Discovering: Peter Finch
SKY ARTS, 9.00PM
Spotted by Laurence Olivier and taken under his wing in the late Forties, Peter Finch would go on to win an astonishing five Best Actor Baftas. His defining roles included a gay doctor in Sunday Bloody Sunday, a gallant POW in A Town Like Alice and (of course) the “mad as hell” news anchor Howard Beale in Network, which brought him a posthumous Oscar as well as Bafta number five. This diligent and entertaining profile acknowledges the hellraising, while paying tribute to his real talent. GT