Charles Hanson (Albert Finney) calls the police department to investigate about his wife's death, in a scene from Sidney Lumet's "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.".
Albert Finney, who has died aged 82, was one of several British actors regarded in the 1950s as a successor to Laurence Olivier, whom he once understudied in Coriolanus.
Though he eventually played a wide range of roles, he made his name in the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
as a British working-class rebel whom audiences identified as the archetypal angry young man.
Finney was born on May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire.
He was one of three children of Albert Finney Snr, a bookie, and Alice, nee Hobson, who had been a mill worker.
He attended Salford Grammar School, where he appeared in more than a dozen school plays. He failed his GCEs twice and was advised by his headmaster to drop academics for acting and apply to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where he won a two-year scholarship. He left Rada in 1955 and after two years with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, moved to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford.
