The son of a bookmaker, Finney was born May 9, 1936, and grew up in northern England on the outskirts of Manchester. “It seems silly to go over there and beg for an award,” he told the paper. He also explained why he had not attended the Academy Awards in Los Angeles even when he was nominated for the film world’s top prize.

In one of his final roles, as the gruff Scotsman Kincade in “Skyfall,” he shared significant screen time with Daniel Craig as Bond and Judi Dench as M, turning the film’s final scenes into a master class of character acting.Īlthough Finney rarely discussed his personal life, he told the Manchester Evening News in 2012 that he had been treated for kidney cancer for five years, undergoing surgery and chemotherapy. There was no “Albert Finney”-type character that he returned to again and again. Albert Finney and Aileen Quinn in “Annie” Getty Imagesĭisplaying the versatility of a virtuoso, Finney portrayed Winston Churchill, Pope John Paul II, a lawyer in the American South, an Irish gangster and an 18th-century rogue, among dozens of other roles over the years.

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