Billy Liar (1963)
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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 funeral parlor by conjuring up impossible adventures, usually involving the conquest of women. In one of her first film roles, Julie Christie plays one of two "real" girls who wish that Billy would come down to earth and pop the question. Following this film adaptation, Billy Liar was transformed into a stage musical, and later resurfaced as a British TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Schlesinger
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Billy Liar
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 funeral parlor by conjuring up impossible adventures, usually involving the conquest of women. In one of her first film roles, Julie Christie plays one of two "real" girls who wish that Billy would come down to earth and pop the question. Following this film adaptation, Billy Liar was transformed into a stage musical, and later resurfaced as a British TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 98 mins
Complete Cast of Billy Liar
- Tom Courtenay - Billy Fisher
- Wilfred Pickles - Geoffrey Fisher
- Finlay Currie - Duxbury
- Rodney Bewes - Arthur Crabtree
- George Innes - Eric Stamp
- Godfrey Winn - Himself
- Leslie Randall - Danny Boone
- Patrick Barr - Insp. Macdonald
- Anna Wing - Mrs. Crabtree
- Julie Christie - Liz
- Mona Washbourne - Alice Fisher
- Ethel Griffies - Florence
- Helen Fraser - Barbara
- Leonard Rossiter - Shadrack
- Ernest Clark - Prison Governor
- Gwendolyn Watts - Rita
- George Ghent
- Director(s):
- John Schlesinger
- Writer(s):
- Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
- Producer(s):
- Joseph Janni
- Categories:
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy
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