A 1964 film remake was directed by Karel Reisz from a script by Clive Exton, and starred Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, and Sheila Hancock, but was not as successful as the original film.

It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham Playhouse, with Ian McKellen playing one of his first leading roles ..

In the early 1960s, Karel Reisz and Albert Finney announced plans to make a film about Ned Kelly from a screenplay by David Storey.

Finney and Reisz flew to Australia in October 1962 and spent ten weeks picking locations and doing research.

At the age of sixteen he went to New Castle, Delaware to begin the study of law under his cousin, David Finney.

" He went on to say that " it was acted with unmatchable brio by Smith and Finney, by Derek Jacobi as an incomparable Brindsley, and by Graham Crowden as a savagely lunatic Colonel Melkett.

Finney himself, while opposed to slavery, placed his chief emphasis on evangelism, but from his converts issued much of the leadership of the anti-slavery campaign.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express.

" Spiegel disliked O ' Toole, having worked with him on Suddenly, Last Summer ( where O ' Toole was an understudy for Montgomery Clift and considered to take over his part after Clift's alcoholism caused problems ), but acceded to Lean's demands after Finney and Brando dropped out.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

A lifelong supporter of Manchester United, Finney narrated the documentary Munich, about the aircrash that killed most of the Busby Babes in 1958, which was shown on United's TV channel MUTV in February 2008.

Albert Finney won a Golden Globe as Scrooge in a musical film in 1970 but critical consensus deems the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim the very best adaptation on film ( Kelly 28 ).

Originally producer Wanger and Siegel wanted to shoot Invasion of the Body Snatchers on location in the town Jack Finney described in his novel: Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco.

The original Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873 and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney ), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

George Finney first settled on the site of Odessa in 1886.

Bisset received a fourth Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for John Huston's Under the Volcano, which reunited her with Albert Finney, having worked with him previously in Two for the Road and Murder on the Orient Express.

Carney beat Dustin Hoffman, Albert Finney, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, for their performances in Lenny, Murder on the Orient Express, Chinatown and The Godfather Part II, for the 1974 Academy Award for Best Actor, while the film was nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

John Ingersoll filled the pulpit for American revivalist Charles G. Finney while Finney was on a tour of Europe.

Finney was a primary influence on the " revival " style of theology which emerged in the 19th century.

* Articles on Finney ( conservative Calvinist perspective ; critical )

* Trooper Christopher Finney of the Blues and Royals was awarded the George Cross on 31 October 2003 for gallantry during a friendly fire incident in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Nolan's alternate take on Campbell's story downplays monster elements in favor of an " imposter " theme, in a vein similar to the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.

Parkinson is a supporter of Preston North End football club, and in November 1988 paid a tribute to Tom Finney on This Is Your Life.

Finney was particularly generous to Reynolds, programming three of his pieces on the Midwest Composers Symposium, which was " unheard of " for student works.

The principal character of ' Karaoke ' is Daniel Feeld ( played by Albert Finney ), an English playwright in late middle-age who is working on the television production of his latest play, itself entitled ' Karaoke '.

At a cryogenic research institute in London, funded by the pharmaceuticals tycoon Martina Masdon ( played by Diane Ladd ), a group of scientists led by Dr. Emma Porlock ( Frances de la Tour ) is working on reviving the mind of the 20th century writer Daniel Feeld ( Albert Finney ), whose head was frozen after Feeld's death at the end of " Karaoke ".

Dr. Larry Roberts ( Albert Finney ), a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is puzzled when four beautiful models working in television commercials request cosmetic surgery to make changes so minor as to be imperceptible to the naked eye.

In 1959 she appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall as Helena in A Midsummer's Night Dream opposite Charles Laughton as Bottom and Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( in the title role ), Albert Finney and Edith Evans.

Later, he would witness Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the bug would bite: " I thought ' I could be that geezer '" he said later.

It was made into a film in 1937 with Robert Montgomery, and again in 1964 with Albert Finney.

7 Faces of Dr. Lao is a Metrocolor 1964 film adaptation of the 1935 fantasy novel The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney.

A marked impulse came to the anti-slavery movement through the Finney revivals.

A strong temperance advocate, through the influence of a favorite teacher, Charles Stewart, another Finney convert, he devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause.

Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.

Charlton was handed his debut as England romped home 4 – 0, with the new player gaining even more admirers after scoring a magnificent thumping volley dispatched with authority after a cross by the left winger Tom Finney.

A hat-trick in the 8 – 1 rout of Switzerland in June 1963 took Charlton's England goal tally to 30, equalling the record jointly held by Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse and Charlton's 31st goal against Wales in October the same year gave him the record alone.

* Thomas / Finney.

Charles Grandison Finney was an important preacher of this period.

It was to overshadow Peter Hall's 1978 production with Albert Finney as Macbeth and Dorothy Tutin as Lady Macbeth.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

McKean was born in New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, the son of William McKean and Letitia Finney.

In 1977 a made-for-TV docudrama titled Wilma ( also known as The Story of Wilma Rudolph ) was produced by Bud Greenspan ; it starred Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard and Denzel Washington in one of his first roles.

The First Great Awakening ( under Jonathan Edwards and others ) in the mid-18th century and the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century ( under Charles Grandison Finney, among others ) emphasized personal piety, revivals, and devotion to civic duty.

Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.

Albert Finney, at the time a virtual unknown, was Lean's first choice to play Lawrence, but Finney was not sure the film would be a success and turned it down.

Albert Finney ( born 9 May 1936 ) is an English actor.

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

Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's production of Lawrence of Arabia after a successful, and elaborate, screen-test that took 4 days to shoot.