Person    | Male  Born 9/5/1936  Died 7/2/2019

Albert Finney

Categories: Cinema, Theatre

Actor. Born Salford. In 1960 Finney and Olivier worked together on The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, at the time married to Vanessa Redgrave.

He died of a chest infection, aged 82 years, on 7 February 2019 in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London.

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Albert Finney

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Laurence Olivier statue

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