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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
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Directed by Tim Burton and starring Albert Finney and Jessica Lange, “Big Fish” is an extraordinary tale of love, family, and adventure of mythic proportions. Albert Finney plays Edward Bloom, a man who loves weaving tales filled with colorful characters and improbable events. These stories charm everyone except Edward’s son, Will (Billy Crudup). When Edward takes ill, his wife Sandra (Jessica Lange) does her best to reconcile father and son before it’s too late.
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Throughout his acting career, Albert Finney has impressed critics with his protean ability to step into a role and wear a character's persona no matter the age, nationality, or métier. In stage, film, and television productions over more than 40 years, Finney has portrayed a Polish pope, a Belgian detective, an Irish gangster, a British miser, a gruff American lawyer, a Scottish King, a German religious reformer, and an Roman warrior -- all with convincing authenticity. Finney was born on May 9, 1936, in the working-class town of Salford, Lancashire, England. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1955, he performed Shakespeare and quickly earned a coveted spot as understudy for the great Laurence Olivier in Shakespeare productions at Stratford-upon-Avon. On one occasion, he stepped into Olivier's shoes to play the lead role in Coriolanus, a play about the downfall of a proud Roman soldier, and won recognition that led to film roles. Finney's upbringing in Lancashire, a region of mills and smokestacks, exposed him to the kind of social injustice and economic hardship that helped prepare him for his role as a nonconformist factory worker in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a milestone in the development of British realist cinema.
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Born in Manchester in 1936, Albert Finney came to the cinema from theatre, where he had been very successful. His first film was The Entertainer alongside Laurence Olivier in 1960, but he received real recognition for Saturday Night Sunday Morning made later that year. International fame came in 1963 when Finney took the title role in the film adaptation of Tom Jones, for which he received an Oscar nomination. Finney decided against a move to Hollywood, choosing instead to continue working in theatre. However, he continued to appear in excellent films, including Two For The Road, Murder On The Orient Express and the Coen brothers' Millar's Crossing.
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Albert Finney plays the Irish crime lord Leo, and demonstrates once again the enormous range that has marked his career. The actor who once, as a student, was reviewed by Kenneth Tynan as a "smouldering young Spencer Tracy...who will soon distrub the dreams of Messrs. Burton and Scofield" says that he was drawn to the film by the presence of the Coen brothers and the quality of the script. "I saw Raising Arizona when it opened in New York," he says. Soon thereafter a friend asked him who he thought were the most interesting filmmakers around, and when he answered "The Coen brothers," she offered to introduce them. "That's why I'm here," he says.
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Albert Finney, Jr. (born May 9, 1936) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning English actor. Hailed as a "second Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s. Although his early fame was later tempered by long absences from major motion pictures, he continues to earn awards and acclaim in a varied five decade career on stage, films, and television.
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