• 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...
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  • Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and been featured...
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  • Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse. Billy Liar may also refer to: Billy Liar (film), a 1963 film directed by John Schlesinger Billy Liar (TV...
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    of which won her a Golden Globe Award. Tierney's film credits include Primal Fear (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Primary Colors (1998), Forces of Nature (1999)...
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  • Billy Liar is a sitcom of 26 30-minute episodes over two series made by London Weekend Television in 1973–1974 which starred Jeff Rawle as Billy Fisher...
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  • Topsy Jane (category English film actresses)
    as Liz (the role eventually played by Julie Christie) in the 1963 film Billy Liar but was forced to pull out owing to mental health issues. She was born...
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  • Justin Cooper (actor) (category American male film actors)
    some time on the daytime drama General Hospital, he starred in the film Liar Liar and the sitcom Brother's Keeper. He serves as an executive producer...
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  • Liar's Moon is a 1982 film directed by David Fisher and starring Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Yvonne De Carlo, and Hoyt Axton. It tells the story of two...
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  • Emily Barber (category English film actresses)
    Best Newcomer at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her debut as Liz in Billy Liar at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2015. She followed that with a nomination...
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    Channel 4. Julie Christie, British actress best known for her role in Billy Liar (film). Janet McTeer, English actress best known for her role in A Doll's...
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  • office. The film received mixed reviews from critics. It was the third collaboration between Carrey and producer Brian Grazer, after Liar Liar (1997) and...
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  • John Schlesinger (category English film directors)
    English country locations. Both films (and Billy Liar) featured Julie Christie as the female lead. Schlesinger's next film, Midnight Cowboy (1969), was internationally...
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  • Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1964, honoured the best films of 1963. Tom Jones 8½ Billy Liar David and...
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    Julie Christie (category Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners)
    Fellowship for lifetime achievement. Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention for her performances...
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  • are Billy, Henry, Jack and Albert. Billy has the most mental capacity of the group and is their de facto leader, though he is a pathological liar with...
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    Helen Fraser (actress) (category English film actresses)
    For international audiences, she may be best known for her roles in Billy Liar (1963) and Repulsion (1965). She is also well known in Britain for portraying...
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  • eponymous antihero Billy Liar, in the original West End stage production in 1960. According to Tom Courtenay, who took over the role of Billy from Albert Finney...
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  • Whitley Strieber Billy, a 2002 biography of Billy Connolly by Pamela Stephenson Billy (musical), a musical based on Billy Liar Billy, a 1969 Broadway...
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  • Trevor Bannister (category English male film actors)
    1960, Bannister appeared on stage at the Cambridge Theatre in London in Billy Liar, which starred Albert Finney. He starred as Darkie Pilbeam, a wartime...
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  • Billy is a musical based on the novel and play Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The book was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais...
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  • Posey as Billy Barrow John Posey as Coach Stu Tennent Teo Olivares as Donald Worthington Chris Whetstone as Mac Chetley WWE Studios produced the film alongside...
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  • Ty Wood (category Canadian male film actors)
    Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story and in the role of Billy Campbell in the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut. Wood is from Winnipeg, Manitoba...
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    Cary Elwes (category English male film actors)
    films include Glory (1989), Days of Thunder (1990), Hot Shots! (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Twister (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Liar Liar...
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  • Sally Watts (category English film actresses)
    in Public Eye (1972); Hunter's Walk (1973); Barbara in 21 episodes of Billy Liar (1973–1974); Farm Girl in Nuts in May for Play for Today (1976); Chrissie...
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  • produced the Michael Powell film Peeping Tom (1960) and such films as John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving (1962), Billy Liar (1963) or Ken Loach's Poor...
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    Harry McEntire (category English male film actors)
    has won the Best Actor Manchester Theatre Award in 2015 for his role in Billy Liar, at the Royal Exchange Theatre. In June 2023 Harry, alongside other UK-based...
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    Tom Courtenay (category BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles winners)
    David Lean's epic Doctor Zhivago (1965). Other notable film roles during this period include Billy Liar (1963), King and Country (1964), King Rat (1965), and...
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  • friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Celebration; the screenplays...
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    Shawn Levy (category Action film directors)
    director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and The...
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  • of the comic strip). His 1959 book Billy Liar was subsequently filmed by John Schlesinger with Tom Courtenay as Billy. It was nominated in six categories...
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