Tom Courtenay

Actor

Born: February 25, 1937 (age 89)
From: Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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…

Filmography (58)

Queen at Sea (2026)
Martin
Alec Guinness: A Class Act (2024)
self
The Railway Children Return (2022)
Uncle Walter
Summerland (2020)
Mr. Sullivan
Cinderella: After Ever After (2019)
The King
The Aeronauts (2019)
Arthur Glaisher
The Queen's Corgi (2019)
The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
King of Thieves (2018)
Kenny Collins
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Eben Ramsey
Grandpa's Great Escape (2018)
Grandpa
Dad's Army (2016)
Lance Corporal Jones
The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)
Chief Superintendent McManaman
The First Film (2015)
Himself
45 Years (2015)
Geoff Mercer
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Older João Eca
Quartet (2012)
Reginald Paget
Gambit (2012)
The Major
The End of an Era (2011)
Dr Blatella (voice)
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa (2010)
Self
The Royle Family: The New Sofa (2008)
Dave Best Sr.
The Golden Compass (2007)
Farder Coram
Flood (2007)
Leonard Morrison
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill (2004)
Joe McGill
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Newman Noggs
Last Orders (2001)
Vic
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
Self (archive footage)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (2000)
Harold Smith
A Rather English Marriage (1998)
Roy Southgate
Famous Fred (1996)
Kenneth (voice)
The Boy from Mercury (1996)
Uncle Tony Cronin