Tom Courtenay
Acting
Born: February 25, 1937 (age 89) · Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Courtenay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The Golden Compass
2007
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Doctor Zhivago
1965
The Aeronauts
2019
45 Years
2015
Gambit
2012
King of Thieves
2018
The Queen's Corgi
2019
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
Quartet
2012
The Railway Children Return
2022
Summerland
2020
Photos (2)
Movies (50)
The Golden Compass
Farder Coram
Doctor Zhivago
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
King of Thieves
Kenny Collins
The Queen's Corgi
The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
Night Train to Lisbon
Older João Eca
Gambit
The Major
The Night of the Generals
Corporal Hartmann
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Eben Ramsey
The Aeronauts
Arthur Glaisher
45 Years
Geoff Mercer
Dad's Army
Lance Corporal Jones
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Chief Superintendent McManaman
Flood
Leonard Morrison
Summerland
Mr. Sullivan
Operation Crossbow
Robert Henshaw
Quartet
Reginald Paget
Last Orders
Vic
Nicholas Nickleby
Newman Noggs
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith
King Rat
Grey
A Dandy in Aspic
Gatiss
The Railway Children Return
Uncle Walter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Bronislaw Malinowski
Billy Liar
William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
The Dresser
Norman
The Last Butterfly
Antoine Moreau
Leonard Part 6
Frayn
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Harold Smith
Grandpa's Great Escape
Grandpa
Let Him Have It
William Bentley
King and Country
Pvt. Arthur Hamp
Redemption
Stan Peachey
Happy New Year
Edward Saunders
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Joe McGill
Otley
Gerald Arthur Otley
Catch Me a Spy
Baxter Clarke
Cinderella: After Ever After
The King
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich
The Day the Fish Came Out
The Navigator
A Rather English Marriage
Roy Southgate
The Chester Mystery Plays
Jesus
Me and the Girls
George
Private Potter
Pvt. Potter
The Boy from Mercury
Uncle Tony Cronin
The Old Curiosity Shop
Daniel Quilp
The End of an Era
Dr Blatella (voice)
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
Dave Best Sr.
Famous Fred
Kenneth (voice)
Absent Friends
Colin
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Mark Brian
TV Shows (8)
BBC Play of the Month
Jesus · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Oswald Alving · 1 eps
Unforgotten
Eric Slater · 6 eps
ScreenPlay
Stanley Peachey · 1 eps
The North Water
Baxter · 1 eps
Little Dorrit
Mr. Dorrit · 14 eps
Mandy
Engineer Woodcock · 1 eps
Theatre Night
Colin · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (9)
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · 2 eps
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Self · 1 eps
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
Moscow in Madrid
Self
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Self
The First Film
Himself
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Self
