Tom Courtenay

Highest Rated:
100% Billy Liar (1963)
Lowest Rated:
9% Leonard Pt. 6 (1987)
Birthday:
Feb 25, 1937
Birthplace:
Hull, Humberside, England, UK
Bio:
Best known for his many distinguished years in British theater, Tom Courtenay is also a noted film star who, while never achieving the fame of his contemporaries Albert Finney and Alan Bates, has earned great respect for his memorable performances. A ship painter's son born in Hull, Yorkshire,…

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 9% - 100%
Number of Movies: 32
Box Office Since 2001: $91.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Night Train To Lisbon
  • Actor
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2013 79% Quartet
  • Reggie Paget
$18.1M
2012 19% Gambit
  • Actor
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2008 Little Dorrit
  • William Dorrit
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2007 42% The Golden Compass
  • Farder Coram
$70.1M
2007 Flood
  • Actor
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2002 77% Nicholas Nickleby
  • Newman Noggs
$1.3M
2001 79% Last Orders
  • Vic
$2.2M
1999 40% Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
  • Harold Smith
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1998 A Rather English Marriage
  • Roy Southgate
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1996 Boy from Mercury
  • Uncle Tony
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1994 The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Quilp
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1991 92% Let Him Have It
  • William Bentley
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1991 The Last Butterfly
  • Antoine Moreau
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1987 Happy New Year
  • Edward Sanders Jewelry Store manager
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1987 9% Leonard Pt. 6
  • Actor
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1987 Leonard Part 6
  • Frayn Leonard's Butler
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1983 100% The Dresser
  • Norman
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1973 I Heard the Owl Call My Name
  • Father Tark Brian
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1971 Catch Me a Spy
  • Baxter Clarke
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1971 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Ivan Denisovich
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1968 A Dandy in Aspic
  • Gatiss
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1968 Otley
  • Gerald Arthur Otley
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1967 The Day the Fish Came Out, (...Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria!)
  • Navigator
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1967 The Night of the Generals
  • Corpor Hartmann
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1965 85% Doctor Zhivago
  • Pasha Strelnikov
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1965 King Rat
  • Lieutenant Grey
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1965 60% Operation Crossbow
  • Robert Henshaw
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1964 100% King and Country
  • Private Hamp
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1963 Private Potter
  • Pvt. Potter
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1963 100% Billy Liar
  • Billy Fisher
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1962 74% The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
  • Colin Smith
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Quotes from Tom Courtenay's Characters

    1. Pasha Strelnikov: Monsieur Komarovsky; I hope I don't offend you. Do people improve with age?
    2. Komarovsky: They grow a little more tolerant.
    3. Pasha Strelnikov: Because they have more to tolerate in themselves.
    From Doctor Zhivago. Submitted by G Thomas B (27 days ago)
    1. Eberlin: Cuban cigars are in our country. How you say, dime a dozen?
    2. Gatiss: The dime is a small American coin.
    3. Eberlin: I thought the Americans didn't have any small coins?
    4. Gatiss: They don't. They've given them all to the British.
    From A Dandy in Aspic. Submitted by Glen F (19 months ago)
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