Tom Courtenay
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.109 |
| Birthday | 1937-02-25 |
| Place of Birth | Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Thomas Daniel Courtenay, Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay, |
2007
The Golden Compass
6.085/4929
In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan...
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The Golden Compass
2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
7/1
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...
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
1969
Otley
6.3/24
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
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Otley
2007
Flood
5.288/165
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...
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Flood
1987
Leonard Part 6
2.9/73
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter,...
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Leonard Part 6
1963
Billy Liar
6.8/127
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...
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Billy Liar
1965
King Rat
7.165/82
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....
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King Rat
1983
The Dresser
6.8/83
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggle...
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The Dresser
1965
Operation Crossbow
6.75/124
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...
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Operation Crossbow
1967
The Night of the Generals
6.794/189
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...
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The Night of the Generals
2001
Last Orders
6/82
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...
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Last Orders
1967
The Day the Fish Came Out
4.8/15
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...
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The Day the Fish Came Out
1962
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
7.234/175
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor throu...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1991
Let Him Have It
6.667/51
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...
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Let Him Have It
1995
The Old Curiosity Shop
7.2/4
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
2026
Queen at Sea
0/0
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, na...
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Queen at Sea
1998
A Rather English Marriage
5.5/13
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...
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A Rather English Marriage
1965
Moscow in Madrid
7/1
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...
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Moscow in Madrid
2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
6.227/22
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
1968
A Dandy in Aspic
6.9/28
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...
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A Dandy in Aspic
1971
Catch Me a Spy
5/17
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...
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Catch Me a Spy
1964
King and Country
7.1/66
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...
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King and Country
2012
Gambit
5.523/741
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...
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Gambit
2012
Quartet
6.495/396
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they t...
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Quartet
1985
Me and the Girls
3/3
Ken Taylor's adaptation of the Noel Coward short story, "Me and the Girls", one of a series called "Noel Coward's The Master's Collection". George Ban...
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Me and the Girls
1991
The Last Butterfly
5.818/11
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...
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The Last Butterfly
1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
6.688/8
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...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1987
Happy New Year
5.8/11
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...
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Happy New Year
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
6.494/442
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which...
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Night Train to Lisbon
1996
Famous Fred
5.8/9
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...
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Famous Fred
1973
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
6.75/4
A young priest is sent to an indigenous village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shred...
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
1996
The Boy from Mercury
8/2
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...
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The Boy from Mercury
2015
The Legend of Barney Thomson
6.092/211
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...
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015
45 Years
6.6/807
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...
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45 Years
1965
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
8.5/2
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles i...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
1985
Absent Friends
7/1
Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn.
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Absent Friends
2016
Dad's Army
4.987/225
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...
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Dad's Army
2004
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
7.3/3
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
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1965
Doctor Zhivago
7.552/1306
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...
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Doctor Zhivago
2002
Nicholas Nickleby
6.843/204
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...
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Nicholas Nickleby
1991
Redemption
7/1
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
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Redemption
2018
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
7.392/1425
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when sh...
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
6.1/16
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...
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Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
King of Thieves
5.559/468
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in Britis...
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King of Thieves
2020
Summerland
7.509/233
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Summerland
1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
5.647/34
The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thril...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
2019
The Aeronauts
6.804/1225
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly h...
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The Aeronauts
2019
The Queen's Corgi
5.9/456
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 arr...
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The Queen's Corgi
2015
The First Film
6.2/6
Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in...
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The First Film
1962
Private Potter
5.5/4
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
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Private Potter
2008
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
7.7/3
Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to cook Christmas dinner for the family. Jim provides the...
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The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2019
Cinderella: After Ever After
7.1/16
Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Cinderella: After Ever After
2011
The End of an Era
0/0
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...
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The End of an Era
2022
The Railway Children Return
6.5/266
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,...
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The Railway Children Return
2010
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
8.4/4
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...
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The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
6/1
The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
1976
The Chester Mystery Plays
0/0
Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.
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The Chester Mystery Plays
1988
Chekhov in Yalta
0/0
A visit by the Moscow Arts Theatre company to Chekhov's country villa at Yalta in 1900. Based on the stage play by John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow.
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