As good as it gets.

Many actors have tried their hand at Churchill, most recently Gary Oldman whose performance in a horribly fictitious movie (WSC taking advice from a black man on the Underground? Please. …) garnered him an Oscar. But the definitive performance is by Albert Finney, true to the accurate biography by Martin Gilbert. And, truth in biographies of great men is a concept devoutely to be wished, and all the rarer for that.

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Albert Finney died today leaving a legacy of great performances. None was finer than his WSC in ‘The Gathering Storm’.