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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Courtenay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Golden Compass
as Farder CoramAfter overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree...
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The Aeronauts
as Arthur GlaisherIn 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James...
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Doctor Zhivago
as Pasha Antipov / StrelnikovThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a...
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The Railway Children Return
as Uncle WalterFollow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War,...
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Eben RamseyFree-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric...
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Nicholas Nickleby
as Newman NoggsNicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and...
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Summerland
as Mr. SullivanA woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to...
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The Queen's Corgi
as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded...
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Flood
as Leonard MorrisonTimely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with...
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Gambit
as The MajorAn art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake...
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London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars...
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Night Train to Lisbon
as Older João EcaRaimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles...
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45 Years
as Geoff MercerThere is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the...
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The Night of the Generals
as Corporal HartmannA German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II....
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Quartet
as Reginald PagetCissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to...
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
as Chief Superintendent McManamanBarney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his...
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Dad's Army
as Lance Corporal JonesA cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
as Colin SmithA rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of...
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Operation Crossbow
as Robert HenshawAllied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...
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King Rat
as GreyWhen Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but...
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Billy Liar
as William Terrence 'Billy' FisherA young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an...
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Leonard Part 6
as FraynAfter separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a...
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Last Orders
as VicJack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he...
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Let Him Have It
as William BentleyIn 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by...
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A Rather English Marriage
as Roy SouthgateA squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together...
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The Dresser
as NormanIn a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the...
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King and Country
as Pvt. Arthur HampDuring World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The...
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A Dandy in Aspic
as GatissDouble-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to...
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Happy New Year
as Edward SaundersSmall time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers...
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Catch Me a Spy
as Baxter ClarkeWhile on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt...
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Harold SmithIt's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a...
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The First Film
as HimselfLeeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds...
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Joe McGillRemake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to...
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Cinderella: After Ever After
as The KingCinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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The Day the Fish Came Out
as The NavigatorA plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
as Bronislaw MalinowskiThe war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words,...
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Grandpa's Great Escape
as GrandpaMany years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from...
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The Last Butterfly
as Antoine MoreauStage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children...
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Otley
as Gerald Arthur OtleyA petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
as Daniel Quilp1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop....
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
as Mark BrianA young priest named mark is sent as a vicar to a native American village in B.C. Canada, there...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as SelfIn this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean...
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Private Potter
as Pvt. PotterA military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a...
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The New Sofa
as Dave Best Sr.Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to...
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The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
as SelfCaroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the...
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Redemption
as Stan PeacheyAfter 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister...
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Moscow in Madrid
as SelfWhen David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to...
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Me and the Girls
as GeorgeGeorge Banks recalls his past life travelling in charge of a dancing troupe.
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The Boy from Mercury
as Uncle Tony CroninSet in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
as Ivan DenisovichFly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag....
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Famous Fred
as Kenneth (voice)Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing...
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The End of an Era
as Dr Blatella (voice)Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in...
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Would I Lie to You?
as SelfA comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per...
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Unforgotten
as Eric SlaterLondon police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving...
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BBC Play of the Month
as JesusPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
as SelfHarry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams...
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Parkinson
as SelfMichael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.
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The Royle Family
as David Best Sr.British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
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Little Dorrit
as Mr. DorritAmy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who...
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The North Water
as BaxterHenry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as Bronislaw MalinowskiThe boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy...
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Mandy
as Engineer WoodcockMandy is a woman with dreams. Big dreams. Most of all she dreams of breeding Doberman Pinchers....
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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as SelfFive programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with...
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