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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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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Liar's Moon is a 1981 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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Justin Cooper (actor) (category American male film actors)
17, 1988) is an American former child actor. He has starred in the film Liar Liar and in the sitcom Brother's Keeper. He serves as an executive producer...
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Maura Tierney (redirect from Billy Morrissette)
for Television. Tierney has also appeared in numerous films, including Primal Fear (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Primary Colors (1998), Insomnia (2002), The...
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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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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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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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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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John Schlesinger (category British LGBTQ 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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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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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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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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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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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, McEntire, Alex Jordan, Hollie...
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Jennifer Tilly (category American film actresses)
sitcom Family Guy. Tilly's other film credits include The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Made in America (1993), Liar Liar (1997), Music from Another Room...
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Jeff Rawle (category British male film actors)
British actor from Birmingham, England. He is known for playing Billy in Billy Liar (1973–1974), and for portraying George Dent in the news-gathering...
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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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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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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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May Warden (category English film actresses)
Is Not for Firing". Her last major role was as Billy's outspoken grandmother in the TV series Billy Liar (1973). She married comedian Silvester Stuart...
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Rodney Bewes (category English male film actors)
Dock 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...
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Hadler Jarvis Mitchell as Billy Hadler Jane Harper, on whose novel the film is based, has a cameo as a funeral attendee. The film rights for the novel were...
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Hal Lieberman (category American film producers)
were Apollo 13, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Fried Green Tomatoes, The River Wild, Death Becomes Her, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Reality Bites...
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Chad Lowe (category American male film actors)
Pretty Little Liars. In April 2010, Lowe replaced Alexis Denisof as Aria's father, Byron Montgomery, in Pretty Little Liars. While filming Quiet Days in...
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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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Is a City (1960) A Taste of Honey (1961) (*) A Kind of Loving (1962) Billy Liar (1963) The Family Way (1966) (Bolton) The White Bus (1967) Charlie Bubbles...
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