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Billy Liar is a 1963 film based on the novel by Keith Waterhouse. It was directed by John Schlesinger and stars Tom Courtenay (who had understudied Albert Finney in the West End theatre adaptation of the novel) as Billy and Julie Christie as Liz, one of his three girlfriends. Mona Washbourne plays Mrs Fisher, and Wilfred Pickles played Mr Fisher. Rodney Bewes, Finlay Currie and Leonard Rossiter also feature. The Cinemascope photography is by Denys Coop, and Richard Rodney Bennett supplied the score. John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926â€“July 25, 2003) was a British film director. ... Keith Waterhouse (born 6 February 1929 in Leeds, England) is a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series. ... Tom Courtenay (pronounced Courtney) (born February 25, 1937) is a British actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). ... Oskar Werner and Julie Christie in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Julie Frances Christie (born April 14, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning English actress for her role in the 1965 film, Darling. ... Wilfred Pickles (13 October 1904 - 26 March 1978) was an English actor and radio presenter. ... Mona Washbourne (November 27, 1903 - November 15, 1988) was a British film and stage actress. ... Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (born March 29, 1936) is a British composer. ... Denys Coop (b. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... // Events January 28 - Filming begins on Dr. Strangelove. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Keith Waterhouse (born 6 February 1929 in Leeds, England) is a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series. ... John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926â€“July 25, 2003) was a British film director. ... Tom Courtenay (pronounced Courtney) (born February 25, 1937) is a British actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire) is a five-time Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Oskar Werner and Julie Christie in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Julie Frances Christie (born April 14, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning English actress for her role in the 1965 film, Darling. ... Mona Washbourne (November 27, 1903 - November 15, 1988) was a British film and stage actress. ... Wilfred Pickles (13 October 1904 - 26 March 1978) was an English actor and radio presenter. ... Rodney Bewes (born 27 November 1938 born in Bingley, West Yorkshire) is a British TV actor probably best known for playing the lovable Bob Ferris in the classic BBC sitcoms The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Bewes was RADA trained and got his break in the... Finlay Currie was a Scottish-born British actor on stage, screen and television. ... Leonard Rossiter (born Liverpool, England, October 21st 1926 - died London, October 5th 1984) was a distinguished British actor, most widely known for his comedy roles in two British television series of the 1970s. ... Cinemascope, or more strictly CinemaScope, was a widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967. ... Denys Coop (b. ... Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (born March 29, 1936) is a British composer. ...

The film belongs to the British New Wave (or "kitchen sink") movement, inspired by the earlier French New Wave. Characteristic of the style is a documentary/cinéma vérité feel and the use of real locations (in this case the city of Bradford in Yorkshire). One sequence includes a very early use of a swear word ("pissed"), which was unusual by commercial film standards of the time; the word is uttered by Mona Washbourne. The British New Wave is the name given to a trend in filmmaking among directors in Britain in the late fifties and early sixties. ... Kitchen sink drama was a recognisable British cultural movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... FranÃ§ois Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... CinÃ©ma vÃ©ritÃ© is a style of filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques that originated in documentary filmmaking, with the storytelling elements typical of a scripted film. ... Statistics Population: 293,717 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE165325 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Bradford Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Ambulance service: Yorkshire... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In 2004 the magazine Total Film named Billy Liar the 12th greatest British film of all time. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdoms second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. ...

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Categories: 1963 films | Films based on fiction books | British films | Social realism | Films directed by John Schlesinger The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, video games and production crew personnel. ... Image File history File links Billy_Liar. ... How to Get Ahead in Advertising is 1989 British motion picture written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward. ... The Criterion Collection has released or announced the future release of the following films on DVD. List number corresponds to the spine number of the title, which is roughly correlative to the release order, although this sometimes varies due to outside factors involving a titles production. ... Salesman is a 1969 cinema verité documentary film which follows four salesmen of expensive Bibles door-to-door in a low-income neighborhood which cannot afford expensive Bibles. ...

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