Tom Courtenay - biography

“The film business is absurd.  Stars don’t last very long.  It’s much more interesting to be a proper actor.”

“There just doesn’t seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.”

“I don’t want to peak too early.  The worry is that you never know until it’s all over whether you peaked at all - and then you’re finished and it’s too late.”

“I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.”

Tom Courtenay has appeared in the following films:
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Billy Liar (1963)
King and Country (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
King Rat (1965)
Operation Crossbow (1965)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Otley (1968)
To Catch a Spy (1971)
The Dresser (1983)
Happy New Year (1987)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Let Him Have It (1991)
Poslední motyl (1991)
Last Orders (2001)
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Flood (2007)