Cast & creator
Albert Finney
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The South Bank Show
Albert 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.
Also known as: Альберт Финни, آلبرت فینی
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film credits
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television credits
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1950–2025 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (83)
Showing 83 of 83 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The South Bank Show
1978
Tony Awards
Self
1956
Schitt's Creek
Ed Masry (voice)
2015
Screen Two
Alfred Byrne
1985
Corpse Bride
Finis Everglot (voice)
2005Film '72
Self
1971
Sunday Night Theatre
Arnold
1950
Jason Bourne
Dr. Albert Hirsch (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Ocean's Twelve
Gaspar LeMarc (uncredited)
2004
Skyfall
Kincade
2012
The Bourne Ultimatum
Dr. Albert Hirsch
2007
The Bourne Legacy
Dr. Albert Hirsch
2012
ABC Stage 67
Self
1966
Erin Brockovich
Ed Masry
2000
Big Fish
Ed Bloom (senior)
2003
Traffic
Chief of Staff
2000
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot
1974
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Charles Hanson
2007
A Good Year
Henry Skinner
2006
Miller's Crossing
Leo
1990
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self (footage)
2025
Karaoke
Daniel Feeld
1996
Cold Lazarus
Daniel Feeld
1996
Wolfen
Dewey Wilson
1981
Annie
'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks
1982
The Duellists
Joseph Fouché
1977
Tom Jones
Tom Jones
1963
Two for the Road
Mark Wallace
1967
My Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas
2001
Under the Volcano
Geoffrey Firmin
1984
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout
1999
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Man in Audience at Opera
1975
The Endless Game
Alec Hillsden
1989
O Lucky Man!
Producer
1973
Washington Square
Dr. Austin Sloper
1997
Amazing Grace
John Newton
2007
Delivering Milo
Elmore Dahl
2001
Nostromo
Dr. Monygham
1997
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge
1970
The Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill
2002
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
1994
The Green Man
Maurice
1990
if....
Producer
1968
Pope John Paul II
Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II
1984
Looker
Dr. Larry Roberts
1981
Loophole
Mike Daniels
1981
Simpatico
Simms
1999
The Dresser
Sir
1983
Loving Memory
Producer
1970
Shoot the Moon
George Dunlap
1982
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Arthur Seaton
1960
A Man of No Importance
Alfred Byrne
1994
A Rather English Marriage
Reggie Conyngham-Jervis
1998
Orphans
Harold
1987
The Victors
Russian Soldier
1963
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1993
Law and Disorder
Producer
1974
The Run of the Country
Danny's Father
1995
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Self / Daddy Warbucks
1982
Spring and Port Wine
Producer
1970Alpha Beta
Frank Elliot
1974
Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
Self - Vocals
1990
The Biko Inquest
Sidney Kentridge
1984The Biko Inquest
Director
1984
Bleak Moments
Associate Producer
1972
The Image
Jason Cromwell
1990
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
1984
The Entertainer
Mick Rice
1960
Charlie Bubbles
Charlie
1968Charlie Bubbles
Director
1968
Gumshoe
Eddie Ginley
1971Gumshoe
Producer
1971
Rich in Love
Warren Odom
1992
Vito
Self (archive footage)
2011
The Playboys
Constable Brendan Hegarty
1992
The Picasso Summer
George Smith
1969
Uncovering Wolfen
Self (archive footage)
2015
Night Must Fall
Danny
1964
The Endless Game
Alec Hillsden
1989
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
1984
A Simple Man
Self - Introduction
1987