Tom Courtenay
Acting1937Kingston-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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2022
The Railway Children Return
as Uncle Walter
Mandy
TVas Engineer Woodcock• 1 eps
2021
The North Water
TVas Baxter• 1 eps
2020
Summerland
as Mr. Sullivan
2019
The Aeronauts
as Arthur Glaisher
The Queen's Corgi
as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
Cinderella: After Ever After
as The King
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
TVas Self• 1 eps
2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
as Grandpa
King of Thieves
as Kenny Collins
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Eben Ramsey
2016
Dad's Army
as Lance Corporal Jones
2015
Barney Thomson
as Chief Superintendent McManaman
45 Years
as Geoff Mercer
The First Film
as Himself
Unforgotten
TVas Eric Slater• 6 eps
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
as Older João Eca
2011
The End of an Era
as Dr Blatella (voice)
2010
2008
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
as Dave Best Sr.
Little Dorrit
TVas Mr. Dorrit• 14 eps
2007
Flood
as Leonard Morrison
The Golden Compass
as Farder Coram
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
Parkinson
TVas Self• 1 eps
1998
A Rather English Marriage
as Roy Southgate
1996
Famous Fred
as Kenneth (voice)
The Boy from Mercury
as Uncle Tony Cronin
1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
as Bronislaw Malinowski
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Daniel Quilp
1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TVas Self• 2 eps
1991
1987
Happy New Year
as Edward Saunders
Leonard Part 6
as Frayn
1985
1983
The Dresser
as Norman
1976
The Chester Mystery Cycle
as Jesus
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
BBC Play of the Month
TVas Oswald Alving• 1 eps
1967
The Night of the Generals
as Corporal Hartmann
The Day the Fish Came Out
as The Navigator
1965
Operation Crossbow
as Robert Henshaw
Doctor Zhivago
as Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
King Rat
as Grey
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
1964
King and Country
as Pvt. Arthur Hamp
1963
Billy Liar
as William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
1962
Private Potter
as Pvt. Potter
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
as Colin Smith