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Featuring an extraordinary acting performance by Tom Courtenay, "Billy Liar" starts off as a farce. Courtney's Billy lives in a fantasy world, or a fantasy country, where he is the dictator, passing back and forth between a Churchill-like autocrat who inspires his people with magnificent Churchill-type speeches to a Hitler-esque fascist.
20 dic 2023 · 1963, 9Honey Movies. Billy Liar. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family. Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles. Contains: Sexual References, Adult Themes. Addeddate.
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 received a knighthood in February 2001 for forty years' service to cinema and theatre. Courtenay is the President of ...
Billy Fisher : [to Liz] I have a sort of... well, it's an imaginary country where I go. I'm supposed to be the prime minister and you're the foreign secretary. It will be a big room, and when we go in it through the door, that's it. That's our country. Nobody else will be allowed in at all.
6 mag 2013 · Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher (‘Billy Liar’) in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s. Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions.
1 set 2010 · Billy Liar, a story of smalltown frustration, captivated a generation, pre-empted the 60s – and even inspired Oasis. As the stage play returns, Laura Barton asks Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie ...
Billy Liar (1963) ← Back to main. Cast 50. Tom Courtenay. William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher Julie Christie. Liz Wilfred Pickles. Geoffrey Fisher ...
