Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Tom Courtenay

Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams

Courtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them

The Guardian - UK

Dame Penelope Keith obituary

The Guardian - UK

David Burke obituary

RSC and National Theatre actor who was a lively and intelligent Watson to Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes on television

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Coronation Street actor and Bafta winner Paul Seed dies aged 78

‘I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought the world of him,” Sir Tom Courtenay wrote in a tribute

The Independent UK

Yellow Letters wins Golden Bear at Berlin film festival dominated by Gaza row

Wim Wenders says German director İlker Çatak’s Turkey-set warning against creeping authoritarianism gave jury ‘chills’

The Guardian - UK

Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy

Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning

The Guardian - UK

In The Seagull, Cate Blanchett and Thomas Ostermeier could make small details seismic

The Oscar winner stars in the German director’s production of the Chekhov classic where ‘everything is open to interpretation’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Emily Richard obituary

Actor who toured with the RSC, played Tess of the d’Urbervilles on radio and starred in Lorna Doone on television

The Guardian - UK

King and Country review – Joseph Losey’s brutal reflection on the futility of war

Tom Courtenay is unforgettable as a first world war private on trial for desertion. But it is Dirk Bogarde, dripping with distaste for his defendant who delivers a horrific coup de grâce

The Guardian - UK

Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

The Guardian - UK

Amanda Holden steals show at Britain's Got Talent in leg-flashing cut-out dress

The Manchester leg of Britain's Got Talent auditions are finally here - with glamorous judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon pulling out all the stops for the first day

Daily Mirror

David Walliams spotted with showbiz pals as BGT filming goes on without him

Former Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams looked carefree as he shared a snap of himself hanging out with his showbiz pals

Daily Mirror

Tom Courtenay: ‘I told Daniel Craig I turned down Bond because of the gym work’

The celebrated actor answers your questions about the train scene in Doctor Zhivago, the joy of working on The Royle Family, and his love of the ukulele

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Tom Courtenay

Ahead of the release of The Railway Children Return, here’s your chance to ask the legendary actor about his extraordinary career. Leave your questions in the comments – all aboard!

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.