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RECENT CREDITS

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (FILM) Oct. 26, 2007

The Bourne Ultimatum (FILM) Aug. 3, 2007

Amazing Grace (FILM) Feb. 23, 2007

A Good Year (FILM) Nov. 10, 2006

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (FILM) Sep. 16, 2005

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HIGHLIGHTS

2007 Cast in "Amazing Grace," as John Newton the author of the hymn Amazing Grace

2007 Co-starred in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"

2006 Co-starred with Russell Crowe in director Ridley Scott's "A Good Year"

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2007 Cast in "Amazing Grace," as John Newton the author of the hymn Amazing Grace

2007 Co-starred in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"

2006 Co-starred with Russell Crowe in director Ridley Scott's "A Good Year"

2005 Voiced Finnis Everglot in Tim Burton's animated feature "Corpse Bride"

2003 Portrayed an Older Edward Bloom in "Big Fish"; directed by Tim Burton; received a golden globe nomination for best actor in a supporting role

2002 Portrayed Winston Churchill in "The Gathering Storm"; received a SAG nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie

2001 Cast as Ernest Hemingway in "Hemingway, The Hunter Of Death"

2000 Portrayed the title character's lawyer boss Ed Masry in "Erin Brockovich" directed by Steven Soderbergh; received a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination

2000 Made cameo appearance in the Soderbergh directed "Traffic"

2000 Starred opposite Bridget Fonda in "Delivering Milo"; screened at Cannes

1999 Co-starred with Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte in a film adaptation of Kurt Vonnnegut's "Breakfast of Champions"

1999 Played featured role of a former racing commissioner in "Simpatico"

1999 Reunited with Courtenay for the "Masterpiece Theatre" drama "A Rather English Marriage" (PBS)

1997 Portrayed the domineering doctor father of Jennifer Jason Leigh in Agnieska Holland's film version of Henry James' "Washington Square"

1997 Played the drunken Dr. Monygham in the lavish six-hour "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries presentation of "Joseph Conrad's 'Nostromo'" (PBS)

1996 Co-starred with Courtenay in the London stage production of "Art"

1996 Essayed permanently soused TV writer Daniel Feeld in two Dennis Potter-scripted BBC specials "Karaoke" and "Cold Lazarus" (aired in USA on Bravo)

1995 Reteamed with Yates for "The Run of the Country" once again playing an Irish cop

1994 Offered a masterful performance as the public school teacher-scholar at the center of Mike Figgis' remake of "The Browning Version"

1993 Delivered a fine performance as an eccentric Southern father in Bruce Beresford's "Rich in Love"

1992 Showed off an Irish brogue as the local police sergeant of a small Irish village in 1957 for "The Playboys"

1991 Gave rich, rewarding performance as a bedeviled innkeeper in the otherworldly thriller "The Green Man" (A&E)

1990 Appeared as Leo, the big city Irish crime lord of the Coen brothers' "Miller's Crossing"

1987 Reprised his stage role as a Chicago gangster with an authentic South Side accent in Alan J Pakula's film adaptation of "Orphans"

1984 Nominated a fourth time for a Best Actor Academy Award for Huston's "Under the Volcano"

1984 Formed theater company with actors Richard Johnson and Diana Rigg

1984 Made US TV acting debut in the title role of the CBS TV-movie "Pope John Paul II"

1983 Co-starred with fellow RADA alum Tom Courtenay in a film version of "The Dresser" directed by Peter Yates; both earned Oscar nominations for Best Actor

1982 Pocketed a reported $1 million to play Daddy Warbucks in John Huston's film version of "Annie"

1981 Returned to films in Alan Parker's look at a disintegrating marriage, "Shoot the Moon"; also co-starred Diane Keaton

1977 Recorded "Albert Finney's Album" (Motown Records)

1975 Joined National Theatre in London to concentrated on stage work

1974 Garnered a second Best Actor Oscar nod as Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet's "Murder on the Orient Express"

1972 - 1975 Served as an associate artistic director for the Royal Court Theatre in London; directed several plays

1970 Played the title role in Ronald Neame's musical film "Scrooge"

1968 Won a second Tony nomination for "A Day in the Life of Joe Egg"

1967 Film directing debut (also actor), "Charlie Bubbles"

1967 Co-starred with Audrey Hepburn as a bickering couple in Stanley Donen's "Two for the Road"

1965 Formed production company, Memorial Enterprises Ltd. (with actor Michael Medwin)

1964 First film as producer (also actor), Reisz's remake of "Night Must Fall"

1963 Received first Best Actor Oscar nomination, playing the title role in Richardson's "Tom Jones"

1963 Broadway debut, reprising the title role in "Luther" directed by Richardson; earned a Tony nomination

1962 Made stage directing debut with Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Citizens Theater in Glasgow, Scotland

1961 Played John Osborne's "Luther" in Paris, the Netherlands and London; directed by Richardson

1960 First collaboration with Lindsay Anderson, starring in Anderson's stage production of "The Lily-White Boys"

1960 London stage breakthrough, playing the title character in "Billy Liar"; replaced in role by Tom Courtenay who would star in John Schlesinger's 1963 film version

1960 Film acting debut as Olivier's son in "The Entertainer" helmed by Richardson

1960 First leading film role in Karel Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" produced by Richardson

1959 Performed at the famed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre as Edgar in "King Lear" and Cassio in "Othello" (directed by Tony Richardson)

1958 Had one scene opposite Charles Laughton in the West End production of "The Party"

1956 Stage acting debut with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in "Julius Caesar" playing as Brutus

1956 London stage debut with the Birmingham Rep at the Old Vic in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra"

Played the lead in fifteen school plays between the ages of 12 and 17

Joined the stock company of the Birmingham Repertory Company

Left David Lean's production of "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) after four days, because it would have entailed signing a seven-year contract with the studio; recommended RADA classmate Peter O'Toole for