- So that's your ambition? Script writing? - Yes, it always has been. Do you get a salary each week, or do you get paid by the joke? Ah, why, it's ve ve very difficult to say, really. You don't need me to tell you it's very unprofessional- a letter like this. - It is? - Nobody wants to stand in your way. Don't think that, but you might have gone about it in a more satisfactory manner.
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Description: A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Cast:
Billy Fisher: Tom Courtenay
Geoffrey Fisher: Wilfred Pickles
Alice Fisher: Mona Washbourne
Grandma Florence: Ethel Griffies
Duxbury: Finlay Currie
Rita: Gwendolyn Watts
Barbara: Helen Fraser
Liz: Topsy Jane
Emanuel Shadrack: Leonard Rossiter
Arthur Crabtree: Rodney Bewes
Stamp: George Innes
Danny Boon: Leslie Randall
Insp. MacDonald: Patrick Barr
Prison Governor: Ernest Clark
Disc Jockey: Godfrey Winn
Bit Part: Elisabeth Murray
Serviceman: Alan Clayton
Ticket Examiner: Jack Cunningham
Singer - Dance Hall: Muriel Day
Newsreel Commentator: E.V.H. Emmett
Prostitute: Alice Woods
Telephonist: Sheila Fearn
Danny's PRO: George Ghent
Mr. Matthieson: Reginald Green
Mrs. Matthieson: Margaret Lacey
Man on Train: Harry Landis
Youth: Neville Smith
Band leader: Lester Leigh
Funeral Driver: Ted Morris
Man Reading Newspaper: Stuart Myers
Prisoner Escort: Jim O'Brady
Jeweller's Assistant: Robin Parkinson
Man in Station Cafe: James Payne
Supermarket Manager: Graham Rigby
Large Woman in Hospital: Jessie Robins
Man in the Record Shop: David Scase
Officer in Dream: John Schlesinger
Man in Crowd: George Spence
Danny's Secretary: Elaine Stevens
Youth in Wimpy Bar: John Tordoff
Mrs. Crabtree: Anna Wing
Army Man: William Wymar
Written by: Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Director: John Schlesinger
Production: Vic Films Productions, Waterfall Productions
Release date: 16 Dec 1963
Cast:
Billy Fisher: Tom Courtenay
Geoffrey Fisher: Wilfred Pickles
Alice Fisher: Mona Washbourne
Grandma Florence: Ethel Griffies
Duxbury: Finlay Currie
Rita: Gwendolyn Watts
Barbara: Helen Fraser
Liz: Topsy Jane
Emanuel Shadrack: Leonard Rossiter
Arthur Crabtree: Rodney Bewes
Stamp: George Innes
Danny Boon: Leslie Randall
Insp. MacDonald: Patrick Barr
Prison Governor: Ernest Clark
Disc Jockey: Godfrey Winn
Bit Part: Elisabeth Murray
Serviceman: Alan Clayton
Ticket Examiner: Jack Cunningham
Singer - Dance Hall: Muriel Day
Newsreel Commentator: E.V.H. Emmett
Prostitute: Alice Woods
Telephonist: Sheila Fearn
Danny's PRO: George Ghent
Mr. Matthieson: Reginald Green
Mrs. Matthieson: Margaret Lacey
Man on Train: Harry Landis
Youth: Neville Smith
Band leader: Lester Leigh
Funeral Driver: Ted Morris
Man Reading Newspaper: Stuart Myers
Prisoner Escort: Jim O'Brady
Jeweller's Assistant: Robin Parkinson
Man in Station Cafe: James Payne
Supermarket Manager: Graham Rigby
Large Woman in Hospital: Jessie Robins
Man in the Record Shop: David Scase
Officer in Dream: John Schlesinger
Man in Crowd: George Spence
Danny's Secretary: Elaine Stevens
Youth in Wimpy Bar: John Tordoff
Mrs. Crabtree: Anna Wing
Army Man: William Wymar
Written by: Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Director: John Schlesinger
Production: Vic Films Productions, Waterfall Productions
Release date: 16 Dec 1963
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