RIP Albert Finney at 82

I liked him in Tom Jones and Murder in the Orient Express.

He played the lead role of Eddie Ginley in the 1971 movie Gumshoe. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

If you haven’t seen The Dresser starring Finney and Tom Courtenay, you haven’t seen Finney at his best.

Mrs. L.A. will be sad to hear this.

Thank You Very Much, Albert Finney.

Most people will know him as “Daddy Warbucks” in the 1980 Annie I would guess.

Welcome to Scotland.

He can no longer trade body blows with any man in this town. But he will always be Leo to me.

An award for Most Memorable Dialogue – the very last two words in Two For The Road (with Audrey Hepburn, Henry Mancini music) were:

Finney: Bitch!
Hepburn: Bastard!

YES yes yes yes yes. An amazing, powerful film with Finney’s performance going well beyond tour de force to force of nature. Absolutely one of the greatest movies and performances I have ever seen; I pulled the DVD off the shelf to watch again tonight as soon as I read the news of his passing.

RIP Mr. Finney; you done good. Real good.

Indeed: thank you, Mr. Finney; thank you very much.

“Looker,” was a little wet-fart of a movie (early Michael Crichton effort) despite naked Susan Dey, but Finney was a lotta fun in it.

I think my favorite Finney movie is Big Fish.

Hey! Thats one of my favorite '80s sic fi flicks, actually. It’s one of a very few movies that I’d like someone to remake; the framework is excellent, it just didn’t get skinned quite properly, IMO.

Obligatory IMDb link.

Last roles are from 2012: Skyfall and The Bourne Legacy.

He was quite selective in his film roles early on, but by the 80s-90s was doing a bunch of stuff.

He’ll always be Tom Jones to me.

Maybe ones of these days I’ll figure out Charlie Bubbles. For one thing: Billie Whitelaw vs. Liza Minnelli? Billie for sure.

It’s also worth mentioning Finney’s starring role in the Dennis Potter television double series Karaoke / Cold Lazarus. I find Potter’s work a bit too offputting for my taste but Finney was stellar in it.

My Dad got HBO and Cinemax in the early '80s and I watched the shit out of it for the 1 month I had with him in the summer. Every rated R movie I could (not allowed in the other 11 months of the year). And I loved horror movies.

So my association with Albert Finney was Wolfen.