Billie Whitelaw
Birthday: 1932-06-06
Place of Birth: Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Biography: Billie Honor Whitelaw (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English stage and screen actress. She worked in close collaborration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and wass regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs Baylock, the demonic nanny in The Omen.
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Frenzy
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal sla...
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The Omen
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without ...
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Quills
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...
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The Krays
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but dot...
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The Lost Son
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best frie...
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Joyriders
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars....
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Jamaica Inn
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pira...
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The Dark Crystal
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a ...
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Maurice
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restric...
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Duel of Hearts
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is bei...
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Night Watch
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London p...
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Hell Is a City
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming ...
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Payroll
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans ...
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A Murder of Quality
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the mu...
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The Secret Garden
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, s...
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Lena, O My Lena
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the hum...
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Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutiona...
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The Sleeping Tiger
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes...
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Charlie Bubbles
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of b...
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Leo the Last
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded wi...
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The Dressmaker
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 1...
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Lorna Doone
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her fathe...
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The Fifteen Streets
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the ...
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Room in the House
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up son...
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Leopard in the Snow
A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives i...
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Eagle in a Cage
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon...
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No Love for Johnnie
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li...
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The Picnic
A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, a...
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Shadey
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a c...
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Deadly Advice
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themsel...
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Miracle in Soho
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, wit...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft,...
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The Devil's Agent
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence exp...
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she...
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Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed ar...
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Camille
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval....
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The Adding Machine
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and hi...
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Bobbikins
This adventure follows the story of a young navy man, his wife and their baby son, Bobby, also known...
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Make Mine Mink
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullne...
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The Fake
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with ...
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Breakout
A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison....
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Murder Elite
An English woman returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a se...
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Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee...
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Small Hotel
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd ...
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Not I
Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram...
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Mr. Arkadin
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detectiv...
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cord...
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Slayground
After thieves botch an armored truck robbery that leads to the death of an innocent young girl, her ...
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Poet Game
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, tryi...
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The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da...
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The Cloning of Joanna May
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
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I, Of Whom I Know Nothing
John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, wh...
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Skallagrigg
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institution...
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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...
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Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lo...
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The Comedy Man
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job...
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Morrissey - Hulmerist
Seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS in 1990 and then on DVD in 2004. It ...
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Tangiers
A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of ...
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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces ...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry...
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The Water Babies
Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on...
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The Curse of 'The Omen'
The filming of "The Omen" (1976) was plagued by tragedy and bizarre incidents. "The devil was at wor...
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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his fo...
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Rockaby
A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produce...
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Notfilm
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster...
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Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo jo...
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Ghost Trio
A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cass...
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Last Summer's Child
Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Event...
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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poem...
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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorc...
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Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's pla...
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