Actor
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 Univers ...

Known For
Acting
2022 -- The Railway Children Return | Uncle Walter
2020 -- Summerland | Mr. Sullivan
2019 -- Cinderella: After Ever After | The King
2019 -- The Aeronauts | Arthur Glaisher
2019 -- The Queen's Corgi | The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
2018 -- King of Thieves | Kenny Collins
2018 -- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society | Eben Ramsey
2018 -- Grandpa's Great Escape | Grandpa
2016 -- Dad's Army | Lance Corporal Jones
2015 -- 45 Years | Geoff Mercer
2015 -- The Legend of Barney Thomson | Chief Superintendent McManaman
2015 -- The First Film | Himself
2013 -- Night Train to Lisbon | Older João Eca
2012 -- Quartet | Reginald Paget
2012 -- Gambit | The Major
2011 -- The End of an Era | Dr Blatella (voice)
2010 -- The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa | Self
2008 -- The New Sofa | Dave Best Sr.
2007 -- The Golden Compass | Farder Coram
2007 -- Flood | Leonard Morrison
2004 -- Ready When You Are, Mr McGill | Joe McGill
2002 -- Nicholas Nickleby | Newman Noggs
2002 -- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye | Bronislaw Malinowski
2001 -- Last Orders | Vic
2000 -- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage)
2000 -- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Harold Smith
1998 -- A Rather English Marriage | Roy Southgate
1996 -- Famous Fred | Kenneth (voice)
1996 -- The Boy from Mercury | Uncle Tony Cronin
1995 -- The Old Curiosity Shop | Daniel Quilp
1991 -- Let Him Have It | William Bentley
1991 -- Redemption | Stan Peachey
1991 -- The Last Butterfly | Antoine Moreau
1987 -- Leonard Part 6 | Frayn
1987 -- Happy New Year | Edward Saunders
1985 -- Me and the Girls | George
1985 -- Absent Friends | Colin
1983 -- The Dresser | Norman
1973 -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Mark Brian
1971 -- Catch Me a Spy | Baxter Clarke
1970 -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Ivan Denisovich
1969 -- Otley | Gerald Arthur Otley
1968 -- A Dandy in Aspic | Gatiss
1967 -- The Day the Fish Came Out | The Navigator
1967 -- The Night of the Generals | Corporal Hartmann
1965 -- Moscow in Madrid | Self
1965 -- Doctor Zhivago | Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
1965 -- King Rat | Grey
1965 -- Operation Crossbow | Robert Henshaw
1965 -- Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean | Self
1964 -- King and Country | Pvt. Arthur Hamp
1963 -- Billy Liar | William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
1962 -- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Colin Smith
1962 -- Private Potter | Pvt. Potter
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