Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney
Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney by Gabriel Hershman
English | May 1, 2017 | ISBN: 0750978864 | EPUB | 288 pages | 3.1 MB
English | May 1, 2017 | ISBN: 0750978864 | EPUB | 288 pages | 3.1 MB
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.