Albert Finney was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Tom Jones, Two for the Road, Scrooge, Annie, The Dresser, Miller’s Crossing, A Man of No Importance, Erin Brockovich, Big Fish, The Bourne Ultimatum, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and Skyfall. He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical film The Gathering Storm.
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Albert Finney was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Tom Jones, Two for the Road, Scrooge, Annie, The Dresser, Miller’s Crossing, A Man of No Importance, Erin Brockovich, Big Fish, The Bourne Ultimatum, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and Skyfall. He was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express, The dresser and Under the Volcano. He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical film The Gathering Storm. Finney died of a heart attack in London on December 18, 2013. He had been battling lung cancer for more than a year. He died at the age of 83, having battled the disease for about five years. He has been described as a “genius” and a “natural talent” by many critics. He played Winston Churchill for the first time in the BBC’s The GatheringStorm. He also appeared in the film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Peter Hall. He appeared in a number of other films and television shows, including The Godfather and The Godmother. He made his Broadway debut in Luther in 1963. He starred in the play with the English Stage Company in London, Nottingham, Paris and New York.
He won a BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild award for his role in Skyfall, which made him over $1 million USD. His wife, Elsa Lanchester, was a co-star of Skyfall when it was released in 2004. He went on to win a Golden Globe and an Emmy award for the role of Winston Churchill on the TV show The Gathering storm. He later died of lung cancer in a car crash in 2005, aged 83. He suffered from the disease since childhood and was diagnosed with it in his early 20s. His son, David, was also an actor and appeared in several films and TV shows. He retired from acting in 2010 after a long and successful career in film and television. He wrote a book about his experiences, The Last King of Scotland, which was published in 2011. He worked as a consultant for the BBC until his death in 2013. His last film role was in the TV version of Luther, in which he played the title role of Martin Luther, the key figure of the Protestant Reformation. His first film appearance was in Tony Richardson’s The Entertainer, with Laurence Olivier, in 1959. He then appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus, replacing an ill Olivier. In 1959 Finney appeared in The Claverdon Road Job and View Friendship and Marriage. In 1958, made his London stage debut in Jane Arden’s The Party,. directed by Charles Laughton, along with his wife,Elsa Lanchester.
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