Obituary

Albert Finney: Bookie's son who rose to stardom

17 February 2019 - 00:00

By Daily Telegraph

Albert Finney, who has died at the age of 82, was one of several British actors regarded in the 1950s as a successor to Laurence Olivier, who he once understudied in Coriolanus.

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