biography
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Courtenay, Tom
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popular name of Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay
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pronunciation:
[kaw(r)tnee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Hull, NE England, UK. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and made his professional debut in 1960 with the Old Vic company in Edinburgh. He played Hamlet at the 1968 Edinburgh Festival, and won acclaim for his performance as Norman in the Ayckbourn comedy trilogy, The Norman Conquests (1974). Other stage appearances include The Dresser (1980), the title role in the musical, Andy Capp (1982), Dealing with Clair (1988), Art (1996), and Pretending To Be Me (2003). His first film appearance was in The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1962). Subsequent films include Billy Liar (1963), King Rat (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (1971), and The Dresser (1983). In 1998 he appeared in BBC television's A Rather English Marriage (BAFTA). He received a knighthood in 2001. |
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