Tom Courtenay

Personal Info

Birthday

February 25, 1937

(88 years old)

Place of Birth

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

Also Known As

Sir Thomas Daniel "Tom" Courtenay

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汤姆·考特尼

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.

Known For

Unforgotten

BBC Play of the Month

The Golden Compass

Mandy

The North Water

Theatre Night

Little Dorrit

Doctor Zhivago

Filmography

2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2022
The Railway Children Return
as Uncle Walter
2020
Summerland
as Mr. Sullivan
2019
Cinderella: After Ever After
as The King
The Aeronauts
as Arthur Glaisher
The Queen's Corgi
as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
2018
King of Thieves
as Kenny Collins
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Eben Ramsey
Grandpa's Great Escape
as Grandpa
2016
Dad's Army
as Lance Corporal Jones
2015
The Legend of Barney Thomson
as Chief Superintendent McManaman
The First Film
as Himself
45 Years
as Geoff Mercer
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
as Older João Eca
2012
Quartet
as Reginald Paget
Gambit
as The Major
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.
2007
The Golden Compass
as Farder Coram
Flood
as Leonard Morrison
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
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
1991
Let Him Have It
as William Bentley
Redemption
as Stan Peachey
The Last Butterfly
as Antoine Moreau
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 Day the Fish Came Out
as The Navigator
The Night of the Generals
as Corporal Hartmann
1965
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
Doctor Zhivago
as Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
King Rat
as Grey
Operation Crossbow
as Robert Henshaw
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self
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