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Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. He has received several nominations and awards within the entertainment industry. In the early years of his career he was hailed as 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 Award winning 1963 film Tom Jones, for which he turned down the role of T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.

After he starred in and directed Charlie Bubbles in 1968, his film appearances became less frequent. One of his more high profile later roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney was so effective in the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. "People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent" he said.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man (1990), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage (1998) (with Tom Courtenay), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays: Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996-1997. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head. Finney also made an appearance of Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin, where he played "The Judge" during the performance of "The Trial (song)", respectively. In 2002, he played Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm, for which he won BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor. Finney also had a voice-over role as Finnis Everglot in Tim Burton's 2005 film Corpse Bride.

He also played the leading role in the television series My Uncle Silas, about a Cornish country gentleman looking after his great-nephew. The series ran from 2000 until 2002, then again for a mini-series in 2003.

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards (Oscars)

He has been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984). He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich (2000).

British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA)

Finney received a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles in 1961 for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). He was also nominated for Best British Actor for the same film. Despite being nominated 15 more times, he finally won for The Gathering Storm.

Emmy Awards

He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the HBO telefilm The Image (1990), and won an Emmy, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie, for his performance as Winston Churchill in HBO's The Gathering Storm in 2002.

Golden Globe Awards

He's received Golden Globe nominations for his performances in

* Big Fish,
* Erin Brockovich,
* Under the Volcano,
* The Dresser,
* Shoot the Moon, and
* Tom Jones (he received two nominations, winning one below).

Additionally, he has won Golden Globes for The Gathering Storm, Scrooge, and for Tom Jones.

* For The Gathering Storm, he won "Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television" for 2003
* For his role in Scrooge, his portrayal of the both the old miser and the young Ebenezer Scrooge earned him "The Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical/Comedy" for 1971.
* For Tom Jones, he shared a win as "Most Promising Newcomer - Male" for 1964.

Laurel Awards

In 1971 he was nominated for a Golden Laurel for his work on Scrooge. For his work on Tom Jones, he was the 3rd Place Winner for the "Top Male Comedy Performance" for 1964.

Los Angeles Film Critics' Association

He was honoured by the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association as Best Actor for Under the Volcano (which he tied with F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus), the National Board of Review for Best Actor in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and the New York Film Critics' Circle for Best Actor in Tom Jones.

Screen Actors' Guild

He has also received three nominations from the Screen Actors' Guild Awards, being nominated for his performance in The Gathering Storm, winning for his performances in Erin Brockovich, and as a member of the acting ensemble in the movie Traffic.

Silver Berlin Bear

He won the Silver Berlin Bear award for Best Actor for The Dresser at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival.

Tony Awards

He's been nominated for two Tony Awards for his performances in the plays, "Luther" and "Joe Egg".

Venice Film Festival

He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Tom Jones at the Venice Film Festival.

Selected filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Arthur Seaton
1963 Tom Jones Tom Jones
1967 Two for the Road Mark Wallace
1970 Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge
1972 Gumshoe Eddie Ginley
1974 Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot
1981 Looker Dr. Larry Roberts
1981 Wolfen Dewey Wilson
1982 Annie Daddy Warbucks
1982 Shoot the Moon George Dunlap
1983 The Dresser Sir
1984 Under the Volcano Geoffrey Firmin
1990 Miller's Crossing Leo O'Bannion
1994 The Browning Version Andrew Crocker-Harris
1999 Breakfast of Champions Kilgore Trout
2000 Erin Brockovich Ed Masry
2000 Traffic White House Chief of Staff
2002 The Gathering Storm (2002) Winston Churchill
2003 Big Fish older Edward Bloom
2004 Ocean's Twelve Gaspar LeMarque (uncredited)
2005 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Finis Everglot (voice)
2006 A Good Year Uncle Henry Skinner
2007 Amazing Grace John Newton

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