Billie Whitelaw
Born: 1932-06-06 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Died: 2014-12-21
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2015
- Notfilm as Self
2007
- Hot Fuzz as Joyce Cooper
2005
- The Curse of 'The Omen' as Self
2001
- Judge John Deed
- The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self
2000
- Quills as Madame LeClerc
- A Dinner of Herbs as Kate Makepeace
- The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Evelyn
1999
- Shooting the Past as Veronica
- The Lost Son as Mrs. Spitz
1998
- Merlin as Ambrosia
- Wife of Bath as Wife of Bath (voice)
1997
- Born to Run as Lili Flitch
1996
- Jane Eyre as Grace Poole
- Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told as interviewee
1994
- Deadly Advice as Kate Webster
- Skallagrigg as Margaret
1993
- The Entertainer as Phoebe Rice
1992
- Freddie As F.R.O.7. as Messina (voice)
- The Cloning of Joanna May as Mavis
- Firm Friends as Rose Gutteridge
- Duel of Hearts as Dorcas
- The Cloning of Joanna May as Mavis
1991
- Performance as Phoebe Rice
- A Murder of Quality as Mad Janie
- Morrissey - Hulmerist as Cast - Everyday is Like Sunday
1990
- The Krays as Violet Kray
- Lorna Doone as Sarah Ridd
1989
- The Fifteen Streets as Beatrice Llewellyn
- The Picnic as Margie
1988
- The Dressmaker as Margo
- Joyriders as Tammi O'Moore
1987
- Maurice as Mrs. Hall
- The Secret Garden as Mrs. Medlock
- Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
1985
- Screen Two as Margie
- Murder Elite as Margaret Baker
- Shadey as Doctor Cloud
1984
- An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- Camille as Prudence Duvorney
- The Chain as Mrs. Andreos
- Slayground as Madge
1983
- Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience
- Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience
- Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' as The Actress
1982
- Wogan as Self
- The Dark Crystal as Aughra (voice)
- Tangiers as Louise
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman as Elizabeth Leaming
1981
- Private Schulz as Bertha Freyer
- Last Summer's Child as Rose Marriott
- Rockaby as W
1980
- A Tale of Two Cities as Madame Therese Defarge
1979
- Leopard in the Snow as Isabel James
- Happy Days as Winnie
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- The Water Babies as Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby / Old Crone / Mrs. Tripp / Woman in Black / Water Babies 'Gate Keeper'
- Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man as Emma Hardy
1977
- Supernatural as Countess Ilona
- Ghost Trio
1976
- The Omen as Mrs. Baylock
- The Lively Arts as Self
1975
- Space: 1999 as Zamara
- Ten from the Twenties as Eulalia 'Lally' Burnes
1974
- Playhouse as Rose Marriott
- Napoleon and Love as Josephine Bonaparte
1973
- Wessex Tales as Rhoda
- Not I as Auditor/Mouth
- Night Watch as Sarah Cooke
1972
- Frenzy as Hetty Porter
- The Sextet as Megan
- Night Duty as Wendy
- Poet Game as Jeanne Saunders
- Eagle in a Cage as Madame Bertrand
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road as Judy Black
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Gumshoe as Ellen Ginley
- Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee as Ruth
1970
- Wicked Women as Madeleine Jury
- Start the Revolution Without Me as Queen Marie
- Leo the Last as Margaret
1969
- The Adding Machine as Daisy Devore
1968
- Twisted Nerve as Joan Harper
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gwyn Thomas
- Charlie Bubbles as Lottie
1967
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Mrs. Janetta O'James
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Greta
- Knock on Any Door as Queenie Swann
1964
- The Comedy Man as Judy
1962
- The Devil's Agent as Piroska Maslov
1961
- Stryker of the Yard
- Mr. Topaze as Ernestine
- Payroll as Jackie Parker
- No Love for Johnnie as Mary
1960
- Hell Is a City as Chloe Hawkins
- The Flesh and the Fiends as Mary Patterson
- Make Mine Mink as Lily
- Lena, O My Lena as Lena
1958
- Carve Her Name with Pride as Winnie
1957
- Small Hotel as Caroline Mallet
- Miracle in Soho as Maggie
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Agnes Mawson
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Brenda
- Mr. Arkadin as Raina Arkadin (voice) (uncredited)
- Room in the House as Margaret
1954
- The Sleeping Tiger as Receptionist at Pearce & Mann
1953
- The Fake as Waitress
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prudence