The British Rascal

 Albert Finney passed away at 82. He was at the forefront of the British film movement in the early sixties which peaked with the wonderful, Oscar winning classic, Tom Jones. He had five Oscar nominations and a variety of roles that ranged from turning down Lawrence of Arabia to being Detective Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express to Erin Brockovich's cantankerous boss to more recent roles in the Bourne series, Skyfall and Big Fish. He and Audrey Hepburn made a darling couple in Two for the Road, and he excelled as the husband in a tragic marriage in the great Shoot the Moon. There were so many more roles in a long and distinguished career.