A dynamic, often explosive, stage and screen star, Albert Finney trained at London's Royal Academy of... (Learn more)
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Albert Finney’s Milestones
| Joined the stock company of the Birmingham Repertory Company | |
| 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 | |
| 1956 | London stage debut with the Birmingham Rep at the Old Vic in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" |
| 1956 | Stage acting debut with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in "Julius Caesar" playing as Brutus |
| 1958 | Had one scene opposite Charles Laughton in the West End production of "The Party" |
| 1959 | Performed at the famed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre as Edgar in "King Lear" and Cassio in "Othello" (directed by Tony Richardson) |
| 1960 | Film acting debut as Olivier's son in "The Entertainer" helmed by Richardson |
| 1960 | First collaboration with Lindsay Anderson, starring in Anderson's stage production of "The Lily-White Boys" |
| 1960 | First leading film role in Karel Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" produced 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 |
| 1961 | Played John Osborne's "Luther" in Paris, the Netherlands and London; directed by Richardson |
| 1962 | Made stage directing debut with Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Citizens Theater in Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1963 | Broadway debut, reprising the title role in "Luther" directed by Richardson; earned a Tony nomination |
| 1963 | Received first Best Actor Oscar nomination, playing the title role in Richardson's "Tom Jones" |
| 1964 | First film as producer (also actor), Reisz's remake of "Night Must Fall" |
| 1965 | Formed production company, Memorial Enterprises Ltd. (with actor Michael Medwin) |
| 1967 | Co-starred with Audrey Hepburn as a bickering couple in Stanley Donen's "Two for the Road" |
| 1967 | Film directing debut (also actor), "Charlie Bubbles" |
| 1968 | Won a second Tony nomination for "A Day in the Life of Joe Egg" |
| 1970 | Played the title role in Ronald Neame's musical film "Scrooge" |
| 1972 - 1975 | Served as an associate artistic director for the Royal Court Theatre in London; directed several plays |
| 1974 | Garnered a second Best Actor Oscar nod as Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet's "Murder on the Orient Express" |
| 1975 | Joined National Theatre in London to concentrated on stage work |
| 1977 | Recorded "Albert Finney's Album" (Motown Records) |
| 1981 | Returned to films in Alan Parker's look at a disintegrating marriage, "Shoot the Moon"; also co-starred Diane Keaton |
| 1982 | Pocketed a reported $1 million to play Daddy Warbucks in John Huston's film version of "Annie" |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 1984 | Nominated a fourth time for a Best Actor Academy Award for Huston's "Under the Volcano" |
| 1987 | Reprised his stage role as a Chicago gangster with an authentic South Side accent in Alan J Pakula's film adaptation of "Orphans" |
| 1990 | Appeared as Leo, the big city Irish crime lord of the Coen brothers' "Miller's Crossing" |
| 1991 | Gave rich, rewarding performance as a bedeviled innkeeper in the otherworldly thriller "The Green Man" (A&E) |
| 1992 | Showed off an Irish brogue as the local police sergeant of a small Irish village in 1957 for "The Playboys" |
| 1993 | Delivered a fine performance as an eccentric Southern father in Bruce Beresford's "Rich in Love" |
| 1994 | Offered a masterful performance as the public school teacher-scholar at the center of Mike Figgis' remake of "The Browning Version" |
| 1995 | Reteamed with Yates for "The Run of the Country" once again playing an Irish cop |
| 1996 | Co-starred with Courtenay in the London stage production of "Art" |
| 1996 | Essayed permanently soused TV writer Daniel Feeld in two Dennis Potter-scripted BBC specials "Karaoke" and "Cold Lazarus" (aired in USA on Bravo) |
| 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" |
| 1999 | Co-starred with Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte in a film adaptation of Kurt Vonnnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" |
| 1999 | Played featured role of a former racing commissioner in "Simpatico" |
| 1999 | Reunited with Courtenay for the "Masterpiece Theatre" drama "A Rather English Marriage" (PBS) |
| 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 |
| 2001 | Cast as Ernest Hemingway in "Hemingway, The Hunter Of Death" |
| 2002 | Portrayed Winston Churchill in "The Gathering Storm"; received a SAG nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie |
| 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 |
| 2005 | Voiced Finnis Everglot in Tim Burton's animated feature "Corpse Bride" |
| 2006 | Co-starred with Russell Crowe in director Ridley Scott's "A Good Year" |
| 2007 | Cast in "Amazing Grace," as John Newton the author of the hymn Amazing Grace |
| 2007 | Co-starred in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" |
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