An English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963), and Dr. Zhivago (1965). Since the mid-1960s he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre. Courtenay received a knighthood in February 2001 for forty years’ service to cinema and theatre. Courtenay is the President of Hull City A.F.C.’s Official Supporters Club. In 1999, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University.
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Tom Courtenay Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tom Courtenay |
| Also Know | Sir Thomas Daniel “Tom” Courtenay, 톰 커트니 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1937-02-25 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday |
Tom Courtenay Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Otley | Gerald Arthur Otley | 1969-03-11 | A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent…. |
| Billy Liar | William Terrence ‘Billy’ Fisher | 1963-08-15 | A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him… |
| The Day the Fish Came Out | The Navigator | 1967-09-27 | A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who a… |
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Harold Smith | 2000-03-10 | It’s 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can’t decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker…. |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Mark Brian | 1973-12-18 | A young priest named mark is sent as a vicar to a native American village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their c… |
| Me and the Girls | George | 1985-12-01 | George Banks recalls his past life travelling in charge of a dancing troupe…. |
| The Last Butterfly | Antoine Moreau | 1991-01-01 | Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a “model” concentration camp, to convince t… |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Ivan Denisovich | 1970-12-07 | Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin’s Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn’s classic novel based on h… |
| Ready When You Are, Mr McGill | Joe McGill | 2003-01-01 | Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos… |
| Redemption | Stan Peachey | 1991-07-03 | After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?… |
| Grandpa’s Great Escape | Grandpa | 2018-01-01 | Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. When his family can no longer look afte… |
| Private Potter | Pvt. Potter | 1962-01-01 | A military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision…. |
| The End of an Era | Dr Blatella (voice) | 2011-09-30 | Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental debates. This animation takes an insect eye view t… |
| Flood | Leonard Morrison | 2007-08-24 | Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra… |
| Leonard Part 6 | Frayn | 1987-12-18 | After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da… |
| The Dresser | Norman | 1983-12-06 | In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand – the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles… |
| Last Orders | Vic | 2001-09-10 | Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watchi… |
| The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Colin Smith | 1962-09-20 | A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance r… |
| A Rather English Marriage | Roy Southgate | 1998-12-30 | A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They… |
| A Dandy in Aspic | Gatiss | 1968-04-02 | Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is … |
| King and Country | Pvt. Arthur Hamp | 1964-09-05 | During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Cap… |
| Quartet | Reginald Paget | 2012-09-08 | The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigo… |
| Famous Fred | Kenneth (voice) | 1996-12-24 | Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar, but a case of cat flu threatens to cut short his … |
| The Boy from Mercury | Uncle Tony Cronin | 1996-12-06 | Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he’s been sent from Mercury to… |
| Absent Friends | Colin | 1985-09-29 | Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn…. |
| 45 Years | Geoff Mercer | 2015-08-04 | There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her hu… |
| The First Film | Himself | 2015-07-03 | Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson’s thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in… |
| King Rat | Grey | 1965-10-27 | When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison…. |
| The Night of the Generals | Corporal Hartmann | 1967-01-29 | A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute’s killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, tw… |
| Let Him Have It | William Bentley | 1991-10-04 | In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangs… |
| Happy New Year | Edward Saunders | 1987-08-07 | Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old … |
| King of Thieves | Kenny Collins | 2018-09-04 | London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in Britis… |
| The Aeronauts | Arthur Glaisher | 2019-11-04 | In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly h… |
| The Railway Children Return | Uncle Walter | 2022-07-15 | Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, … |
| Moscow in Madrid | Self | 1965-12-31 | When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a lo… |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Daniel Quilp | 1995-03-19 | 1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of mon… |
| Catch Me a Spy | Baxter Clarke | 1971-09-06 | While on vacation, a woman’s husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and… |
| Gambit | The Major | 2012-04-25 | An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and… |
| Cinderella: After Ever After | The King | 2019-12-24 | Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A Sky original starring David Walliams and Sian Gibson… |
| Night Train to Lisbon | Older João Eca | 2013-03-07 | Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which… |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye | Bronislaw Malinowski | 1995-01-16 | In the eighteenth film in the series, in late 1918, the Great War may have ended, but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man’s dying wo… |
| Summerland | Mr. Sullivan | 2020-07-24 | A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him…. |
| The New Sofa | Dave Best Sr. | 2008-12-25 | Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to cook Christmas dinner for the family. Jim provides the… |
| Operation Crossbow | Robert Henshaw | 1965-04-01 | Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between Ger… |
| The Legend of Barney Thomson | Chief Superintendent McManaman | 2015-07-24 | Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in fiv… |
| Doctor Zhivago | Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov | 1965-12-22 | The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship dur… |
| Dad’s Army | Lance Corporal Jones | 2016-02-05 | A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad’s Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German … |
| The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society | Eben Ramsey | 2018-04-19 | Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when sh… |
| The Golden Compass | Farder Coram | 2007-12-04 | After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor… |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Newman Noggs | 2002-12-27 | Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly… |
| The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa | Self | 2010-11-10 | Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scenes at the production of the show and interviews wi… |
| Sir John Mills’ Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | 2000-08-01 | A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills’ Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain’s most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter… |
| The Queen’s Corgi | The Duke of Edinburgh (voice) | 2019-02-13 | Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty’s heart. His a… |
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