![]() Especially in his younger roles, he reminded me of Bill Atkinson, the fierce-looking lodger in Kingsley Amis’s novel Lucky Jim: “Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom.”įinney in 1963 filming Tom Jones with Susannah York. ![]() ![]() His broad, open, likable face here did not feature the compressed emotion of his other roles, although the turn of his mouth had a certain sensual derision that was to become a fierce line of pain and rage in the famous performances of his later period: the doughty old lawyer in Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich (2000), playing opposite Julia Roberts and his superb turn as the agonised, careworn father of criminals in Sidney Lumet’s 2007 thriller Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.įinney was brilliant at conveying the state of being toughly unimpressed with everything around him. It was this multi-Oscar-winning film that made Finney rich and famous, but it was atypical. 02:55 A look back at Albert Finney's most memorable performances – video ![]()
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