Albert Finney


  • Date of Birth: 09 May, 1936
  • Place of Birth: Salford, Greater Manchester , England , UK
  • Biography: Albert Finney, Jr. (born 9 May 1936) is an 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... Read more

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E-mail | Link | Comments ( ) Posted November 24, 2009 04:55 PM While the Company Theatre doesn't perform "A Christmas Carol" every year, the Norwell troupe's version of the Dickens novel has almost achieved the status of a South... ... Full Article

The movie will make a man out a boy. for its '80s era Albert Finney shaggy dog performance (see this and Looker), sound design, and James Horner's score which he lifted and pasted onto Aliens. ... Full Article

What? The DVD store has no copies of those classic New-Wave films of the 1960s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning? ... Full Article

In the year 1780, a dynamic, young Cambridge University graduate named William Wilberforce won a seat as a sitting member of the House of Commons in the British Parliament. ... Full Article

November 26, 2007 6:22 PM I believe the Alistair Sim version is usually called "Scrooge," but I agree absolutely that it is the best. When Sim's Scrooge visits his nephew's house on Christmas morning and hears the party singing "Barbara... ... Full Article

Albert Finney's "Scrooge" is my pick for tonight.... It's at 11 tonight on Turner Classic Movies. The musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" isn't my favorite, as I wrote. ... Full Article

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