Tom Courtenay

  • Portraits (5)

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) (24)

  • Billy Liar (1963) (34)

  • King & Country (1964) (2)

  • Doctor Zhivago (1965) (4)

  • Last Orders (2001) (1)

  • Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill (2004) (2)

Highlighted works

John Schlesinger’s film features a bravura central performance from Tom Courtenay as an undertaker’s assistant escaping dreary reality through daydreams.

In this key film of the 1960s British New Wave, class tensions surface as borstal boy Tom Courtenay competes in a cross-country race against public-school rivals.

Boris Pasternak’s story of love in the Russian Revolution confirmed David Lean’s standing as the master of the sweeping historical epic.

Filmography

1956
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1970
1971
1972
1973
1976
1977
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
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1991
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2001
2002
2004
2006
  • Flood Professor Leonard Morrison
2007
2008
2012
  • Gambit Major Nigel Nelson-Wingate
2013