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Tom Courtenay. Actor: 45 Years. Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s.
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay ( / ˈkɔːrtni /; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he achieved prominence in the 1960s as part of actors of the British New Wave.
Tom Courtenay. Actor: 45 Years. Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s.
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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 played Norman, the backstage assistant to the mononymous Sir (Finney), a tyrannical manager and lead actor of a Shakespearean touring company who discovers his life parallels King Lear's while he defies the Nazi bombardment of London during World War II.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. The Dresser. Tied with Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies (1983). Tom Courtenay was not present at the award's ceremony.
Sir Tom Courtenay has a supporting role in The Railway Children Return, a British family movie opening in select theaters Friday (September 23). We're taking the opportunity to make him our British Icon of the Week with this celebration of 10 things we appreciate and find interesting about him.
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay 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), King Rat (1965), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Courtenay, Tom (1937-) Actor With his gaunt face and slight frame, this Hull-born, RADA -trained actor represented for a generation of filmgoers resistance to the status quo.
