirsch
Vito
Self (archive)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Charles Hanson
The Bourne Ultimatum
Dr. Albert Hirsch
Amazing Grace
John Newton
A Good Year
Henry Skinner
Corpse Bride
Finis Everglot (voice)
Ocean's Twelve
Gaspar LeMarc (uncredited)
Big Fish
Ed Bloom (senior)
The Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill
My Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas
Delivering Milo
Elmore Dahl
Traffic
Chief of Staff
Erin Brockovich
Ed Masry
Simpatico
Simms
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout
A Rather English Marriage
Reggie Conyngham-Jervis
Washington Square
Dr. Austin Sloper
Nostromo
Dr. Monygham
Cold Lazarus
Daniel Feeld
Karaoke
Daniel Feeld
The Run of the Country
Danny's Father
A Man of No Importance
Alfred Byrne
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Rich in Love
Warren Odom
The Playboys
Constable Brendan Hegarty
The Green Man
Maurice
Miller's Crossing
Leo
Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
Self - Vocals
The Image
Jason Cromwell
The Endless Game
Alec Hillsden
The Endless Game
Alec Hillsden
Orphans
Harold
A Simple Man
Self - Introduction
Screen Two
Alfred Byrne
The Biko Inquest
Sidney Kentridge
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
Under the Volcano
Geoffrey Firmin
Pope John Paul II
Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II
The Dresser
Sir
Annie
'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Self / Daddy Warbucks
Shoot the Moon
George Dunlap
Looker
Dr. Larry Roberts