Tom Courtenay

  Sir Thomas Daniel "Tom" Courtenay (born 25 February 1937) is 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.
 

Sir Thomas Daniel "Tom" Courtenay (born 25 February 1937) is 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.

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Filmography

45 Years (2015)

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter...

Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Heaving Dickens onto the screen can be about as fatal as heaving onto the bathroom scales after a heavy season of Christmas feasting;...