In 'The Dresser,' Anthony Hopkins Brilliantly Comes Undone Anthony Hopkins says his turn as an aged and increasingly faulty actor ... Then it became a movie in 1983 with Albert Finney and Tom ...

Anthony Hopkins, Ian McKellen team for 'Dresser' Bill Keveney. ... (The play was also made into a 1983 film starring Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney.) Years ago, Hopkins, 78, ...

The 1983 film of Ronald Harwood’s backstage play The Dresser starred Albert Finney as a domineering actor who called himself “Sir” and Tom Courtenay as his “dresser” Norman.