Peter finch biography
Actor peter finch biography
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A charismatic leading man, who filmed internationally, winning a posthumous Oscar and BAFTA for the overwrought Network (US, d. Sidney Lumet, 1976), but remained essentially a British star.
Born in London on 28 September 1916 and raised in Australia from age 10 (his own accounts of his unconventional youth are notoriously variable), he came back to England in the late 1940s, having been spotted in Australia by Laurence Olivier, who cast him in the Old Vic'sDaphne Laureola.
He appeared in a half-dozen Australian films, before and during WW2; his first British film role was as the murderer in Ealing's Train of Events ('The Actor' segment, d. Basil Dearden, 1949).
Thereafter, films dominated his career.
Peter finch biography
He seemed to work non-stop during the 1950s, appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men (d. Ken Annakin, 1952), D'Oyly Carte in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (d.
Sidney Gilliat, 1953), the cultivated thief Flambeau in Fat