Tom Courtenay

Actor Feb 25 (age 89) Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK 1962–2026 (64 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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 Univers…

Known For

Film

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Eben Ramsey

Film

Doctor Zhivago

Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

Film

The Golden Compass

Farder Coram

Film

The Aeronauts

Arthur Glaisher

Film

45 Years

Geoff Mercer

Film

Summerland

Mr. Sullivan

Film

Night Train to Lisbon

Older João Eca

Film

Unforgotten

Eric Slater

Filmography

Acting (69)

Movies (57)

Queen at Sea

2026

as Martin

8.0

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

as self

6.0

The Railway Children Return

as Uncle Walter

Summerland

as Mr. Sullivan

The Aeronauts

as Arthur Glaisher

The Queen's Corgi

as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)

5.9

Cinderella: After Ever After

as The King

King of Thieves

as Kenny Collins

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

2018

as Eben Ramsey

7.4

Grandpa's Great Escape

2018

as Grandpa

6.1

Dad's Army

2016

as Lance Corporal Jones

45 Years

as Geoff Mercer

The First Film

as Himself

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015

as Chief Superintendent McManaman

6.1

Night Train to Lisbon

as Older João Eca

Quartet

as Reginald Paget

Gambit

as The Major

The End of an Era

as Dr Blatella (voice)

The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa

2010

as Self

8.4

The Royle Family: The New Sofa

as Dave Best Sr.

The Golden Compass

as Farder Coram

Flood

as Leonard Morrison

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

as Joe McGill

Nicholas Nickleby

as Newman Noggs

Last Orders

as Vic

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

2000

as Harold Smith

6.1

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000

as Self (archive footage)

A Rather English Marriage

as Roy Southgate

Famous Fred

as Kenneth (voice)

The Boy from Mercury

as Uncle Tony Cronin

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

1995

as Bronislaw Malinowski

5.6

The Old Curiosity Shop

1995

as Daniel Quilp

6.3

Redemption

1991

as Stan Peachey

The Last Butterfly

as Antoine Moreau

Let Him Have It

as William Bentley

Happy New Year

as Edward Saunders

Leonard Part 6

as Frayn

Absent Friends

as Colin

Me and the Girls

as George

The Dresser

as Norman

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

as Jesus

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

as Mark Brian

Catch Me a Spy

as Baxter Clarke

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1970

as Ivan Denisovich

6.4

Otley

1969

as Gerald Arthur Otley

6.2

A Dandy in Aspic

1968

as Gatiss

6.8

The Night of the Generals

1967

as Corporal Hartmann

6.8

The Day the Fish Came Out

1967

as The Navigator

4.6

Doctor Zhivago

1965

as Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

King Rat

as Grey

Moscow in Madrid

as Self

Operation Crossbow

1965

as Robert Henshaw

6.7

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

1965

as Self

King and Country

1964

as Pvt. Arthur Hamp

7.1

Billy Liar

1963

as William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher

6.8

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

as Colin Smith

Private Potter

as Pvt. Potter

Television (12)

The North Water

as Baxter

Mandy

as Engineer Woodcock

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

as Self

Unforgotten

as Eric Slater

Little Dorrit

as Mr. Dorrit

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

Inundación

Parkinson

as Self

The Royle Family

1998

as David Best Sr.

7.6

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993

as Self

Theatre Night

1985

as Colin

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Oswald Alving

5.0