bill walker played atticus finch in to kill a mockingbird.
who played atticus finch in to kill a mockingbird?
bill walker
atticus finch is a fictional character in harper lee's pulitzer prize-winning novel of 1960, "to kill a mockingbird". a preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel "go set a watchman", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional maycomb county, alabama, and the father of jeremy "jem" finch and jean louise "scout" finch. lee based the character on her own father, amasa coleman lee, an alabama lawyer, who, like atticus, represented black defendants in a highly publicized criminal trial. "book magazine"s list of "the 100 best characters in fiction since 1900" names finch as the seventh best fictional character of 20th-century literature. in 2003 the american film institute voted atticus finch, as portrayed in an academy award-winning performance by gregory peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the greatest hero of all american cinema. in the 2018 broadway stage play adapted by aaron sorkin, finch is portrayed by jeff daniels.
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one of the most significant impacts "to kill a mockingbird" has had is atticus finch's model of integrity for the legal profession. as scholar alice petry explains, "atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person." morris dees of the southern poverty law center cites atticus finch as the reason he became a lawyer, and richard matsch, the federal judge who presided over the timothy mcveigh trial, counts atticus as a major judicial influence. one law professor at the university of notre dame stated that the most influential textbook he taught from was "to kill a mockingbird", and an article in the "michigan law review" claims, "no real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or public perception of the legal profession," before questioning whether "atticus finch is a paragon of honor or an especially slick hired gun".
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