Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire) is a five-time Academy Award nominated English actor. He has received several nominations and awards within the entertainment industry. In the early years of his career he was hailed as a "A second Olivier". Career highlights His first film was The Entertainer (1960), but his real breakthrough came with his portrayal of a hedonistic, disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This led to a series of "angry young man" roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy