Albert Finney Movies

Albert Finney (1936 – 2019) was a 5 time Oscar® nominated English actor.  Finney achieved especial success as a Shakespearean actor before switching to film.  His film career lasted from 1960’s The Entertainer to 2012’s Skyfall.  His IMDb page shows 65 from 1956 to 2012.   This page ranks  Albert Finney movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, bit parts, and his movies not released in North America theaters are not included in the rankings.
Albert Finney in 1963’s Tom Jones

Albert Finney Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Billy Crudup and Albert Finney in Big Fish….my favorite Finney movie.

Albert Finney Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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Albert Finney Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

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54 thoughts on “Albert Finney Movies”

  1. Since everybody complained….I went ahead and took Anne Bancroft’s 4 movies off this page….I always thought Finney and Bancroft were synonymous with each other…..lol. That error has been fixed.

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  2. Besides the addition to two films Albert Finney is not in – Silent Movie and The Hindenburg – one of Finney’s best known movies is missing from the table – Two For the Road.

    I have seen 10 Albert Finney movies. Most of the movies have seen are between 10 and 20.

    The HIGHEST ranked film I have seen is Tom Jones.

    The highest ranked film I have NOT seen is Traffic.

    The LOWEST rated film I have seen is The Prisoner of Second Avenue.

    I am surprised that Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is rated so low.

    Favourite Albert Finney Movies:

    Murder on the Orient Express
    Tom Jones
    Big Fish
    Two For the Road
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    I have also seen:
    Annie
    The Dresser
    Scrooge
    The Entertainer
    The Prisoner of Second Avenue

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    1. Never mind. I see that Two For the Road is on the table. I am not sure how I missed it. Sorry for that confusion.

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      1. Yep…Two For The Road is there….has a nice spot in the 12th place when looking at overall UMR score…does slightly better when looking at Review % ranking…as it has the 11th spot.

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    2. Hey Flora…..thanks for checking out our latest page. Yep…I gave Finney credit for not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 Anne Bancroft movies. I guess I was feeling pretty generous this morning…lol.

      Tally of 10….lower than I thought….especially since he was a well known star by 1976…..but looking at your 9 (I threw out Prisoner of Second Avenue – Bancroft showing up again) 6 were before your birth year.

      Saturday Night And Sunday Morning has a really good review score (75%) but go no Oscar love…and barely played in North America….doing poorly in 2 of the 3 categories can really lower the UMR score.

      Glad to see you like Big Fish…..Finney reminds me of my dad when I see that movie….granted my dad was not a great outrageous story teller like Finney in the movie….but they had lots of other ways that were the same.

      As always….thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts on Albert Finney….it is greatly appreciated.

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      1. Hmmmm…..well…..that is the first time for that error. I will have to fix it when I get home. Sorry about that.

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      2. HI STEVE

        You know how Bruce is always trying to give certain actors undue credit for other people’s grosses [for example Myrna for Clark Gable films] so it is not surprising that the type of mix up you’ve identified should occur. Reminds me actually of the transportation process in The Fly and its outcome!

        Seriously though whilst I like a joke “I cannot tell a lie” [as I think George Washington is supposed to have said] so let’s give honour where honour is due. Bruce’s mistakes are few and far between and usually minor ones that would annoy just a nitpicker like me. Given the enormous expanse and diversity of this site the consistency of accuracy that he and W o C continuously instil is nothing short of amazing.

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        1. Hey Bob….gotta admit this error has really confused me…..I do not even have a guess as to how I got Bancroft movies into Finney’s totals. At this point there hundreds of thousands pieces of information on the website…..so I guess our error rate is pretty good. Thanks for the nice words at the end of the comment.

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    2. Hey Søren….good catches….I royally messed this table up….but all is well that ends well…lol. Good to hear from you.

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  4. In 1960’s Saturday Night and Sunday morning Albert Finney was one of the biggest stars in the British New Wave of what historians call “kitchen sink dramas” –ie movies that were set in basic and often squalid working class districts in the North of England.

    Albert gained international fame with films like Tom Jones, Two for the Road with Audrey Hepburn, Scrooge and Annie but never became a mega star the way in which for example Brits Sir Sean Connery and Sir Maurice Micklewhite [aka Michael Caine] did so Finney eventually settled into leads in minor projects and/or excellent portrayals in supporting roles.

    Albert’s net worth is said to be $10 million today which is not a great amount compared with the fortunes of many American stars a large number of whom would not have Albert’s great talents, but that sum represents riches beyond what most British actors who were around when Finned debuted would probably have even dreamt of

    I have from time-to-time playfully chided Steve about the honors such as Knighthoods that the British establishment hands out through Her Majesty the Queen of England. Whilst I personally consider the likes of Sir Sean Connery and Sir Maurice Micklewhite to have deserved their knighthoods I do think that in many cases the honors are overdone.

