Albert Finney's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Gathering Storm Winston Chu… My Uncle Silas (UK) Uncle Silas

Main Movie Roles 2007 - The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2006 - A Good Year 2006 - Amazing Grace 2005 - Corpse Bride 2004 - Ocean's Twelve 2003 - Big Fish 2001 - Delivering Milo 2000 - Traffic 2000 - Erin Brockovich 1999 - Breakfast of Champions 1997 - Washington Square 1992 - The Playboys 1990 - Miller's Crossing 1987 - Orphans 1984 - Under the Volcano 1983 - The Dresser 1982 - Annie 1981 - Looker 1981 - Wolfen 1977 - The Duellists 1975 - The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother 1974 - Murder on the Orient Express 1970 - Scrooge 1967 - Two for the Road 1963 - Tom Jones 1963 - The Victors 1960 - The Entertainer 1960 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

BIOGRAPHY:

Albert Finney came from the theatre, where he was especially successful in plays of William Shakespeare (I), to the movies. There he became a leading figure of the young Free Cinema. His debut in cinema was in 1960 with The Entertainer (1960) of Tony Richardson (I) who had directed him also in theatre plays various times before. His typical role were young prolets like, e.g. Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).


TRIVIA:

• He allegedly declined a C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1980 and Knighthood in 2000 for his services to drama.
• He was awarded the 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) Theatre Award in 1987 (1986 season) for Best Actor in a New Play for "Orphans".
• Appears, uncredited, in drag as The Matron in the ladies' bathroom scene in _Miller's Crossing (1990)_ (qv).
• Originally chosen for the title role in _Lawrence of Arabia (1962)_ (qv) after a screen test shot over four days at a cost of £100,000. He later baulked at the film's monumental shooting schedule, and did not want to commit to such a long term contract and opted to play the title role in _Tom Jones (1963)_ (qv), which gave him his first Oscar nomination.
• Although he was born working class (and indeed, along with 'Tom Courtenay' (qv), was one of the leading avatars of the wave of working class/provincial actors that revolutionized British theater and film in the 1950s and '60s, his was a relatively privileged upbringing as his father was a successful bookie.
• Doesn't have an agent nor a manager.
• He has one child from his first marriage to actress 'Jane Wenham' (qv). Finney's son, 'Simon Finney' (qv), works in the film business as a technician.
• He was awarded the 1986 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in Orphans.