Albert Finney left £100,000 from his £400,000 estate to NHS cancer hospital the Royal Marsden where he was cared for before he died aged 82, documents reveal
- The five-times Oscar nominee bequeathed a £402,743 estate after he died
- The Hollywood star passed away after a chest infection in February last year
- He had also been suffering from kidney cancer for several years
Actor Albert Finney left £100,000 from his £400,000 estate to the Royal Marsden cancer hospital in which he was cared for until his death last year.
The five-times Oscar nominee – whose glittering career saw him appear in films including Tom Jones, Erin Brockovich and Skyfall – bequeathed a £402,743 estate after he died.
The Hollywood star passed away after a chest infection in February last year, aged 82, at the Marsden’s main hospital site, in Chelsea, South-West London.
In 2007, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
In his newly-released will, which he signed in August 2015, Mr Finney pledged a £100,000 charitable donation to the NHS trust, where he was cared for before his death.
Actor Albert Finney left £100,000 from his £400,000 estate to the Royal Marsden cancer hospital in which he was cared for until his death last year. Pictured: The star with his wife Pene Delmage in 2001
The NHS trust has a second site in Sutton, South London.
A grant of probate from July 2019, named his wife Penelope Finney and a man named Adrian Nelson as executors to his will.
Penelope is also now director and secretary of her late husband’s firm, Memorial Films Limited.
The actor left Memorial Films to the son from his first marriage, Simon Finney, who worked as a camera operator on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The five-times Oscar nominee – whose glittering career saw him appear in films including Tom Jones, Erin Brockovich and Skyfall (pictured) – bequeathed a £402,743 estate after he died
Penelope, Simon Finney and his children, and other distant relations were left what was left of the iconic actor’s estate.
Finney also had a starring role as the cold-hearted lead character in Ronald Neame’s 1970 hit Christmas film, Scrooge, which is based on Charles Dickens’ 1834 story, A Christmas Carol.
Dickens described Scrooge as ‘a squeezing, grasping, scraping, covetous, old sinner!’ who hated Christmas.
Finney’s breakthrough movie came with his leading role in the 1960 British Kitchen sink drama Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.
His other notable performances include his masterclass as Winston Churchill in the 2002 movie, The Gathering Storm, for which he won a Bafta and an Emmy.
He also played Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express.
Finney’s last appearance on the big screen came when he starred alongside Daniel Craig in 2012 James Bond blockbuster, Skyfall.
Finney also had a starring role as the cold-hearted lead character in Ronald Neame’s 1970 hit Christmas film, Scrooge, which is based on Charles Dickens’ 1834 story, A Christmas Carol