Biography
Albert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (also 1960), Tom Jones (1963), Two for the Road (1967),...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jason Bourne
2016
as Dr. Albert Hirsch (archive footage) (uncredited)
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

Uncovering Wolfen
2015
as Self (archive footage)
After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood wri...

Skyfall
2012
as Kincade
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

The Bourne Legacy
2012
as Dr. Albert Hirsch
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
as Charles Hanson
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and ...

The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Dr. Albert Hirsch
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a...

Amazing Grace
2006
as John Newton
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...

A Good Year
2006
as Henry Skinner
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman...

Corpse Bride
2005
as Finis Everglot (voice)
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his ...

Ocean's Twelve
2004
as Gaspar LeMarc (uncredited)
Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried t...

Big Fish
2003
as Ed Bloom (senior)
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste...

The Gathering Storm
2002
as Winston Churchill
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...

Delivering Milo
2001
as Elmore Dahl
A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.

Traffic
2000
as Chief of Staff
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Erin Brockovich
2000
as Ed Masry
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work fo...

Simpatico
1999
as Simms
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an of...

Breakfast of Champions
1999
as Kilgore Trout
A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day,...

A Rather English Marriage
1998
as Reggie Conyngham-Jervis
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They...

Washington Square
1997
as Dr. Austin Sloper
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must de...

The Run of the Country
1995
as Danny's Father
An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.

A Man of No Importance
1994
as Alfred Byrne
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and ...

The Browning Version
1994
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innoce...

Rich in Love
1992
as Warren Odom
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindheart...

The Playboys
1992
as Constable Brendan Hegarty
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to na...

Miller's Crossing
1990
as Leo
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
1990
as Self - Vocals
A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefi...

The Image
1990
as Jason Cromwell
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.

The Endless Game
1989
as Alec Hillsden
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events fr...

Orphans
1987
as Harold
Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.

The Biko Inquest
1984
as Sidney Kentridge
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important ...

The Biko Inquest
1984
Director
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important ...

Notes from Under the Volcano
1984
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

Observations Under the Volcano
1984
as Self
Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.

Under the Volcano
1984
as Geoffrey Firmin
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a...

Pope John Paul II
1984
as Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 197...

The Dresser
1983
as Sir
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles...

Annie
1982
as 'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy"...

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
1982
as Self / Daddy Warbucks
An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director...

Shoot the Moon
1982
as George Dunlap
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

Looker
1981
as Dr. Larry Roberts
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding ...

Wolfen
1981
as Dewey Wilson
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral ani...

Loophole
1981
as Mike Daniels
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in...

The Duellists
1977
as Joseph Fouché
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perce...
Alpha Beta
1976
as Frank Elliot
E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Man," while Rachel Roberts plays "The Woman." The re...

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975
as Man in Audience at Opera
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to...

Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Hercule Poirot
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Law and Disorder
1974
Producer
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous...

O Lucky Man!
1973
Producer
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Gumshoe
1971
as Eddie Ginley
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Gumshoe
1971
Producer
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Bleak Moments
1971
Associate Producer
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neig...

Scrooge
1970
as Ebenezer Scrooge
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Spring and Port Wine
1970
Producer
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

The Picasso Summer
1969
as George Smith
A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

if....
1968
Producer
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callousl...

Charlie Bubbles
1968
as Charlie
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a...

Charlie Bubbles
1968
Director
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a...

Two for the Road
1967
as Mark Wallace
Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marr...

Night Must Fall
1964
as Danny
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleas...

The Victors
1963
as Russian Soldier
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to G...

Tom Jones
1963
as Tom Jones
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960
as Arthur Seaton
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

The Entertainer
1960
as Mick Rice
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.