Overview:
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.| Status: | Released (1963-08-15) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 6 BAFTA 1 win & 7 nominations total |
| Screen: | Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall |
| Productions: | Vic Films Productions, Waterfall Productions |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 14011: Tom Courtenay - William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
- 1666: Julie Christie - Liz
- 95630: Wilfred Pickles - Geoffrey Fisher
- 89895: Mona Washbourne - Alice Fisher
- 8232: Ethel Griffies - Grandma Florence
- 10027: Finlay Currie - Duxbury
- 95632: Gwendolyn Watts - Rita
Crews
- 111334: Willis Hall - Screenplay - Writing
- 19304: John Schlesinger - Director - Directing
- 111335: Keith Waterhouse - Screenplay - Writing
- 111335: Keith Waterhouse - Novel - Writing
- 10724: Richard Rodney Bennett - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 2202100: Mike Rutter - Focus Puller - Camera
- 2212841: Tom Buchanan - Boom Operator - Sound
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<i>Billy Liar</i> is a 1963 British film that captures the monumental changes of the era: the sexual revolution and the destruction of England's old town centres in modernisation schemes. In Bradford, Yorkshire young Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is working a soul-crushing job in a fu ....
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Tom Courtenay is "Billy", a lad whose grasp on reality is, well, tenuous. In his dreams, he is a brave and valiant life-saving sort of fellow. In real life he is a lowly clerk who works for a funeral director and lives with his increasingly exasperated parents. His problems only incr ....
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