Re-imagined midcentury-style poster of “Billy Liar”

A mid-century inspired poster design by Art & Hue, featuring Billy himself along with the three women in his life, Barbara, Liz & Rita, plus Mona Washbourne & Wilfred Pickles as Billy’s parents Geoffrey & Alice Fisher.

Mona Washbourne

A mainstay of British film, just some of Mona’s film credits include “THe Winslow Boy” with Basil Radford & Stanley Holloway; “The Huggets Abroad” with Jack Warner & Dinah Sheridan; “Doctor in the House” with Dirk Bogarde & Donald Houston; “John & Julie” with Moira Lister, Sid James, Peter Sellers, Molly Weir, Katie Johnson & Joseph Tomelty; “Yield to the Night” with Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell & Liam Redmond; “The Good Companions” with Hugh Griffith, Janette Scott, John Fraser, Joyce Grenfell & Carole Lesley; “A Cry from the Street” with Barbara Murray; “No Love for Johnnie” with Peter Finch, Mervyn Johns, Dennis Price, Fenella Fielding & Gladys Henson; “Night Must Fall” with Susan Hampshire; “My Fair Lady” with Audrey Hepburn & Gwendolyn Watts; “One Way Pendulum” with George Cole, Glyn Houston, Graham Crowden & Trevor Bannister; “The Collector” with Terence Stamp; “Two a Penny” with Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan & Earl Cameron; “If….” with Richard Warwick; “The Bed Sitting Room” with Frank Thornton & Harry Secombe; “Fragment of Fear” with David Hemmings, Yootha Joyce & Kenneth Cranham; “O Lucky Man!” with Rachel Roberts; “Identikit” with Elizabeth Taylor & Ian Bannen; and “Stevie” with Trevor Howard.

Wilfred Pickles

Wilfred Pickles OBE started in the variety tradition with performances in music halls such as Blackpool’s Palace Theatre.

Snapped up by radio, the comedy show “Have a Go”, co-presented with his wife Mabel, was hugely popular, with millions of listeners each week, and long-running, from 1946 & 1967.

Pickles went on to star with Irene Handl in the long-running sitcom “For the Love of Ada” which got the big-screen treatment in 1972. Pickles also appeared in the films “Serious Charge” with Cliff Richard & Wilfrid Brambell, and “The Family Way” with Hywel Bennett, Windsor Davies & Liz Fraser.

Television credits include “Public Eye” with Alfred Burke; “City 68” with Doris Hare; “A Man of Our Times” with George Cole; “Dixon of Dock Green” with Philip Madoc; “inheritance” with John Thaw; and “Yorky” with Margaret Lockwood, to name a few, as well as appearances as himself on many variety & entertainment shows including “The Golden Shot” with Bob Monkhouse, “The Good Old Days”, and “Cilla” with The Shadows.