Billy Liar
- Released on
Comedy, Romance, Drama
•- Runtime
- 98 mins
(108 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Tom Courtenay
- Julie Christie
- Wilfred Pickles
- Mona Washbourne
- Ethel Griffies
- Finlay Currie
- Gwendolyn Watts
- Helen Fraser
- Leonard Rossiter
- Rodney Bewes
- George Innes
- Leslie Randall
- Patrick Barr
- Ernest Clark
- Godfrey Winn
- Jack Cunningham
- Harry Landis
- E. V. H. Emmett
- Anna Wing
- Sheila Fearn
- Muriel Day
- Lester Leigh
- Reginald Green
- Margaret Lacey
- Robin Parkinson
- David Scase
- Jessie Robins
- Graham Rigby
- Jim Brady
- Neville Smith
- Leslie Lawton
- John Tordoff
- Flo Fallows
- Alice Woods
- John Schlesinger
- Bryan Mosley
- Aleksander Browne
- James Byron
- Douglas Clarke
- Alan Clayton
- George Ghent
- Topsy Jane
- Natalie Kent
- Ted Morris
- Elisabeth Murray
- Stuart Myers
- James Payne
- George Spence
- Elaine Stevens
- William Wymar
Director
- John Schlesinger
Producers
- Joseph Janni
Screenwriter
- Keith Waterhouse
- Willis Hall
