Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 2000, Courtenay's memoir Dear Tom: Letters From Home was published to critical acclaim. It comprises a selection of the letters exchanged between Courtenay and his mother, interspersed with his own recollections of life as a young student actor in London in the early 1960s. Courtenay is the President of Hull City AFC's
45 Years is a 2015 British romantic drama film written and directed by Andrew Haigh.It is based on the short story "In Another Country" by David Constantine. [1] [4]45 Years premiered in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, [5] where Charlotte Rampling won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and Tom Courtenay for Best Actor. [6]
Billy Liar is a 1963 British CinemaScope comedy-drama film based on the 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse.Directed by John Schlesinger, it stars Tom Courtenay (who had understudied Albert Finney in the West End theatre adaptation of the novel) as Billy and Julie Christie as Liz, one of his three girlfriends.
King and Country is a 1964 British war film directed by Joseph Losey, shot in black and white, and starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay. [5] The film was adapted for the screen by British screenwriter Evan Jones based on the play Hamp by John Wilson [6] and a 1955 novel by James Lansdale Hodson.
A Dandy in Aspic is a 1968 Technicolor and Panavision British spy film, directed by Anthony Mann, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Derek Marlowe and starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and Mia Farrow, with costumes by Pierre Cardin. [1]
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Courtenay: Won [30] Royal Television Society Programme Awards: Best Actor – Male Tom Courtenay Nominated [31] Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards: Best Actress Nicola Walker: Nominated [32] C21 International Drama Awards Best English-Language Drama Series Unforgotten: Nominated [33] Best Casting of a Drama Series ...
Upon release, the film received international critical acclaim, and several awards, though was commercially unsuccessful. It was the first time actors Rita Tushingham and Tom Courtenay had appeared on screen together since Doctor Zhivago thirty years earlier. The film was also the debut of the Irish actor James Hickey.
Thomas Courtenay, 6th/14th Earl of Devon (1432–1461) Thomas Courtenay (British politician) (1782–1841), British politician and author; Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay (1822–1875), member of the Confederate Secret Service and inventor of the coal torpedo; Tom Courtenay (born 1937), English actor; Tom Courtenay (EP), by Yo La Tengo