1937 - Today
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor of stage and screen. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Courtenay achieved prominence in the 1960s with a series of acclaimed film roles, including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, and Doctor Zhivago (1965), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Courtenay has received more than 2,128,104 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Tom Courtenay is the 1,453rd most popular actor (up from 1,508th in 2019), the 1,591st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,687th in 2019) and the 207th most popular British Actor.
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Among actors, Tom Courtenay ranks 1,453 out of 10,030. Before him are Téa Leoni, Judith Malina, Song Kang-ho, Ann Rutherford, Steven Bauer, and Jean Arthur. After him are Marisa Mell, John Hillerman, Rupert Grint, Mahershala Ali, Marg Helgenberger, and Lorne Greene.
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 1,447
1926 - 2015
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 1,448
1967 - Present
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 1,449
1917 - 2012
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 1,450
1956 - Present
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 1,451
1900 - 1991
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 1,452
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 1,453
1939 - 1992
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 1,454
1932 - 2017
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 1,455
1988 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 1,456
1974 - Present
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 1,457
1958 - Present
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 1,458
1915 - 1987
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 1,459
Among people born in 1937, Tom Courtenay ranks 128. Before him are Suzanne Pleshette, Eduard Uspensky, Monica Zetterlund, Tung Chee-hwa, Ange-Félix Patassé, and Nur Hassan Hussein. After him are Bella Akhmadulina, Mitsuo Kamata, Ted Nelson, Dick Dale, Valentin Bondarenko, and Ratan Tata.
1937 - 2008
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 122
1937 - 2018
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 123
1937 - 2005
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 124
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 125
1937 - 2011
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 126
1937 - 2020
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 127
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 128
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 129
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 130
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 131
1937 - 2019
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 132
1937 - 1961
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 133
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 134
Among people born in United Kingdom, Tom Courtenay ranks 1,591 out of 6,924. Before him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Colin Davis (1927), William Foulke (1874), Edward Colston (1636), William Hamilton (1730), and Beorhtric of Wessex (800). After him are Rupert Grint (1988), Michael Owen (1979), John Fletcher (1579), Jeff Lynne (1947), John Muir (1838), and Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770).
1834 - 1913
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 1,585
1927 - 2013
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 1,586
1874 - 1916
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 1,587
1636 - 1721
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 1,588
1730 - 1803
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 1,589
800 - 802
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 1,590
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 1,591
1988 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 1,592
1979 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 1,593
1579 - 1625
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 1,594
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 1,595
1838 - 1914
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 1,596
1770 - 1840
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 1,597
Among actors born in United Kingdom, Tom Courtenay ranks 207. Before him are Rosamund Pike (1979), Michael Sheen (1969), James McAvoy (1979), Elizabeth Hurley (1965), Sam Worthington (1976), and Eileen Atkins (1934). After him are Rupert Grint (1988), Wendy Hiller (1912), Eileen Essell (1922), Eunice Gayson (1928), James Finlayson (1887), and Timothy Spall (1957).
1979 - Present
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 201
1969 - Present
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 202
1979 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 203
1965 - Present
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 204
1976 - Present
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 205
1934 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 206
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 207
1988 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 208
1912 - 2003
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 209
1922 - 2015
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 210
1928 - 2018
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 211
1887 - 1953
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 212
1957 - Present
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 213