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Albert Finney: Plays
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Albert Finney does an amazing job of playing the elderly Scrooge as well as the younger versions seen in the past. His "old man" Scrooge is acted with such aplomb that you accept him as that age, with not a hint of artificiality. His pinched features, squinty eyes, and close-to-his-body arm and hand movements suggest a man closed off from his fellow man, as well as age.
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From an interview with Sidney Lumet: Their father is played by Albert Finney, with whom Lumet previously worked on Murder on the Orient Express. "We hadn't seen each other in close to 20 years but we practically picked up our conversation from where we had last left off," says Lumet. "I was just hoping he wasn't looking at my protruding belly and I certainly tried not to look at his.
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Rather than abandon live stage drama, Finney continued to pursue it with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in London, performing in Shakespeare productions and plays by other authors. He won Tony nominations for Luther and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, as well as a best actor Oliver for Orphans. When he made his next film in 1967, he starred opposite Audrey Hepburn in Stanley Donen's Two for the Road, a comedy-drama about marital mayhem, and again won high critical praise.
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"Charlie Bubbles," released the same year, remains close to the heart of many a Finney fan. In it, he plays a successful novelist, up from the working class, who suffers the exhaustion and ennui of fame and wealth. There's a lovey food fight in a posh London eatery with an old friend, a return to the grimy northern city of his birth before visiting his ex-wife and son in the country, and a grand ending. Billie Whitelaw is superb as the ex-wife.
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