Albert Finney, English actor
Mar. 22 Salford's Albert Finney, English actor, knows where he's going. Finney's future is going to be how he wants it.: If you should happen to drop into a pub behind London's Cambridge Theatre around lunchtime the chances are that you will see a young man with rather specialised good looks. He will be dressed with inconspicuous ordinariness, working class rather than West End. Artisan more than teenage teddy style. Yet this clean-shaven man who wags a finger as he talks over a pint, and heaps on the mustard to his beef sandwich, is the new-age Olivier, The man who turns down film offers of hundreds of thousands of pounds rather than forego his freedoms of choice and route to where he is going. He is Albert Finney. The star of Billy Liar turned down offers to play Lawrence of Arabia in a film and refuses to Lancashire's cotton town of Salford this is good going. The taste of the Tobacco and the taste of the Beer; both are good for Albert - Billy Liar - Finney
