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
- The Lost Son as Mrs. Spitz
- Shooting the Past as Veronica
1998
- Merlin as Ambrosia
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
- Duel of Hearts as Dorcas
- Freddie As F.R.O.7. as Messina (voice)
- 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 Picnic as Margie
- The Fifteen Streets as Beatrice Llewellyn
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
- Shadey as Doctor Cloud
- Murder Elite as Margaret Baker
1984
- Camille as Prudence Duvorney
- An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- The Chain as Mrs. Andreos
1983
- Slayground as Madge
- Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience
- Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience
- Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' as The Actress
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Tangiers as Louise
- The Dark Crystal as Aughra (voice)
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman as Elizabeth Leaming
1981
- Last Summer's Child as Rose Marriott
- Private Schulz as Bertha Freyer
- Rockaby as W
1980
- A Tale of Two Cities as Madame Therese Defarge
1979
- Leopard in the Snow as Isabel James
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
1976
- The Omen as Mrs. Baylock
1975
- Space: 1999 as Zamara
1974
- Playhouse as Rose Marriott
- Napoleon and Love
1973
- Night Watch as Sarah Cooke
- Not I
- Wessex Tales
1972
- Poet Game as Jeanne Saunders
- Eagle in a Cage as Madame Bertrand
- Frenzy as Hetty Porter
- Night Duty as Wendy
- Follow The Yellow Brick Road as Judy Black
- The Sextet
1971
- Gumshoe as Ellen
- Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee as Ruth
1970
- Start the Revolution Without Me as Queen Marie
- Leo the Last as Margaret
1969
- The Adding Machine as Daisy Devore
1968
- Charlie Bubbles as Lottie
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gwyn Thomas
- Twisted Nerve as Joan Harper
1967
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Mrs. Janetta O'James
1964
- The Comedy Man as Judy
1963
- Festival as Marguerite Gautier
1962
- The Devil's Agent as Piroska Maslov
1961
- Payroll as Jackie Parker
- Mr. Topaze as Ernestine
- No Love for Johnnie as Mary
- Stryker of the Yard
1960
- Make Mine Mink as Lily
- The Flesh and the Fiends as Mary Patterson
- Hell Is a City as Chloe Hawkins
- 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
1955
- Room in the House as Margaret
- Mr. Arkadin as Raina Arkadin (voice) (uncredited)
1954
- The Sleeping Tiger as Receptionist at Pearce & Mann
1953
- The Fake as Waitress
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prudence