Billy Liar

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.

Genre : ComedyRomanceDrama

Runtime : 98 mins

Release Date : 1963-08-15

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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 funeral home and ...

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 increase as he stru...

Cast

Tom Courtenay

Tom Courtenay

(William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher)

Julie Christie

Julie Christie

(Liz)

Wilfred Pickles

Wilfred Pickles

(Geoffrey Fisher)

Mona Washbourne

Mona Washbourne

(Alice Fisher)

Ethel Griffies

Ethel Griffies

(Grandma Florence)

Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie

(Duxbury)

Gwendolyn Watts

Gwendolyn Watts

(Rita)

Helen Fraser

Helen Fraser

(Barbara)

Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter

(Emanuel Shadrack)

Rodney Bewes

Rodney Bewes

(Arthur Crabtree)

George Innes

George Innes

(Stamp)

Leslie Randall

Leslie Randall

(Danny Boon)

Patrick Barr

Patrick Barr

(Inspector MacDonald)

Ernest Clark

Ernest Clark

(Prison Governor)

Godfrey Winn

(Disc Jockey)

Jack Cunningham

Jack Cunningham

(Ticket Examiner (uncredited))

Harry Landis

Harry Landis

(Man on Train (uncredited))

E. V. H. Emmett

E. V. H. Emmett

(Newsreel Commentator (uncredited))

Anna Wing

Anna Wing

(Mrs. Crabtree (uncredited))

Sheila Fearn

Sheila Fearn

(Telephonist (uncredited))

Muriel Day

(Singer - Dance Hall (uncredited))

Lester Leigh

(Band Leader - Dance Hall (uncredited))

Reginald Green

(Mr. Matthieson (uncredited))

Margaret Lacey

Margaret Lacey

(Mrs. Matthieson (uncredited))

Robin Parkinson

Robin Parkinson

(Jeweller's Assistant (uncredited))

David Scase

(Man in the Record Shop (uncredited))

Jessie Robins

Jessie Robins

(Large Woman in Hospital (uncredited))

Graham Rigby

Graham Rigby

(Supermarket Manager (uncredited))

Jim Brady

Jim Brady

(Prisoner Escort (uncredited))

Neville Smith

Neville Smith

(Youth (uncredited))

Leslie Lawton

(Youth (uncredited))

John Tordoff

John Tordoff

(Youth in Wimpy Bar (uncredited))

Flo Fallows

(Prostitute (uncredited))

Alice Woods

(Prostitute (uncredited))

John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger

(Officer in Dream (uncredited))

Bryan Mosley

Bryan Mosley

(Bit Part (uncredited))

Aleksander Browne

(Bit Part (uncredited))

James Byron

(Serviceman (uncredited))

Douglas Clarke

(Serviceman (uncredited))

Alan Clayton

(Serviceman (uncredited))

George Ghent

(Danny's PRO (uncredited))

Topsy Jane

(Liz (uncredited))

Natalie Kent

(Bit Part (uncredited))

Ted Morris

(Funeral Driver (uncredited))

Elisabeth Murray

(Bit Part (uncredited))

Stuart Myers

(Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited))

James Payne

(Man in Station Cafe (uncredited))

George Spence

(Man in Crowd (uncredited))

Elaine Stevens

(Danny's Secretary (uncredited))

William Wymar

(Army Man (uncredited))

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