Billy Liar. Image shows from L to R: Arthur Crabtree (Rodney Bewes), Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay)
Billy Liar
- 1963 film
Billy Fisher is a young dreamer working for a funeral director who is constantly retreating into a fantasy world. Stars Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie and more.
Another production also has this name.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1963
- Stars
- Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Gwendolyn Watts, Helen Fraser, Julie Christie and more
- Writers
- Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Producers
- Joseph Janni and Jack Rix
Billy Fisher's real world is bounded by a dull Northern town, a job as clerk in an undertaker's office, a quarrelsome relationship with his parents and a potentially explosive one with two girls to whom he has simultaneously become engaged. A compulsive liar, Billy is also ruler of his own fantasy kingdom of Ambrosia, to which he retreats when circumstances become too much for him - which is often.
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Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Wednesday 3rd February 2021 at 1:00am on TPTV
- Monday 3rd August 2020 at 11:00pm on TPTV
- Tuesday 31st March 2020 at 10:00pm on TPTV