Albert Finney Highlights

  • 2007: Co-starred in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
  • 2007: Cast in "Amazing Grace," as John Newton the author of the hymn Amazing Grace
  • 2006: Co-starred with Russell Crowe in director Ridley Scott's "A Good Year"
  • 2005: Voiced Finnis Everglot in Tim Burton's animated feature "Corpse Bride"
  • 2003: Portrayed an Older Edward Bloom in "Big Fish"; directed by Tim Burton; received a golden globe nomination for best actor in a supporting role
  • 2002: Portrayed Winston Churchill in "The Gathering Storm"; received a SAG nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie
  • 2001: Cast as Ernest Hemingway in "Hemingway, The Hunter Of Death"
  • 2000: Made cameo appearance in the Soderbergh directed "Traffic"
  • 2000: Portrayed the title character's lawyer boss Ed Masry in "Erin Brockovich" directed by Steven Soderbergh; received a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination
  • 2000: Starred opposite Bridget Fonda in "Delivering Milo"; screened at Cannes
  • 1999: Co-starred with Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte in a film adaptation of Kurt Vonnnegut's "Breakfast of Champions"
  • 1999: Reunited with Courtenay for the "Masterpiece Theatre" drama "A Rather English Marriage" (PBS)
  • 1999: Played featured role of a former racing commissioner in "Simpatico"
  • 1997: Played the drunken Dr. Monygham in the lavish six-hour "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries presentation of "Joseph Conrad's 'Nostromo'" (PBS)
  • 1997: Portrayed the domineering doctor father of Jennifer Jason Leigh in Agnieska Holland's film version of Henry James' "Washington Square"
  • 1996: Essayed permanently soused TV writer Daniel Feeld in two Dennis Potter-scripted BBC specials "Karaoke" and "Cold Lazarus" (aired in USA on Bravo)
  • 1996: Co-starred with Courtenay in the London stage production of "Art"
  • 1995: Reteamed with Yates for "The Run of the Country" once again playing an Irish cop
  • 1994: Offered a masterful performance as the public school teacher-scholar at the center of Mike Figgis' remake of "The Browning Version"
  • 1993: Delivered a fine performance as an eccentric Southern father in Bruce Beresford's "Rich in Love"
  • 1992: Showed off an Irish brogue as the local police sergeant of a small Irish village in 1957 for "The Playboys"
  • 1991: Gave rich, rewarding performance as a bedeviled innkeeper in the otherworldly thriller "The Green Man" (A&E)
  • 1990: Appeared as Leo, the big city Irish crime lord of the Coen brothers' "Miller's Crossing"
  • 1987: Reprised his stage role as a Chicago gangster with an authentic South Side accent in Alan J Pakula's film adaptation of "Orphans"
  • 1984: Nominated a fourth time for a Best Actor Academy Award for Huston's "Under the Volcano"
  • 1984: Formed theater company with actors Richard Johnson and Diana Rigg
  • 1984: Made US TV acting debut in the title role of the CBS TV-movie "Pope John Paul II"
  • 1983: Co-starred with fellow RADA alum Tom Courtenay in a film version of "The Dresser" directed by Peter Yates; both earned Oscar nominations for Best Actor
  • 1982: Pocketed a reported $1 million to play Daddy Warbucks in John Huston's film version of "Annie"
  • 1981: Returned to films in Alan Parker's look at a disintegrating marriage, "Shoot the Moon"; also co-starred Diane Keaton
  • 1977: Recorded "Albert Finney's Album" (Motown Records)
  • 1975: Joined National Theatre in London to concentrated on stage work
  • 1974: Garnered a second Best Actor Oscar nod as Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet's "Murder on the Orient Express"
  • 1972: Served as an associate artistic director for the Royal Court Theatre in London; directed several plays
  • 1970: Played the title role in Ronald Neame's musical film "Scrooge"
  • 1968: Won a second Tony nomination for "A Day in the Life of Joe Egg"
  • 1967: Film directing debut (also actor), "Charlie Bubbles"
  • 1967: Co-starred with Audrey Hepburn as a bickering couple in Stanley Donen's "Two for the Road"
  • 1965: Formed production company, Memorial Enterprises Ltd. (with actor Michael Medwin)
  • 1964: First film as producer (also actor), Reisz's remake of "Night Must Fall"
  • 1963: Received first Best Actor Oscar nomination, playing the title role in Richardson's "Tom Jones"
  • 1963: Broadway debut, reprising the title role in "Luther" directed by Richardson; earned a Tony nomination
  • 1962: Made stage directing debut with Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Citizens Theater in Glasgow, Scotland
  • 1961: Played John Osborne's "Luther" in Paris, the Netherlands and London; directed by Richardson
  • 1960: First collaboration with Lindsay Anderson, starring in Anderson's stage production of "The Lily-White Boys"
  • 1960: Film acting debut as Olivier's son in "The Entertainer" helmed by Richardson
  • 1960: London stage breakthrough, playing the title character in "Billy Liar"; replaced in role by Tom Courtenay who would star in John Schlesinger's 1963 film version
  • 1960: First leading film role in Karel Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" produced by Richardson
  • 1959: Performed at the famed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre as Edgar in "King Lear" and Cassio in "Othello" (directed by Tony Richardson)
  • 1958: Had one scene opposite Charles Laughton in the West End production of "The Party"
  • 1956: Stage acting debut with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in "Julius Caesar" playing as Brutus
  • 1956: London stage debut with the Birmingham Rep at the Old Vic in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra"
  • Left David Lean's production of "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) after four days, because it would have entailed signing a seven-year contract with the studio; recommended RADA classmate Peter O'Toole for the role
  • Played the lead in fifteen school plays between the ages of 12 and 17
  • Joined the stock company of the Birmingham Repertory Company

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