Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBE 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.
Billie Whitelaw Biography / Wiki
| Name | Billie Whitelaw |
| Also Know | Билли Уайтлоу |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Coventry, England |
| Date of Birth | June 06, 1932 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 82 |
| Deathday | 2014-12-24 |
Billie Whitelaw Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Not I | 1973-11-27 | Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram Powell Directed by Anthony Page and Samuel Becke… | |
| An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Elizabeth Leaming | 1982-09-08 | 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 … |
| Born to Run | Lili Flitch | 1997-05-25 | Byron Flitch is not enjoying his anniversary party. Instead of making him a partner in their classic car business, his father Burke has demanded he wo… |
| Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee | Ruth | 1971-09-07 | 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…. |
| Rockaby | W | 1981-04-08 | 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… |
| Lena, O My Lena | Lena | 1960-09-25 | 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… |
| The Picnic | Margie | 1989-02-19 | ‘I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!’ …and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who’ll soon adjust to ha… |
| Gumshoe | Ellen | 1971-12-01 | A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case…. |
| Leo the Last | Margaret | 1970-09-04 | 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… |
| The Dressmaker | Margo | 1988-12-16 | 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… |
| Shadey | Doctor Cloud | 1985-05-31 | 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… |
| Follow The Yellow Brick Road | Judy Black | 1972-07-04 | Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera…. |
| Murder Elite | Margaret Baker | 1985-01-01 | An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer…. |
| Tangiers | Louise | 1985-01-01 | 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… |
| Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence | 1987-04-15 | The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays… | |
| The Krays | Violet Kray | 1990-04-27 | The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and … |
| Night Watch | Sarah Cooke | 1973-11-08 | 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… |
| Payroll | Jackie Parker | 1961-01-01 | 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… |
| Twisted Nerve | Joan Harper | 1968-12-20 | Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down’s syndrome. To cope, he re… |
| Charlie Bubbles | Lottie | 1968-02-11 | 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… |
| The Adding Machine | Daisy Devore | 1969-09-23 | An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities…. |
| Bobbikins | Lydia Simmons | 1959-07-28 | Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult…. |
| Eagle in a Cage | Madame Bertrand | 1972-01-09 | 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon… |
| Slayground | Madge | 1983-12-01 | Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and b… |
| The Cloning of Joanna May | Mavis | 1992-01-16 | 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… |
| Hulmerist | Cast – Everyday is Like Sunday | 1991-07-01 | Hulmerist is a VHS and DVD release that includes seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS, in 1990, and then on DVD in 2004. It… |
| The Water Babies | Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby / Old Crone / Mrs. Tripp / Woman in Black / Water Babies ‘Gate Keeper’ | 1978-06-23 | 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… |
| Ghost Trio | 1977-04-17 | 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… | |
| The Omen | Mrs. Baylock | 1976-06-25 | Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t k… |
| A Murder of Quality | Mad Janie | 1991-10-04 | 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… |
| The Fifteen Streets | Beatrice Llewellyn | 1989-01-01 | 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… |
| Leopard in the Snow | Isabel James | 1979-04-01 | 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 … |
| Camille | Prudence Duvorney | 1984-12-11 | 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… |
| Make Mine Mink | Lily | 1960-08-09 | 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… |
| I, Of Whom I Know Nothing | 2014-01-01 | 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, s… | |
| The Comedy Man | Judy | 1964-09-03 | 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… |
| Quills | Madame LeClerc | 2000-11-22 | A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, def… |
| Jamaica Inn | Aunt Patience | 1983-05-01 | 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… |
| Duel of Hearts | Dorcas | 1992-01-01 | 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… |
| Hell Is a City | Chloe Hawkins | 1960-04-10 | Set in Manchester, heartland of England’s industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England’s most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starli… |
| The Secret Garden | Mrs. Medlock | 1987-11-30 | 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… |
| Start the Revolution Without Me | Queen Marie | 1970-08-14 | An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and ari… |
| Lorna Doone | Sarah Ridd | 1990-01-01 | A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father…. |
| No Love for Johnnie | Mary | 1961-02-14 | 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… |
| The Devil’s Agent | Piroska Maslov | 1962-09-01 | German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his… |
| The Entertainer | Phoebe Rice | 1993-12-04 | Adaptation of John Osborne’s play…. |
| The Curse of ‘The Omen’ | 2005-10-26 | 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… | |
| Samuel Beckett As the Story Was Told | interviewee | 1996-04-13 | 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 … |
| The Lost Son | Mrs. Spitz | 1999-06-25 | 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 … |
| Maurice | Mrs. Hall | 1987-08-21 | After his lover rejects him, a young man in early 20th century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms wit… |
| Deadly Advice | Kate Webster | 1994-04-29 | 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… |
| The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Evelyn | 2000-08-26 | 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 … |
| Breakout | Rose Munro | 1959-03-01 | A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison…. |
| Small Hotel | Caroline Mallet | 1957-10-14 | 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… |
| Skallagrigg | Margaret | 1994-03-09 | 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… |
| Frenzy | Hetty Porter | 1972-05-25 | After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man…. |
| The Flesh and the Fiends | Mary Patterson | 1960-02-02 | 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 … |
| Miracle in Soho | Maggie | 1957-07-09 | 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 … |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Madame Therese Defarge | 1980-12-02 | Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles … |
| The Story of ‘Frenzy’ | Self | 2001-03-06 | Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy’…. |
| Notfilm | Self | 2015-10-27 | NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM — its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical impl… |
| The Chain | Mrs. Andreos | 1984-01-01 | Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other…. |
| Mr. Topaze | Ernestine | 1961-04-04 | Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses t… |
| The Dark Crystal | Aughra (voice) | 1982-12-17 | 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… |
| The Sleeping Tiger | Receptionist at Pearce & Mann | 1954-06-21 | 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… |
| Room in the House | Margaret | 1955-07-25 | Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons…. |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Gwyn Thomas | 1968-01-07 | 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… |
| Hot Fuzz | Joyce Cooper | 2007-02-14 | As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only doe… |
| Carve Her Name with Pride | Winnie | 1958-02-18 | London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t… |
| The Fake | Waitress | 1953-09-25 | Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci’s “Ma… |
| Joyriders | Tammi O’Moore | 1988-10-14 | The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars…. |
| An Audience with Mel Brooks | Self (uncredited) | 1984-02-04 | Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespe… |
| Terror in the Aisles | Mrs. Baylock (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 | A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time…. |
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