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Monday 13th February

Billy Liar Author Waterhouse Dies

Posted at 3:24PM Saturday 05 Sep 2009

Waterhouse made his screenwriting debut on the 1961 film Whistle Down The Wind.

But he remains best known for the 1959 novel Billy Liar - which was made into a critically acclaimed film starring Tom Courtenay in 1963.

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