📱 eBook en inglés Albert Finney

Hershman has managed to gather a huge amount of information and distill it into a book that is not only respectful but full of insights into what makes this unstarriest of stars able to produce brilliant work without appearing to break a sweat. - Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

He was a Salford-born, homework-hating bookies son who broke the social barriers of British film. He did his share of roistering, and yet outlived his contemporaries and dodged typecasting to become a five-time Oscar nominee and one of our most durable international stars. Bon vivant, perennial rebel, self-effacing character actor, charismatic charmer, mentor to a generation of working-class artists, a byword for professionalism, lover of horseflesh and female flesh – Albert Finney is all these things and more.

Gabriel Hershmans colourful and riveting account of Finneys life and work, which draws on interviews with many of his directors and co-stars, examines how one of Britains greatest actors built a glittering career without sacrificing his integrity.