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The Late Film: Billy Liar

on BBC One London

starring
Tom Courtenay with Julie Christie
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 be* come engaged. A compulsive liar, Billy is also ruler of his own fantasy kingdom of Ambrosia, to which he retreats when circum. stances become too much for him - which is often.
Adapted by KEITH WATERHOUSE from his novel
Director JOHN SCHLESINGER . Films: page a

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Courtenay
Unknown:
Julie Christie
Unknown:
Billy Fisher
Adapted By:
Keith Waterhouse
Director:
John Schlesinger
Billy Fisher:
Tom Courtenay
Liz:
Julie Christie
Geoffrey Fisher:
Wilfred Pickles
Alice Fisher:
Mona Washbourne
Florence (grandmother):
Ethel Griffies
Duxbury:
Finlay Currie
Arthur Crabtree:
Rodney Bewes
Barbara:
Helen Fraser
Eric Stamp:
George Innes
Shadrack:
Leonard Rossiter
Rita:
Gwendolyn Watts
Det-Insp MacDonald:
Patrick Barr
Disc jockey:
Godfrey Winn
Prison governor:
Ernest Clark

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