Albert FinneyAKA:
Albert Finney
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English Birthdate:
05/09/1936 Birthplace:
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biography
A dynamic, often explosive, stage and screen star, Albert Finney trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where his classmates included Alan Bates and Peter O'Toole. Beginning his stage career with the Birmingham Repertory Company, he made his London debut in the company's production of George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" in 1956. Two years later, he earned critical acclaim opposite Charles Laughton in a West End production of "The Party", after which he joined the famed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon for their 100th anniversary season, performing Cassio
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Year
Milestone
Played the lead in fifteen school plays between the ages of 12 and 17
Joined the stock company of the Birmingham Repertory Company
1956
Stage acting debut with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in "Julius Caesar" playing as Brutus
1956
London stage debut with the Birmingham Rep at the Old Vic in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra"
1958
Had one scene opposite Charles Laughton in the West End production of "The Party"
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