Tom CourtenayFilmography

The Golden Compass

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green

Synopsis: A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale Read More

Flood

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay, Joanne Whalley, David Suchet

Synopsis: The citizens of London must grapple with one of the greatest environmental crises in British history, and the possible obliteration of the city itself, in Flood, a natural disaster opus from director Tony Mitchell (Supervolcano). In present day England, a colossal storm hits the North Atlantic Read More

Nicholas Nickleby

Actors: Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Alan Cumming, Edward Fox, Anne Hathaway, Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: One of Charles Dickens' best-loved (and most complex) stories receives its fourth feature film adaptation in this lively historical comedy-drama. Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam) is a 19-year-old who becomes the head of the family when his father dies unexpectedly. Keeping watch over his mother (Stella Gonet Read More

Last Orders

Actors: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Ray Winstone, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker known for such classics as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Six Degrees of Separation, Fred Schepisi tells this story about a group of lifelong chums coming to terms with their friend's death, based on a prize-winning novel by Graham Swift. When Jack Dodd (Michael Caine) Read More

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Stephen Fry, Michael Legge, Laura Fraser, Lulu

Synopsis: Set during the swinging disco era in decidedly unswinging Sheffield, England, this oddball comedy is both a coming-of-age story about getting funky and a supernatural mystery. Vince (Michael Legge) is a Travolta-obsessed teenager who lives with his aspiring magician brother; his randy mom, who has Read More

A Rather English Marriage

Actors: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Joanna Lumley, John Light, Katie Carr

Synopsis: A sort of mannered, British version of The Odd Couple (1970), this drama won four of the seven major BAFTA Awards for which it was nominated. Albert Finney stars as Reggie Cunningham-Jarvis, a former Royal Air Force squadron leader who is utterly debilitated by the death of his wife, allowing his Read More

The Boy from Mercury

Synopsis: This sprightly, nostalgic and ultimately sentimental Irish drama is suitable for family viewing. It centers on an 8-year-old boy who devises an imaginative way to cope with his grief and loneliness after his father dies. Set in Dublin around 1960, the tale centers on Harry Cronin, who decides, in Read More

The Old Curiosity Shop

Synopsis: In this Disney version of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop, Nell Trent is well cared for by her kind and gentle grandfather (Peter Ustinov) at his London curiosity shop. She, in turn, looks after him, cooking meals and keeping him company with her angelic smile and loving nature, vowing Read More

Let Him Have It

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman, Tom Bell

Synopsis: The Derek Bentley Case has been an uneasy blight on the British legal system since the early 1950s. Two young, frightened boys were caught by police trying to break into to a building. One of the boys had a gun. When the policeman reached out to the youth to turn over the gun, his friend shouted Read More

The Last Butterfly

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Ingrid Held, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska

Synopsis: Karel Kachyna and Ota Hofman adapted Michael Jacot's novel for this drama of a mime artist in Nazi-occupied Paris who is forced to put on a show for Red Cross observers in the Nazis' model "city of the Jews," Terezin, Czechoslovakia. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Leonard, Part 6

Actors: Bill Cosby, Tom Courtenay, Joe Don Baker, Moses Gunn, Gloria Foster, Pat Colbert

Synopsis: CIA director Snyderburn (Joe Don Baker) talks former agent Leonard (Bill Cosby) into returning to the job in this failed Bond-style spy comedy. Leonard's mission is to stop the evil Medusa (Gloria Foster) from taking over the planet by controlling the behavior of the world's animals. The highlight Read More

Happy New Year

Actors: Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: Happy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick and Charlie, a pair of seedy but suave jewel thieves. Preparing to rob the exclusive Florida jewelry store managed by Tom Courtenay, Nick and Charlie meticulously pre-plan Read More

The Dresser

Actors: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins

Synopsis: The complicated relationship of two men who have given their lives to the theater forms the basis for this acclaimed drama. During World War II, an aging but once famous Shakespearean actor, addressed by his cast and crew only as "Sir" (Albert Finney), continues to tour the British theater circuit Read More

The Private World of Lewis Carroll

Synopsis: Actors Mia Farrow and Tom Courtenay narrate this sympathetic 1979 profile of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Victorian-era mathematician who published his psychologically complex children's tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Read More

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley, Marianne Jones, George Clutesi

Synopsis:
Made for television, I Heard the Owl Call My Name is set in an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. Tom Courtenay plays a naive young Anglican priest who is caught unawares by the primitiveness and poverty of his new parishioners. Bishop Dean Jagger, who's seen it all (and looks it!) Read More

Catch Me a Spy

Actors: Philip Da Costa, Clive Gazes, Fiona Moore, Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Tom Courtenay, Patrick Mower

Synopsis: Dick Clement directed this late-in-the-game spy thriller, starring Kirk Douglas. Douglas plays Andrej, a drone that smuggles books out of communist countries. Unfortunately for Andrej, he is mistaken for a spy and gets into a series of convoluted situations. Fabienne (Marlene Jobert), who lives Read More

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Actors: Torstein Rustdal, Jo Skjonberg, Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, James Maxwell, Alfred Burke, Eric Thompson

Synopsis: Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about brutal individual survival in a Russian labor camp in the 1950s is brought to the screen in this stark and spare adaptation by director Caspar Wrede, writer Ronald Harwood, and cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Tom Courtenay is Ivan, who is a prisoner in the eighth Read More

Otley

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence pedlar and document smuggler. He trails double agents and double martinis at a posh cocktail party before discovering the villains have the cooperation of top government Read More

A Dandy in Aspic

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews, Peter Cook

Synopsis: Director Anthony Mann's final film (Mann died during the filming, and the production was completed by the film's star, Laurence Harvey) is a kitchen-sink espionage drama with Harvey as Eberlin, a Russian spy and double-agent, homesick and pining for the Russian steppes. It is in this risky mood Read More

The Day the Fish Came Out

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely, Candice Bergen, Ian Ogilvy

Synopsis: Life on a remote Greek resort island is forever changed when two atomic bombs are accidentally dropped there when a NATO plane flies overhead. This comedy chronicles those changes. When the pilots realize they've lost their load, they bail out of their plane and head for the island to get help. Read More

The Night of the Generals

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray

Synopsis: Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery set during World War II. Grau's only clue is that the murderer was wearing the uniform of a Nazi general. The three suspects include Gabler (Charles Gray), who fears his Read More

King Rat

Actors: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Todd Armstrong

Synopsis: James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for Read More

Doctor Zhivago

Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots Read More

Operation Crossbow

Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the Read More

King and Country

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, James Villiers

Synopsis: King and Country was adapted by Evan Jones from John Wilson's play Hamp. Misfit World War I British soldier Tom Courtenay, on trial for desertion, is defended by martinet officer Dirk Bogarde. Disgusted by the assignment, Bogarde wearily asks the dullwitted Courtenay the reasons for his actions. Read More

Billy Liar

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Finlay Currie, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play "visualizes" some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a Read More

Private Potter

Actors: Tom Courtenay, James Maxwell, Mogens Wieth, Ralph Michael, Brewster Mason, Ronald Fraser

Synopsis: This conventional military drama is meant to showcase the conflict between an individual's right to religious belief (and experiences) and the army's right to punish what it sees as a violation of direct orders, especially when the violation leads to a fatality. Private Potter (Tom Courtenay in Read More

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam, Avis Bunnage, James Cairncross, Alec McCowen, Peter Madden

Synopsis: One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and early 60's, this story centers on Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay), a bitter young man from a working-class family. Uninterested in school and determined not to follow his father Read More