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Five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney has died at age 82.

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Via: johnrussell • 5 years ago • 5 comments

Five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney has died at age 82.

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Albert Finney, photographed in August 1966, died Friday following a short illness. Photo by Mondadori Publishers/Wikimedia Commons

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney has died at age 82.

Variety confirmed the British actor died Friday following a short illness.

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Finney's publicist told the Guardian the actor died of a chest infection at Royal Marsden hospital outside London. Finney's wife, Pene Delmage, and son, Simon Finney, were by the star's side.

Finney confirmed in May 2011 he was diagnosed with cancer , but it is unknown if the disease played a role in his death. The Guardian said Royal Marsden hospital specializes in cancer treatment.

Finney is known for such films as Tom Jones , Murder on the Orient Express and Erin Brockovich . He was nominated for an Academy Award five times, but never attended the awards show and never won.

"I've never been," he told reporters in December 2003. "I live in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party. Sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time."

Finney started his career in theater, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his stage debut in The Party in 1958, and replaced Laurence Olivier in Coriolanus the next year.

The actor moved to film, debuting in the 1960 movie The Entertainer and starring in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning the same year. He went on to land the title role in the 1963 movie Tom Jones , which earned him his first Oscar nomination.

Finney stayed active in theater while pursing film and television, winning Tony Awards for Luther in 1964 and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1968, and an Olivier Award for Orphans in 1986. His more recent movies included The Bourne Legacy and the James Bond film Skyfall .

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1 seeder JohnRussell 5 years ago

Albert Finney was one of the world's greatest actors. RIP.

Professor Principal

2 seeder JohnRussell 5 years ago

Earlier, or later, sometime in there, he had stumbled into a church and prayed for the return of his wife, who had left him. Now he sits on his veranda talking with his half-brother. He turns his head. His wife is standing in the doorway. He turns back. It cannot be her. He looks again. She is still there. Turns away. It cannot be. Looks again. A hallucination. But it persists, and eventually he is forced to admit that his wife has indeed returned, in answer to his prayers.
He drinks. He passes out. He wakes. The three of them set off on a bus journey. A peasant is found dead on a roadside. Later, in a bar, there is an unpleasantness with a whore. Still later, the day ends in a ditch. The consul's day is seen largely through his point of view, and the remarkable thing about "Under the Volcano" is that it doesn't resort to any of the usual tricks that movies use when they portray drunks. There are no trick shots to show hallucinations. No spinning cameras. No games with focus. Instead, the drunkenness in this film is supplied by the remarkably controlled performance of Albert Finney as the consul. He gives the best drunk performance I've ever seen in a film. He doesn't overact, or go for pathos, or pretend to be a character. His focus is on communication. He wants, he desperately desires, to penetrate the alcoholic fog and speak clearly from his heart to those around him. His words come out with a peculiar intensity of focus, as if every one had to be pulled out of the small hidden core of sobriety deep inside his confusion.