Billie Whitelaw
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5405 |
| Birthday | 1932-06-06 |
| Place of Birth | Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Билли Уайтлоу, Billie Honor Whitelaw, |
1972
Frenzy
7.098/1009
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blan...
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Frenzy
1976
The Omen
7.41/2371
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t kno...
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The Omen
2000
Quills
7.124/715
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the...
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Quills
1990
The Krays
6.076/118
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's viole...
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The Krays
1999
The Lost Son
5.975/41
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a...
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The Lost Son
1988
Joyriders
10/1
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
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Joyriders
1983
Jamaica Inn
4/4
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and...
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Jamaica Inn
1982
The Dark Crystal
7.136/1246
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, be...
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The Dark Crystal
1987
Maurice
7.606/600
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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Maurice
1992
Duel of Hearts
7/3
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets...
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Duel of Hearts
1971
Gumshoe
6.368/38
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
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Gumshoe
1973
Night Watch
6.291/43
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the aband...
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Night Watch
1960
Hell Is a City
6.603/34
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starli...
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Hell Is a City
1961
Payroll
6.781/32
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van...
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Payroll
1991
A Murder of Quality
5.577/26
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just receive...
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A Murder of Quality
1987
The Secret Garden
7.684/49
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country ma...
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The Secret Garden
1960
Lena, O My Lena
8/1
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a mac...
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Lena, O My Lena
1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
5.956/45
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, C...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
6.588/57
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find...
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The Flesh and the Fiends
1968
Twisted Nerve
6.779/61
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he re...
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Twisted Nerve
1954
The Sleeping Tiger
5.484/32
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wish...
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The Sleeping Tiger
1968
Charlie Bubbles
6.625/20
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a...
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Charlie Bubbles
1970
Leo the Last
5.275/20
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European...
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Leo the Last
1988
The Dressmaker
4.6/5
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affai...
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The Dressmaker
1990
Lorna Doone
6.222/9
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
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Lorna Doone
1989
The Fifteen Streets
6.4/5
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the...
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The Fifteen Streets
1955
Room in the House
10/1
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
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Room in the House
1979
Leopard in the Snow
5/2
A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto...
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Leopard in the Snow
1972
Eagle in a Cage
6/3
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Eagle in a Cage
1961
No Love for Johnnie
6.667/9
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble...
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No Love for Johnnie
1989
The Picnic
0/0
A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, and her anticipation of a birthday picnic by the ri...
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The Picnic
1985
Shadey
4.429/7
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thought...
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Shadey
1994
Deadly Advice
4.714/7
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has fe...
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Deadly Advice
1957
Miracle in Soho
5.571/7
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets...
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Miracle in Soho
1996
Jane Eyre
6.903/243
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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Jane Eyre
1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
7/3
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespe...
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
1962
The Devil's Agent
6.7/5
Droste, a mild-mannered businessman, was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub, the two re...
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The Devil's Agent
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
6.9/20
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an...
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
1972
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
0/0
Jack Black is a disturbed commercial actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road
1984
Camille
5.5/19
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hop...
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Camille
1969
The Adding Machine
6.667/3
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
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The Adding Machine
1959
Bobbikins
6/3
This adventure follows the story of a young navy man, his wife and their baby son, Bobby, also known as Bobbikins. To his surprise, Dad discovers his...
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Bobbikins
1960
Make Mine Mink
6.912/17
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of...
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Make Mine Mink
1953
The Fake
5.909/11
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Ma...
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The Fake
1959
Breakout
7.125/4
For £1500, Chandler and his associates offer a prison break service.
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Breakout
1985
Murder Elite
7.667/3
An English woman returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.
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Murder Elite
2007
Hot Fuzz
7.562/8269
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he m...
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Hot Fuzz
1957
Small Hotel
7/3
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddlin...
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Small Hotel
1973
Not I
6.6/5
Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January 1973
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Not I
1955
Mr. Arkadin
6.848/191
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember any...
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Mr. Arkadin
1982
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
5.364/11
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of t...
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1983
Slayground
4.7/10
After thieves botch an armored truck robbery that leads to the death of an innocent young girl, her father vows revenge by recruiting a sociopathic hi...
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Slayground
1972
Poet Game
0/0
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against th...
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Poet Game
1984
The Chain
7/7
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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The Chain
1992
The Cloning of Joanna May
7/2
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught...
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The Cloning of Joanna May
1980
A Tale of Two Cities
5.95/20
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
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A Tale of Two Cities
2014
I, Of Whom I Know Nothing
5/1
John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the muse, so...
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I, Of Whom I Know Nothing
1994
Skallagrigg
4/3
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to t...
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Skallagrigg
1961
Mr. Topaze
5.889/9
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing...
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Mr. Topaze
1971
Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
0/0
In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
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Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
1964
The Comedy Man
7.063/8
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognit...
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The Comedy Man
1991
Morrissey - Hulmerist
0/0
Seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS in 1990 and then on DVD in 2004. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on 18 January 1991....
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Morrissey - Hulmerist
1982
Tangiers
7.5/2
A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who happens to be a stiff
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Tangiers
2001
The Story of 'Frenzy'
6/6
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
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The Story of 'Frenzy'
1993
The Entertainer
7/1
Adaptation of John Osborne's play.
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The Entertainer
1987
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
0/0
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays,...
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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
1968
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8/15
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the h...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1978
The Water Babies
6.25/16
Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young ap...
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The Water Babies
2005
The Curse of 'The Omen'
6.4/5
The filming of "The Omen" (1976) was plagued by tragedy and bizarre incidents. "The devil was at work and he didn't want that film made" - Producer Ha...
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The Curse of 'The Omen'
1996
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
0/0
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...
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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
1981
Rockaby
0/0
A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University of...
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Rockaby
2015
Notfilm
5/6
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical impl...
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Notfilm
1958
Carve Her Name with Pride
6.036/28
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t...
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Carve Her Name with Pride
1977
Ghost Trio
0/0
A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano T...
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Ghost Trio
1981
Last Summer's Child
0/0
Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Events make him grow up rather fast.
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Last Summer's Child
1978
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
10/1
Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the deat...
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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
5.273/33
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorceress aunt, who kills his father in a bid to seize...
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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1983
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
7.5/4
The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Bi...
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Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
1972
Night Duty
0/0
A night worker at a mental institution finds his job beginning to change.
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Night Duty
1998
Wife of Bath
7/1
Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic poetry. For attacking a young woman, an arrogant knight of King Arthur’s court is sentenced to death if he cannot...
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