Tom Courtenay
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Courtenay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: February 25, 1937
Place of Birth: Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
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 with the cast.
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams tasked with saving planet earth from alien invasion! Each team must find clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny enough for Harry to place in a capsule which, in the event that we're invaded by aliens, we can present to them to demonstrate earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving. Over a series of rounds, the two teams of two present Harry with fun stuff which Harry must adjudicate on and ultimately decide what's in and what's out of the Fun Capsule with the triumphant team winning bragging rights. Along the way there will be sketches, studio items and special guests. And the occasional appearance of an alien.
Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to cook Christmas dinner for the family. Jim provides the yuletide log and, much to his dismay, Dave's mum and dad are invited to join the festivities.
Mandy
Mandy is a woman with dreams. Big dreams. Most of all she dreams of breeding Doberman Pinchers. But there are hurdles to overcome before that dream can become a reality. In the series we'll see her go on a health kick, rent out her small back bedroom on Airbnb and attempt a series of short-lived jobs in the modern gig economy.
Doctor Zhivago
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 during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Summerland
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Unforgotten
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
The North Water
Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
Filmography
as self
as Uncle Walter
as Baxter
as Engineer Woodcock
as Mr. Sullivan
as The King
as Arthur Glaisher
as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
as Kenny Collins
as Eben Ramsey
as Grandpa
as Lance Corporal Jones
as Eric Slater
as Chief Superintendent McManaman
as Himself
as Geoff Mercer
as Older João Eca
as Reginald Paget
as The Major
as Dr Blatella (voice)
as Dave Best Sr.
as Mr. Dorrit
as Farder Coram
as Leonard Morrison
as Joe McGill
as Newman Noggs
as Vic
as Self (archive footage)
as Harold Smith
as Roy Southgate
as Self
as Kenneth (voice)
as Uncle Tony Cronin
as Daniel Quilp
as Bronislaw Malinowski
as William Bentley
as Stan Peachey
as Antoine Moreau
as Frayn
as Edward Saunders
as George
as Colin
as Norman
as Mark Brian
as Baxter Clarke
as Ivan Denisovich
as Gerald Arthur Otley
as Gatiss
as The Navigator
as Corporal Hartmann
as Self
as Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
as Grey
as Jesus
as Oswald Alving
as Robert Henshaw
as Pvt. Arthur Hamp
as William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
as Colin Smith
as Pvt. Potter