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British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Supporting Actor
Won
Nominated
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Silver Bear
Won
Emmy (Primetime)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated
Academy Award
Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated
Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Won
Courtenay was born on 25 February 1937 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Annie Eliza ( née Quest) and Thomas Henry Courtenay, a boat painter in Hull fish docks. He attended Kingston High School and went on to study English at University College London, where he failed his degree. [2]
Unforgotten. 1999 Winner BAFTA TV Award. Best Actor. A Rather English Marriage. 1985 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best Actor. The Dresser. 1965 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best British Actor.
- February 25, 1937
Tom Courtenay. Actor: 45 Years. Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s.
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Check all the awards won and nominated for by Tom Courtenay - British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actor (1999) , Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama (1984) , BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (1963) and more awards.
Tom Courtenay. Actor: 45 Years. Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s. An undying love for the theatre, however, had Courtenay channeling a different course from the aforementioned greats and he never, by ...
- February 25, 1937
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie - 2009. Nominee. Tom Courtenay, as Mr. Dorrit. Little Dorrit (Masterpiece) PBS. A co-production of BBC Productions and WGBH Boston. The Television Academy database lists prime-time Emmy information.
Jul 17, 2014 · Maybe it was that Finney was busy filming Tom Jones for Courtenay’s Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner director, Tony Richardson. In any event, Courtenay is once again terrific as the provincial North England clerk living in a fantasy world. The role earned him another BAFTA nomination, this time for Best British Actor.
