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Acting

Tom Courtenay

Career: Active from 1962 to 2026, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 37
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: King Rat
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 41 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Tom Courtenay Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Scare
1.6, average 2.6
Fantasy
0.9, average 1.7
Adrenaline
4.0, average 4.8
Violence
3.3, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Social Commentary 4
Coming-of-Age 4
Character Study 3
Heartwarming 3
Literary Adaptation 3
Political Intrigue 3
Nostalgic 3
Emotional Journey 2
Moral Ambiguity 2
Class Conflict 2
Eccentric Characters 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

61

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

5 titles · average score 73

Queen at Sea

84

as Martin

The Railway Children Return

50

as Uncle Walter

The North Water

82

TV show · as Baxter

Summerland

70

as Mr. Sullivan

Mandy

78

TV show · as Engineer Woodcock

2010s

14 titles · average score 57

The Aeronauts

65

as Arthur Glaisher

The Queen's Corgi

23

as The Duke of Edinburgh (voice)

King of Thieves

45

as Kenny Collins

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

73

as Eben Ramsey

Grandpa's Great Escape

62

as Grandpa

Dad's Army

42

as Lance Corporal Jones

45 Years

83

as Geoff Mercer

The Legend of Barney Thomson

59

as Chief Superintendent McManaman

Unforgotten

80

TV show · as Eric Slater

Night Train to Lisbon

50

as Older João Eca

Quartet

68

as Reginald Paget

Gambit

32

as The Major

2000s

8 titles · average score 63

Little Dorrit

85

TV show · as Mr. Dorrit

The Royle Family: The New Sofa

76

as Dave Best Sr.

Flood

43

as Leonard Morrison

The Golden Compass

52

as Farder Coram

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

as Joe McGill

Nicholas Nickleby

72

as Newman Noggs

Last Orders

72

as Vic

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

45

as Harold Smith

1990s

8 titles · average score 65

A Rather English Marriage

66

as Roy Southgate

The Boy from Mercury

as Uncle Tony Cronin

Famous Fred

59

as Kenneth (voice)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

61

as Bronislaw Malinowski

The Old Curiosity Shop

61

as Daniel Quilp

The Last Butterfly

64

as Antoine Moreau

Let Him Have It

79

as William Bentley

Redemption

as Stan Peachey

1980s

8 titles · average score 44

Chekhov in Yalta

as Anton Chekhov

Leonard Part 6

15

as Frayn

Happy New Year

46

as Edward Saunders

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Stanley Peachey

Me and the Girls

as George

Absent Friends

as Colin

Theatre Night

TV show · as Colin

The Dresser

71

as Norman

1970s

6 titles · average score 50

The Chester Mystery Plays

as Jesus

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

63

as Mark Brian

Catch Me a Spy

42

as Baxter Clarke

TV show · as Marlow

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

46

as Ivan Denisovich

TV show

1960s

12 titles · average score 66

Otley

51

as Gerald Arthur Otley

A Dandy in Aspic

65

as Gatiss

The Night of the Generals

56

as Corporal Hartmann

The Day the Fish Came Out

48

as The Navigator

King Rat

88

as Grey

Doctor Zhivago

77

as Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

Operation Crossbow

59

as Robert Henshaw

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Jesus / Oswald Alving

King and Country

82

as Pvt. Arthur Hamp

Billy Liar

79

as William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

75

as Colin Smith

Private Potter

56

as Pvt. Potter