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Feb 8, 2019 · Three things in particular infuriated Albert Finney, Hollywood’s original “angry young man” – the Oscars, the UK honours system and chatter when he was on stage.
- Emily Retter
As a versatile and accomplished actor, director, and producer, Finney will forever be remembered as a not so angry young man who left an indelible mark on British culture and the world of entertainment.
Overview of the Angry Young Men, British literary, dramatic, and film movement of the 1950s and ’60s that expressed frustration with the class system.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 9, 2019 · Despite possessing the kind of resonant voice which characterised earlier generations of stage actors, Finney never lost his down-to-earth attitude - refusing both a CBE and a knighthood after...
Feb 8, 2019 · O ver a career that stretched from Britain’s “angry young men” era in the early 1960s through to his final role as James Bond’s gamekeeper in Skyfall (2012), Albert Finney was nominated for five Oscars. Not only did he never win, he never even showed up at the Academy Awards.
Feb 15, 2019 · He wasn’t the first ‘Angry Young Man’… That would be Kenneth Haigh in the role of Jimmy Porter in the London premiere of John Osborne’s landmark Look Back in Anger (1957). Nor the last great one … that distinction belongs to Malcolm McDowell of Lindsay Anderson ( If, O Lucky Man ) fame.
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Feb 8, 2019 · Albert Finney (1936-2019) Farewell to one of the most original British actors of his time, who first made his mark playing the angry young man in kitchen-sink classic Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
