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Albert Finney: Roles
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The Albert Finney character picks up a copy of the paper on his suburban home’s doorstep, and the name is only vaguely visible through the yellow plastic. But then, after his wife is gunned down at the botched heist, that’s when the paper really gets a starring role. Finney finds out who the murderer is in frontpage story in the paper the next day—right above a red LoHud bar on the bottom of A1. What’s more, he begins carrying the paper with him for the rest of the movie.
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Albert Finney shines in this delightful musical based on Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol." Finney stars in the title role as the archetypical miser who has a change of heart when visited by a quartet of Yuletide spectres. Alec Guinness, Edith Evans and Kenneth More ... star. 114 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English.
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Synopsis: Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twentyRead More
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After "Murder on the Orient Express", Finney would appear in only one film over the next seven years, playing a small role in Ridley Scott's "The Duellists" (1977). He had directed several plays while associate artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre from 1972-75. As a member of the National Theatre beginning in 1975, he concentrated exclusively on stage acting, portraying the title roles of "Hamlet", "Tamburlaine the Great", "Macbeth" and "Uncle Vanya", among his varied work. Finney returned to the screen with a flurry of pictures in the early 80s. The first few ("Loophole", Wolfen", "Looker" all 1981) were embarrassing, but he finally hit his stride in Alan Parker's harrowing portrait of divorce, "Shoot the Moon" (... 1981), giving a powerful, sexually-charged, rage-filled performance as a writer crazed with jealousy that his wife (Diane Keaton) and children seem to be getting along fine without him since his departure. After pocketing a nifty sum to play Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" (1982) for John Huston, he essayed the aging Donald Wolfit-like actor-manager to Tom Courtenay's "The Dresser" (1983), with both actors earning Best Actor Oscar nominations for their superb work.
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For the next seven years, Finney did only one film, playing a small role in Ridley Scott's THE DUELISTS (1977). He had directed several plays while associate artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre from 1972-1975. He had a flurry of pictures in the early eighties, Alan Parker's SHOOT THE MOON, starring Diane Keaton (1981) and then the role of 'Daddy Warbucks' in ANNIE (1982) for John Huston. He earned his fourth Best Actor Oscar nomination for UNDER THE VOLCANO, adapted from Malcolm Lowry's autobiographical novel. Finney reprised his stage role as drunken Chicago gangster in ORPHANS (1987). The nineties forayed into television, in two Dennis Potter-scripted miniseries KARAOKE and COLD LAZARUS (both 1996; aired in the USA on Bravo), and as Dr. Monygham in the lavish six-hour "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries Joseph Conrad's NOSTROMO (PBS, 1997).
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After winning an Academy award nomination for his performance in 1982's Shoot the Moon, Finney delivered another outstanding performance in Peter Yates' 1983 film The Dresser, which earned five Oscar nominations, including a nomination for Finney as best actor. In the film, Finney plays a boozing Shakespearean actor whose life strangely parallels the tragic life of one of the characters he portrays, King Lear. In 1984, Finney won still another Oscar nomination, as well as a Golden Globe nomination, for his role as a self-defeating alcoholic in director John Huston's Under the Volcano. In the same year, critics praised him highly for his dynamic portrayal of Pope John Paul II in an American TV production.
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