Albert Finney was adored for his wide variety of roles that crossed generations but will always be remembered as one of the “angry young men” in the working class film and theatre renaissance of the early 1960s. Albert Finney was adored for his wide variety of roles that crossed generations but will always be remembered as one of the “angry young men” in the working class film and theatre renaissance of the early 1960s. He was part of a new wave of actors in the movement sparked in the mid-1950s by working class and middle class novelists and playwrights, starring in Saturday Night And Sunday Morning in 1960, one of the first gritty kitchen-sink dramas. In one of his lesser TV roles in The Gathering Storm, he won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Winston Churchill. Finney made his movie debut with a small part alongside Olivier in The Entertainer in 1960, directed by Tony Richardson.

Source: Irish Independent February 08, 2019 15:56 UTC