Strolling Player
Author | : Gabriel Hershman |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2017-01-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780750981873 |
ISBN-13 | : 0750981873 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Albert Finney was a Salford-born, homework-hating bookie’s son who broke the social barriers of British film. He did his share of roistering, and yet outlived his contemporaries and dodged typecasting to become a five-time Oscar nominee and one of our most durable international stars. Bon vivant, perennial rebel, self-effacing character actor, charismatic charmer, mentor to a generation of working-class artists, a byword for professionalism, lover of horseflesh and female flesh – Albert Finney is all these things and more. Gabriel Hershman’s colourful and riveting account of Finney’s life and work, drawing on interviews with many of his directors and co-stars, examines how one of Britain’s greatest actors built a glittering career without sacrificing his integrity.