Albert Finney Remembered By Co-Stars & Colleagues: 'Skyfall' Director Sam Mendes Recalls "One Of The Greats" Albert Finney Dies: 'Tom Jones', 'Skyfall' Actor Was 82 ...

An appreciation of five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney who played everything from an amorous rogue in Tom Jones to Pope John Paul II. He died Thursday at 82.

Finney was nominated five times for an Oscar, four for best actor: as the title character in “Tom Jones,” Tony Richardson’s 1963 adaptation of the Henry Fielding novel; as Poirot in ...

A recipient of BAFTA , Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards, Finney was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient ...

That last reference was to one of Finney's most famous film roles, the title character in Tom Jones, the 1963 best picture winner directed by Tony Richardson that catapulted Finney to stardom.