• 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 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 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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  • 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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  • Jean Ramsden. Within These Walls (1974) Julie. Vienna 1900 (1973) Elise. Billy Liar (1973) Pauline. Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000...
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    Fellowship for lifetime achievement. Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention for her performances in Darling...
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    (1996–1997), and he made his London stage debut as Billy Fisher in the 1998 production of Billy Liar, at the King's Head Theatre in Islington. Nicholls'...
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    Doctor Zhivago (1965). Other notable film roles during this period include Billy Liar (1963), King and Country (1964), King Rat (1965), and The Night of the...
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  • Elbow Lane in Leicester, which closed in 1960. On film, Fearn appeared in Billy Liar (1963), Catch Us If You Can (1965) and Time Bandits (1981), as well as...
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  • Billy Liar on the Moon is a 1975 comedy novel by the British writer Keith Waterhouse. It is the sequel to his 1959 work Billy Liar. It continues the adventures...
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  • Schlesinger started his career making British dramas A Kind of Loving (1962), Billy Liar (1963), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). He won the Academy Award...
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    to produce records by His Mighty Robot (which remains unreleased) and Billy Liar. Slade is one of the contributors to the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars...
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    Green (1962) and Z-Cars (1963). He also appeared in the film version of Billy Liar (1963) as Arthur Crabtree, alongside his close friend Tom Courtenay. The...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    has won the Best Actor Manchester Theatre Award in 2015 for his role in Billy Liar, at the Royal Exchange Theatre. In June 2023, McEntire, Alex Jordan, Hollie...
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  • from the start." His first film role was in A Kind of Loving (1962). In Billy Liar (1963) he played the title character's boss. His first major television...
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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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  • Billy Liar is an acoustic punk/folk band from Edinburgh, fronted by the solo singer of the same name. Billy tours as a solo artist or with a band, regularly...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • "Billy Liar" is the debut single by the Decemberists. Deriving its title from the English novel Billy Liar, the song also references "Nogood Boyo" of...
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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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  • "fuck off" along with the intensifier "naffing" in Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar (1959). Usage of "naff" increased in the 1970s when the television sitcom...
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    Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). She also performed in Billy Liar the same year as The Birds. The Cost of a Kiss (1917) Hard Cash (1920)...
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  • Willis Hall's 1960 British play Billy Liar and their 1973-74 TV series of the same name. Billy stars Steve Guttenberg as Billy Fisher, a mortician's clerk...
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    group to hone his skills in his spare time, playing the title roles in Billy Liar and Amadeus. He then moved to London at the age of 19 to train at the...
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    Award for his performance. In 2004, he played the title character in Billy Liar at the Theatre Royal in Windsor. He appeared in Juliet McKoen's 2005 ghost...
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  • (2014) as Nancy Evans Theatre Go Back for Murder (Duchess Theatre]] (1960) Billy Liar, West Yorkshire Playhouse (2010) The Golden Dragon, Jagriti Theatre (2012)...
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