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Albert Finney, Jr. (born May 9 1936) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning English actor. Hailed as a "second Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s. Although his early fame was later tempered by long absences from major motion pictures, he continues to earn awards and acclaim in a varied five decade career on stage, films, and television.
Albert Finney came from the theatre, where he was especially successful in plays of William Shakespeare (I), to the movies. There he became a leading figure of the young Free Cinema. His debut in cinema was in 1960 with Entertainer, The (1960) of Tony Richardson (I) who had directed him also in theatre plays various times before. His typical role were young prolets like, e.g. Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).