    Finney goes further than I though and at different times turned down both a CBE [Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire] AND a Knighthood saying that such awards “perpetuated snobbery”. Here he would have been echoing the kind of sentiments that his great Sat Night and Sun Morning working-class character, Arthur, often loudly voiced. Personally had there ever been a Sir Albert I for one would have regarded it as richly deserved at least within the status quo as it exists. IMDB ranks Finney 59th on its “Ultimate” list of the 100 greatest actors of all time and records that he won 27 acting awards and 53 nominations. Because of my own admiration of Albert I greet this new page with a big “Vote Up”

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    1. Bob, there are rumors that Jason Statham’s name has been put forward for a knighthood in the upcoming New Year’s Honours list. Fully deserved I think and about time. The guy’s a national treasure. Sir Jason Statham has a nice ring to it, whaddya think?

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      1. HI SIR STEVE

        When the Beatles were awarded MBE’s in 1965 by Her Majesty the Queen several Army officers [whom the Queen had rewarded for bravery] along with other prominent leaders of society for a variety of services to the country, sent theirs back to Buckingham Palace.

        They did so as a protest because they regarded it as an insult that The Beatles should be bracketed along with people who truly deserved awards and honours as distinct from The Beatles whom many perceived as the product of commercial hype.

        If Albert Finney hears that Jason is to be knighted it wouldn’t surprise me if Finney regretted never accepting a knighthood as otherwise he could now have the pleasure of returning it!

        At least we’re spared the misery of mountebanks being awarded knighthoods etc in the States. It would have been truly terrible to have had a Dame Myrna or a Sir Joel running about lording it over us!

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        1. Hey Bob and Steve…sounds like it is going to be a big year for Jason….the success of The Meg….his probably Oscar win for that movie later this year and being knighted. If only he could get a Hollywood star…..lol.

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          1. My goodness the Brits certainly are churning out the actor knights these days ! It’s a pity that the Meg is a Yank, otherwise probably arise Sir Meg! But as it is we have Sir Maurice, Sir Sean and now Sir Jason. “The lift goes up where HE belongs.” [Though I feel more like breaking into a verse of “God Bless America”.]

            Move aside Larry, Spence and Marlon, there’s a new kid on the block. Though personality I always thought of Statham as the new Cary Grant, so suave and sophisticated is Sir Jason. Still it’s good to be in first hand at the birth of a new cult figure. I’m sure that about 50 years from now my grandchildren will say “Gramps always retained his memory. He could even recall where he was when Lord Statham replaced Elvis and the Beatles as the top British and American legend.

            Gramps himself never did buy into the Statham phenomenon though and placed Lord Jason in a sort of “Rogues Gallery” along with the likes of some long-dead critic who, although apparently having a good ear for music, grandad thought wrote rubbish about actors. Also Grandad equated Lord Statham’s acting skills alongside those of some ham whose acting technique included the gimmick of running up and down steps in Philadelphia flexing his muscles.”

            However a word of caution guys. Acting standards may have slipped over the years and although Sir Jace may have been able to out-act The Meg I doubt if he could cope with Asta as only The Thin Woman ever seemed to be able to match that cute little guy in the acting stakes.

            PS To show his contempt for the Roman Senate of his reign, it is said that Emperor Caligula made his horse a Senator and you will see that I have made our Horse an honorary Knight and that I have turned my favourite pin up Poster Boy into a cross dresser – in fact maybe Dressed to Kill if he reads this!

          2. Bob, you’re getting your panties in a bunch over this (as the Yanks say), I was only joshing about Statham getting a knighthood. He might get an OBE down the line but knighthood? Never.

            Always remember if I mention the Stath in a post it’s with tongue planted firmly in cheek. I like him as an action star but as an actor he has his limitations, ditto Sly and Arnie. Let’s be fair here even your darling Alan Ladd wasn’t that much more emotive than those guys in the acting stakes. But I concede that Mumbles was a better actor than [whispers) Lord Statham, but can he kick higher than Jase? Aha there you are. (Bob rolls his eyes]

    2. Hey Bob….I had never heard of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning before doing this page. It was much more popular in your neck of the woods than it was over here. I read that it was a Top 5 hit in England…..it did not even reach 1 million in rentals in North America. Between The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Tom Jones…Albert Finney got off to a great movie start.

      I do not want to tell you this….but your breakdown of Finney is pretty close to Joel’s breakdown of Finney…..you guys think alike a lot more than you are willing to admit…lol.

      Good information on his net worth (seems a little low for 50 plus years of being a movie star) and his honors, Good to know he has a decent IMDb rank….but he would not be that high on my personal list. Good feedback as always.

