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His most famous role was as Agatha Christie's master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film "Murder On The Orient Express." Finney was so effective in the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. "People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent" he said.
He was born in Salford, Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
His first film was The Entertainer ( 1960), but his real breakthrough came with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This led to a series of "angry young man" roles in kitchen sink dramas, most notably 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey's Tom JonesTom Jones is a 1963 comedy film which tells the story of a young 18th century man who is taken into the household of a rich gentleman and grows up living a bawdy life with many women. Albert Finney stars as the title character. Susannah York, Hugh Griffit (for which he turned down the role of T. E. LawrenceThomas Edward Lawrence ( August 16, 1888 May 19, 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia and (apparently, among his Arab allies) Aurens or El Aurens, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916 1918. His fame as in Lawrence of ArabiaLawrence of Arabia is an Academy Award-winning film based loosely on the life of T. Lawrence, starring Peter O'Toole as the title character, directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel. Lean and Spiegel had recently completed the acclaimed film The). Albert Finney has often been called "A second Olivier".
His televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p roles include the lead in Dennis PotterDennis Christopher George Potter ( May 17, 1935 June 7, 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of's final two plays: KaraokeKaraoke was a television play written by Dennis Potter shortly before his death, and broadcast after it in 1995. It forms a pair with the television play Cold Lazarus''. The two plays were filmed as a single production by the same team; both were directed and Cold LazarusCold Lazarus is a television play written by Dennis Potter shortly before his death, and broadcast after it in 1994. It forms a pair with the television play Karaoke''. The two plays were filmed as a single production by the same team; both were directed. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head.
From 1970 to 1978, he married the French actress Anouk Aimée.