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Finney is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

His career began in the theatre ; he made his first appearance on the London stage in 1958 in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester.

Then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( as Coriolanus ), Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave.