Tom Courtenay
Birthday: 1937-02-25
Place of Birth: Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
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The Golden Compass
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence r...
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai...
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Flood
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high s...
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Leonard Part 6
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurate...
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Billy Liar
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertake...
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King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...
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The Dresser
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brillian...
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Operation Crossbow
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...
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The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He ...
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Last Orders
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he...
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The Day the Fish Came Out
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent pan...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks o...
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Let Him Have It
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d...
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Queen at Sea
A woman moves back to London with her teenage daughter amid concern for her aging mother....
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A Rather English Marriage
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after ...
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Moscow in Madrid
When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do l...
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto p...
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A Dandy in Aspic
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them a...
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Catch Me a Spy
While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, sh...
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King and Country
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The office...
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Gambit
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, ...
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Quartet
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celeb...
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Me and the Girls
Ken Taylor's adaptation of the Noel Coward short story, "Me and the Girls", one of a series called "...
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The Last Butterfly
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Te...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely ad...
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Happy New Year
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Us...
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Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upo...
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Famous Fred
Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar,...
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
A young priest is sent to an indigenous village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanit...
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The Boy from Mercury
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his ...
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uni...
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45 Years
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party i...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains w...
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Dad's Army
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon de...
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say...
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Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends ...
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Redemption
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wan...
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guer...
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Grandpa's Great Escape
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer'...
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King of Thieves
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to ...
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Summerland
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be ri...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The...
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The Aeronauts
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher t...
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The Queen's Corgi
Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his t...
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The First Film
Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds fil...
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Private Potter
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a tr...
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The Royle Family: The New Sofa
Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to cook...
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Cinderella: After Ever After
Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be....
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The End of an Era
Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental ...
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The Railway Children Return
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, whe...
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The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scen...
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and...
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