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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.
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Courtenay made his stage debut in 1960 with the Old Vic theatre company at the Lyceum, Edinburgh, before taking over from Albert Finney in the title role of Billy Liar at the Cambridge Theatre in 1961. In 1963, he played that same title role in the film version, directed by John Schlesinger.
Billy Liar: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- John Schlesinger
- 1963-12-16
6 ago 2020 · 93. 8.5K views 3 years ago. 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....
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Filmografia. Tom Courtenay nella sua casa a Londra nel 1973. Gioventù, amore e rabbia ( The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ), regia di Tony Richardson (1962) Billy il bugiardo ( Billy Liar ), regia di John Schlesinger (1963) Per il re e per la patria ( King and Country ), regia di Joseph Losey (1964)
The 1963 film was directed by John Schlesinger and featured Tom Courtenay, who played the part when Albert Finney left the cast in the West End play, as Billy and Julie Christie as Liz, one of his three girlfriends. Mona Washbourne played Mrs. Fisher, and Wilfred Pickles played Mr. Fisher. Rodney Bewes, Finlay Currie, and Leonard ...
Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, Billy Liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic. Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker’s assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname “Billy Liar.”
