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Albert Finney
Known for: ActingAlbert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (also 1960), Tom Jones (1963), Two for the Road (1967), Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), The Dresser (1983), Miller's Crossing (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), Erin Brockovich (2000), Big Fish (2003), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012). A recipient of BAFTA , Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards, Finney was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984), and as Best Supporting Actor for Erin Brockovich (2000). He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical film The Gathering Storm.
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Corpse Bride
as Finis Everglot (voice) 
Skyfall
as Kincade 
Traffic
as Chief of Staff 
The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Albert Hirsch 
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Dr. Albert Hirsch 
Erin Brockovich
as Ed Masry 
Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot 
Big Fish
as Ed Bloom (senior) 
Miller's Crossing
as Leo 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
as Charles Hanson 
Delivering Milo
as Elmore Dahl 
Wolfen
as Dewey Wilson 
A Good Year
as Henry Skinner 
The Dresser
as Sir 
Annie
as 'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks 
Two for the Road
as Mark Wallace 
The Duellists
as Joseph Fouché 
Cold Lazarus
as Daniel Feeld 
Karaoke
as Daniel Feeld 
My Uncle Silas
as Uncle Silas 
Amazing Grace
as John Newton 
if....
Producer 
Charlie Bubbles
as Charlie 
The Gathering Storm
as Winston Churchill 
Scrooge
as Ebenezer Scrooge 
Simpatico
as Simms 
Breakfast of Champions
as Kilgore Trout 
Under the Volcano
as Geoffrey Firmin 
A Man of No Importance
as Alfred Byrne 
Tom Jones
as Tom Jones 
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris 
O Lucky Man!
Producer 
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
as Man in Audience at Opera 
Washington Square
as Dr. Austin Sloper 
Looker
as Dr. Larry Roberts 
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
as Arthur Seaton 
Pope John Paul II
as Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II 
Loophole
as Mike Daniels 
Law and Disorder
Producer 
The Picasso Summer
as George Smith 
Spring and Port Wine
Producer 
Loving Memory
Producer 
Shoot the Moon
as George Dunlap 
Orphans
as Harold 
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self (archive footage) 
The Entertainer
as Mick Rice 
Gumshoe
as Eddie Ginley 
The Run of the Country
as Danny's Father 
Night Must Fall
as Danny