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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-02-25 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Tom Courtenay

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.

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Known For

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Would I Lie to You?

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BBC Play of the Month

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The Royle Family

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Unforgotten

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Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

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Parkinson

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The Golden Compass

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Doctor Zhivago

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The North Water

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The Queen's Corgi

Acting

2024

Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self

2022

The Railway Children Return as Uncle Walter

2021

The North Water as Baxter

2020

Summerland as Mr. Sullivan

Mandy as Engineer Woodcock

2019

The Aeronauts as Arthur Glaisher

The Queen's Corgi as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)

Cinderella: After Ever After as The King

2018

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society as Eben Ramsey

Grandpa's Great Escape as Grandpa

King of Thieves as Kenny Collins

2017

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule as Self

2016

Dad's Army as Lance Corporal Jones

2015

The Legend of Barney Thomson as Chief Superintendent McManaman

45 Years as Geoff Mercer

The First Film as Himself

Unforgotten as Eric Slater

2013

Night Train to Lisbon as Older João Eca

2012

Gambit as The Major

Quartet as Reginald Paget

2011

The End of an Era as Dr Blatella (voice)

2010

The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa as Self

2008

The New Sofa as Dave Best Sr.

Little Dorrit as Mr. Dorrit

2007

The Golden Compass as Farder Coram

Flood as Leonard Morrison

Would I Lie to You? as Self

2004

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Joe McGill

2002

Nicholas Nickleby as Newman Noggs

2001

Last Orders as Vic

2000

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Harold Smith

1998

A Rather English Marriage as Roy Southgate

The Royle Family as David Best Sr.

Parkinson as Self

1996

Famous Fred as Kenneth (voice)

The Boy from Mercury as Uncle Tony Cronin

1995

The Old Curiosity Shop as Daniel Quilp

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye as Bronislaw Malinowski

1993

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self

1991

Let Him Have It as William Bentley

The Last Butterfly as Antoine Moreau

Redemption as Stan Peachey

1987

Leonard Part 6 as Frayn

Happy New Year as Edward Saunders

1985

Me and the Girls as George

Absent Friends as Colin

1983

The Dresser as Norman

1973

I Heard the Owl Call My Name as Mark Brian

1971

Catch Me a Spy as Baxter Clarke

1970

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as Ivan Denisovich

1969

Otley as Gerald Arthur Otley

1968

A Dandy in Aspic as Gatiss

1967

The Night of the Generals as Corporal Hartmann

The Day the Fish Came Out as The Navigator

1965

King Rat as Grey

Operation Crossbow as Robert Henshaw

Moscow in Madrid as Self

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean as Self

Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

BBC Play of the Month as Jesus

1964

King and Country as Pvt. Arthur Hamp

1963

Billy Liar as William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher

1962

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner as Colin Smith

Private Potter as Pvt. Potter

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