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Cameron Diaz harbouring crush on Tom Courtenay -
7 November 2012
Cameron Diaz has developed an unlikely crush - she is besotted with ageing actor Sir Tom Courtenay.-The Hollywood star filmed new comedy caper Gambit with Brits Colin Firth and Alan Rickman, but she only had eyes for one man on set - 75-year-old Courtenay.- The blond
Tom Courtenay - what members say
review by Mocca from London
Brilliant, heart rending 21 February 2008
review by A customer from Jersey, CI
A cinematic history lesson 15 May 2007
review by MrPicky from Oswestry
grow up, move on 17 July 2008
Tom Courtenay - filmography
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Gambit - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman
Director: Michael Hoffman
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Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz star in this remake of the 1966 romantic comedy caper. Penned by the Coen brothers, the film follows London art curator Harry Deane (Firth) as he sets out to get revenge on his wealthy ex-employer Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman) for years of humiliation and contempt. ..read more »
 
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Gambit
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman
Director: Michael Hoffman
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Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz star in this remake of the 1966 romantic comedy caper. Penned by the Coen brothers, the film follows London art curator Harry Deane (Firth) as he sets out to get revenge on his wealthy ex-employer Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman) for years of humiliation and contempt. ..read more »
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from 2,163 members
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Quartet
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly
Director: Dustin Hoffman
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Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and ..read more »
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from 877 members
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Quartet - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly
Director: Dustin Hoffman
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Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and ..read more »
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from 293 members
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Little Dorrit
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Matthew McFadyen, Rosie Cavaliero, Russell Tovey
Director: Adam Smith
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Andrew Davies's adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale of hardship and struggle in 1820s London. The Dorrit family has spent years in a debtors' prison due to the financial mess in which father William (Tom Courtenay) managed to land himself as a youth. Youngest daughter Amy (Claire Foy), ..read more »
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from 2,186 members
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Flood - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Joanne Whalley, David Suchet, Jessalyn Gilsig
Director: Tony Mitchell
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Where's Gene Kelly when you need him? Robert Carlyle stars in this doomsday tale, where the meeting of a powerful storm and dangerously high seas results in a tidal surge of biblical proportions sweeping down the east coast of England en route for London. With the Thames Barrier breached and panic ..read more »
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from 587 members
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Flood
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay
Director: Tony Mitchell
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When a raging storm coincides with high seas the unthinkable happens; A colossal tidal surge slams into the Thames barrier, threatening the lives of millions of Londoners. It falls to three top marine engineers and barrier experts to find a way to save the city from total devastation.
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from 23,726 members
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Last Orders
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Helen Mirren, Michael Caine
Director: Fred Schepisi
Certificate: 
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When one of a group of lifelong friends dies, his buddies are left to carry out his last wishes: to take his ashes and dispose of them off the pier in the seaside town of Margate. As their sentimental journey begins and their own emotional mysteries unfold, they try to come to terms with Jack's ..read more »
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from 4,016 members
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A Rather English Marriage
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay
Director: Paul Seed
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Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay star in this BBC adaptation of Angela Lambert's novel. Widowed on the same day, retired milkman Roy Southgate (Courtenay) and RAF pilot Reggie Coyngham-Jervis meet at the hospital where their wives were being looked after. When Reggie's social worker, concerned that ..read more »
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from 438 members
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The Old Curiosity Shop
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Sally Walsh, Tom Courtenay
Director: Kevin Connor
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1995 TV adaptation of the classic Dickens novel. Little Nell (Sally Walsh) lives in Victorian England in the shop owned by her grandfather (Peter Ustinov). However, grandfather is heavily in debt to his wicked landlord, Mr Quilp (Tom Courtenay), who forecloses on all his loans when he discovers ..read more »
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from 276 members
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Let Him Have It
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Paul Reynolds, Michael Gough, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Peter Medak
Certificate:
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The true story of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston), hanged, aged 19, in the 1950s after a controversial decision holding him responsible for the murder of a police officer. Despite a history of mental illness, and with the court accepting that he did not actually pull the trigger, Bentley was ..read more »
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from 1,580 member
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The Dresser
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Gough, Zena Walker, Edward Fox
Director: Peter Yates
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Peter Yates' film adaptation of Ronald Harwood's play set during the Second World War centres on two men who have given their lives to the theatre. A once famous, Shakesperian actor (Albert Finney), who demands to only be called 'Sir', presides over an acting company who are exempt from military ..read more »
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from 1,056 member
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A Dandy In Aspic
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Per Oscarsso, Harry Andrews
Director: Anthony Mann
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Thriller directed by Anthony Mann. Laurence Harvey stars as Eberlin, a Russian spy and double-agent, homesick and pining for the Russian steppes. It is in this risky mood that Eberlin falls in love with the emaciated Caroline (Mia Farrow). Complications arise when he is directed to kill a Russian ..read more »
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from 133 members
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The Night Of The Generals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Cor, Christopher Plummer
Director: Anatole Litvak
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In Warsaw, 1942, a prostitute is brutally murdered and it is rumoured that a German General is the man responsible. A special investigator (Omar Sharif) is called in to clear up the controversy, and narrows the suspects down to three high-ranking Nazi officers: Tanz (Peter O'Toole), Kahlenberge (..read more »
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from 1,644 member
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King Rat
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Tom Courtenay
Director: Bryan Forbes
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George Segal stars as Corporal King 'Rat', wheeler-dealer prisoner of war in a Japanese camp, making money off his fellows and doing deals with the guards. Provost Marshal Tom Courtenay vows to get even with King for his dastardly doings.
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from 525 members
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Doctor Zhivago - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Watch now: Unavailable
Following 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962), director David Lean continued his epic phase with this adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel. During World War One, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) studies to become a doctor in Moscow. He marries his childhood sweetheart Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), but is attracted ..read more »
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from 304 members
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Watch now: Unavailable
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots intertwine ..read more »
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from 8,084 members
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King And Country
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Barry Foster, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay
Director: Joseph Losey
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Set in WWI, Dirk Bogarde plays an arrogant soldier assigned to defend Arthur Hamp (Tom Courtenay), a slow-witted private who faces the death penalty for desertion. Initially impatient to have the case over so that he can get back to the war, Bogarde comes to realise that Hamp is innocent, shell-..read more »
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from 298 members
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Billy Liar - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Ethel Griffies, Rodney Bewes, Gwendolyn Watts
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play visualizes some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a ..read more »
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from 11 members
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Billy Liar
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Ethel Griffies, Rodney Bewes, Gwendolyn Watts
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play visualizes some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a ..read more »
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Tom Courtenay facts
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..., I was outraged. The goodbye scenes before the hanging are almost unbearable. Tom Courtenay and whoever played the Mum and sister deserved Oscars. A brilliant film. ...
