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Albert Finney is a British actor, born 9 May 1936 in Salford, Greater
Manchester, England. He has received five Academy Awards nominations, and
has won three Golden Globe Awards.
His most famous role was as Agatha Christie's 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 [136 kg] with a French
accent" he said.
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, most notably
1963's Tom Jones (for which he turned down the role of T. E. Lawrence in
Lawrence of Arabia). Albert Finney has often been called "A second Olivier.
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For his role in Scrooge (1970 film), his musical portrayal of the both the
old miser and the young Ebenezer Scrooge earned him the 1971 "The Best
Motion Picture Actor in a Musical/Comedy" Golden Globe Award.
From 1970 to 1978, he was married to the French actress Anouk Aimée.
His television roles include the lead in Dennis Potter's final two plays:
Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head.
His most recent TV credit is the leading role in My Uncle Silas, about a
Cornish country gentleman, who's looking after his grand-nephew. It ran from
2000 until 2002, then again for a mini-series in 2003.
Finney's accolades are numerous. He's been nominated for the Best Actor
Oscar four times, for Tom Jones, Murder On The Orient Express, The Dresser,
and Under the Volcano. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his
performance in Erin Brockovich. He won the Silver Berlin Bear award for Best
Actor for "The Dresser" at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival. He
was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in The Image and won an
Emmy for his performance as Winston Churchill in the HBO movie, The
Gathering Storm. He's been nominated for two Tony Awards for his performance
in the play's, "Luther" and "Joe Egg". He's received Golden Globe Award
nominations for his performances in "Big Fish", Erin Brockovich, Under the
Volcano, The Dresser, and "Shoot the Moon", and has won the Golden Globe for
The Gathering Storm, Scrooge (1970), and for Tom Jones as "Most Promising
Newcomer - Male". He was honored 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. He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Tom Jones at the Venice
Film Festival. 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
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