{"id":2307,"date":"2019-02-13T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:00:29","slug":"a-tribute-to-albert-finney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2019\/02\/13\/a-tribute-to-albert-finney\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Albert Finney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n

Last week, we lost an icon of 20th<\/sup> century\ncinema. The actor Albert Finney, who personified the \u201cangry young man\u201d of\nBritish cinema of the 1950s, died on February 7th<\/sup> at the age of 82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Image from Getty.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Finney was born to a lower-middle class family in Salford,\nEngland, just outside of Manchester, in 1936. After attending the Royal Academy\nof Drama (RADA), Finney had a name for himself as a stage actor before taking\nfilm roles. His first film, The\nEntertainer<\/em>, was one of the first \u201ckitchen-sink dramas\u201d: films that\nexplored the lives of working class Britons with unrelenting realism, and tried\nto force British society at large to deal with social problems in the wake of\nWWII. Since Finney came from a lower-middle\/working class family from Northern\nEngland, he was an ideal fit for many of the \u201cangry young man\u201d roles that\ndominated these films. In addition to The\nEntertainer,<\/em> he also starred in Saturday\nNight and Sunday Morning. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his affinity of these working class roles, Finney\nmanaged to avoid being typecast. In 1963, just three years after the release of\nhis first two kitchen sink films, Finney earned his first Oscar nomination for\nhis titular role in Tom Jones<\/em>, a film\nbased on the raunchy 18th<\/sup> century novel. However, he famously\nscorned the Oscars and other awards, and he never attended the ceremony,\ndespite being nominated a total of five times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finney worked consistently between 1956 and 2002,\nappearing in plays such as The Cherry\nOrchard<\/em>, movies like Erin Brockovich<\/em>\nand Big Fish<\/em>,a tv show like the Winston\nChurchill drama The Gathering Storm<\/em>.\nand  After fighting cancer in the mid\n2000s, he returned to theaters with small roles in the Jason Bourne trilogy, as\nwell as the James Bond film Skyfall<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll miss Albert Finney\u2019s arresting presence in new films, but the nice thing about DVDs is that you can go back and watch actors like Finney forever. Here are Finney\u2019s films in our collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning <\/em>(DVD 359)<\/li>
  • Tom Jones <\/em>(DVD 8107)<\/li>
  • Erin Brockovich <\/em>(DVD 306)<\/li>
  • The Playboys <\/em>(DVD 6817)<\/li>
  • Miller\u2019s Crossing <\/em>(DVD 2457)<\/li>
  • A Good Year<\/em> (DVD 3959)<\/li>
  • The Dresser<\/em> (DVD 4790)<\/li>
  • Before the Devil Knows You\u2019re Dead<\/em> (DVD 4201)<\/li>
  • Skyfall<\/em> (DVD 5001)<\/li>
  • Under the Volcano<\/em> (DVD 8807)<\/li>
  • Annie<\/em> (DVD 221)<\/li>
  • The Bourne Ultimatum<\/em> (DVD 4953)<\/li>
  • Amazing Grace<\/em> (DVD 3420)<\/li>
  • Tim Burton\u2019s Corpse Bride<\/em> (DVD 13291)<\/li>
  • Two for the Road<\/em> (DVD 4562)<\/li>
  • Big Fish<\/em> (DVD 4712)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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