“Stocky and obdurate, Mr. Finney spits with aggression, walks with impatience and indicates that laws exist to be broken,” Ms. Sayre wrote. But in 2007 Mr. Finney dropped out of sight, disclosing only in 2011 that he had been struggling for four years with cancer. After his return to acting, he took small parts in the thriller “The Bourne Legacy” and the James Bond movie “Skyfall,” both in 2012. “The pattern of my life is that there is no pattern,” Mr. Finney once said. I’m lurching rather than pointing in any given direction.”An episode in 1960 seemed to confirm that self-assessment.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2019 14:51 UTC