FINNEY, ALBERT


Meaning of FINNEY, ALBERT in English

born May 9, 1936, Salford, Lancashire, Eng.

British actor.

He established himself as a Shakespearean actor in the late 1950s. In 1960 he won praise as a working-class rebel in the play Billy Liar and the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning . He played the lead in Luther on Broadway and became an international star in the film Tom Jones (1963). He later starred in films such as Two for the Road (1967), The Dresser (1983), Under the Volcano (1984), Miller's Crossing (1990), and Erin Brockovich (2000).

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