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      1. As I’ve said Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was part of the “kitchen sink” movies craze that took hold of the British cinema and wider arts field over here in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Those movies gave us some great performances such as apart from Finney’s Arthur Seaton, Richard Harris in This Sporting life and Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving but otherwise were drab dry goods affairs.

        You had no blonde bombshells like Harlow and Monroe running around in them nor “clothes horses” such as Crawford and Loretta Young. Instead the women slaved over stoves, washed dishes in dirty looking kitchen sinks and were often seen standing about in hair curlers doing their ironing in their living rooms.

        Tto escape the drabness of their lives they would engage in adulterous affairs and iin Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Finney got a Brando-type On the Waterfront savage beating from the mates of a jealous husband for being involved with one of those women. I think the “low” sex as much as anything sold them over here.

        It has often been said by British critics that “Americans don’t like losers” and most of the leading characters in those movies were “losers” of one kind or another at least by US entertainment industry standards, so it doesn’t surprise me that Yanks preferred Sat Night Fever to Sat Night/Sun Morn.

        Whilst I admired many of the actors involved in the kitchen sink movies I didn’t much care for the films themselves and was relieved when Sir Maurice came along in 1966’s Alfie and for me glamorised the Brit working class womaniser into a more entertaining figure. For that alone Sir M deserved his knighthood in my view. I do admire Finney though for in real-life seemingly staying true to the ethos of his working class hero in that long ago Sat Night/Sun Morning.

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      2. Hi Your Ladyship

        Thanks for clarification. Until I got it I was ready to take to the hills and quit the human race.

        However I am still on my guard because as the saying goes “many a true word is spoken in jest.” Remember massive commercial hype got the awful Stallone nominated and I see that you still tip Jase for an OBE. Remind me what OBE stands for – Order of the B******s Empire?

        “Oscars can be misleading and are often plain silly. Victor McLaglan got one for the 1935 movie The Informer and he was a man who couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag.” [Humphrey DeForest Bogart]

        I personally think though that Arnie’s saving grace was that he could do dry humour in playing out his action hero roles.

        MARTIN CRANE Well son we’ve just been to our first Jean Claude Van Damme movie together. What did you learn from it?

        FRASIER CRANE I learned dad that if a man can kick his legs 20 feet into the air even a hail of bullets from 20 machine guns can’t harm him.
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        1. Ho ho ho Bob, your knickers are still in a twist over Statham. If you hadn’t spent so much time watching mawkish weepies and trilling schoolgirls in your youth, you might have appreciated the odd action movie or two, and not have to cover your ears during a car chase or look away every time someone gets shot.

          I thought Stallone did pretty well in those early Rocky films and is a much better actor than you might think. I dare say better than Alan Ladd who rarely changed his expression from film to film and made a good living out of it.
          Btw Stallone will be playing Rocky Balboa yet again in the upcoming Creed II. [Bob jumps with joy]

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          1. “Alan Ladd was a really good actor and some people didn’t appreciate that. His films pleased millions.” Robert Preston

            “Ladd was the most athletic actor that I’ve ever seen.” James Mason

          2. Hey Steve….not only does Stallone have a Rocky movie coming out….but a new Rambo movie is coming too. In the new Rambo, he is taking on a Mexican drug cartel…..and gets to ride a horse….looks like Sly’s first western (I think he never made one before)…Arnold has made one….the truly horrible The Villain.

            Hey Bob…harsh comment from Bogie on Victor….I actually thought Victor had some acting chops….lol. Good stuff as always.

  5. I’ve seen 17 of the 43 films on the chart, more than I thought.

    Favorites include – Wolfen, Murder on the Orient Express, Tom Jones, Bourne Ultimatum, Bourne Legacy, Big Fish, Traffic and Skyfall.

    The Hindenburg? I’ve seen that film a bunch of times and Finney wasn’t in it. How did it get listed here?

    Tom Jones was his biggest success and a big Oscar winner too.

    Wolfen is an underrated horror and a big favorite of mine, I watched it many times on video tape back in the 80s and 90s. Good use of stereo surround too.

    Good work Bruce. Vote Up!

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    1. Hey Steve….thanks for checking out our latest page. I made sure to include your You Tube video….which you got done well before I did. I have seen 22 of these movies. My favorites would include Big Fish, Loophole and A Good Year (those are my …as bob cox says…hidden gems) as well as his bigger movies like Murder on the Orient Express, Erin B and his first Bourne movie.

      Yep…you are 100% correct….The Hindenburg does not has Albert Finney in it. Somehow…I included 4 Anne Bancroft movies on the table…I have no idea how I did that….now I need to check and make sure she still has those movies on her UMR page.

      I remember when Wolfen and The Howling came out so close together…I liked both of them….but it seems Wolfen played on HBO a lot more than The Howling did.

      Thanks for the votes, tally, visit and comment.

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