Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (born 25 February 1937) is an English actor. A notable figure of the British New Wave, he has received numerous accolades, including three BAFTAs, a Golden Globe, two Silver Bears, and a Volpi Cup, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He was knighted for his services to cinema and theatre in the 2001 New Year Honours. He 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Courtenay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Queen at Sea — Martin
• 2022The Railway Children Return — Uncle Walter
• The North Water — Baxter
• Mandy — Engineer Woodcock
• 2020Summerland — Mr. Sullivan
• 2019Cinderella: After Ever After — The King
• 2019The Aeronauts — Arthur Glaisher
• 2019The Queen's Corgi — The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)
• 2018Grandpa's Great Escape — Grandpa
• 2018King of Thieves — Kenny Collins
• 2018The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society — Eben Ramsey
• 2016Dad's Army — Lance Corporal Jones
• 201545 Years — Geoff Mercer
• 2015The Legend of Barney Thomson — Chief Superintendent McManaman
• Unforgotten — Eric Slater
• 2013Night Train to Lisbon — Older João Eca
• 2012Gambit — The Major
• 2012Quartet — Reginald Paget
• 2011The End of an Era — Dr Blatella (voice)
• Little Dorrit — Mr. Dorrit
• 2008The Royle Family: The New Sofa — Dave Best Sr.
• 2007Flood — Leonard Morrison
• 2007The Golden Compass — Farder Coram
• 2004Ready When You Are, Mr McGill — Joe McGill
• 2002Nicholas Nickleby — Newman Noggs
• 2001Last Orders — Vic
• 2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? — Harold Smith
• 1998A Rather English Marriage — Roy Southgate
• 1996Famous Fred — Kenneth (voice)
• 1996The Boy from Mercury — Uncle Tony Cronin
• 1995The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye — Bronislaw Malinowski
• 1995The Old Curiosity Shop — Daniel Quilp
• 1991Let Him Have It — William Bentley
• 1991Redemption — Stan Peachey
• 1991The Last Butterfly — Antoine Moreau
• 1988Chekhov in Yalta — Anton Chekhov
• 1987Happy New Year — Edward Saunders
• 1987Leonard Part 6 — Frayn
• ScreenPlay — Stanley Peachey
• 1985Absent Friends — Colin
• 1985Me and the Girls — George
• Theatre Night — Colin
• 1983The Dresser — Norman
• 1976The Chester Mystery Plays — Jesus
• 1973I Heard the Owl Call My Name — Mark Brian
• 1971Catch Me a Spy — Baxter Clarke
• Stage 2 — Marlow
• 1970One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Ivan Denisovich
• Solo
• 1969Otley — Gerald Arthur Otley
• 1968A Dandy in Aspic — Gatiss
• 1967The Day the Fish Came Out — The Navigator
• 1967The Night of the Generals — Corporal Hartmann
• BBC Play of the Month — Jesus, Oswald Alving
• 1965Doctor Zhivago — Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
• 1965King Rat — Grey
• 1965Operation Crossbow — Robert Henshaw
• 1964King and Country — Pvt. Arthur Hamp
• 1963Billy Liar — William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
• 1962Private Potter — Pvt. Potter
• 1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner — Colin Smith

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act — self
• Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule — Self
• 2015The First Film — Himself
• 2010The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa — Self
• 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories — Self (archive footage)
• Parkinson — Self
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1965Moscow in Madrid — Self
• 1965Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean — Self