Question

Do you think albeart performed on the stage why

Answer 1

Because he made his name on screen in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Albert Finney was often characterised as one of the new rugged, working-class school of actors. In fact, his father was a successful Salford bookmaker and, on stage, Finney was built in the heroic mould. He had that indefinable quality called “weight” and played many of the big roles: Macbeth and Hamlet, Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Pirandello’s Henry IV. He could do farce and comedy equally well but you felt he was born to play the classic heavies. The irony is that the nearest he got to playing King Lear was as “Sir” in the movie of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresse