Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney

By Gabriel Hershman

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750978864
• ISBN13: 9780750978866
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"