Billie Whitelaw
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1932-06-06
Locus Natus: Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Et ut: Билли Уайтлоу, Billie Honor Whitelaw
Frenzy
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
release : 1972.05.25popularis : 11.86
The Omen
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he...
release : 1976.06.25popularis : 31.423
Quills
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,...
release : 2000.11.22popularis : 16.843
The Krays
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...
release : 1990.04.27popularis : 7.258
The Lost Son
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...
release : 1999.06.25popularis : 3.677
Joyriders
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
release : 1988.10.14popularis : 0.451
Jamaica Inn
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...
release : 1983.05.01popularis : 1.704
The Dark Crystal
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,...
release : 1982.12.17popularis : 28.63
Maurice
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
release : 1987.09.18popularis : 8.701
Duel of Hearts
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...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 1.802
Gumshoe
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
release : 1971.12.01popularis : 5.041
Night Watch
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...
release : 1973.11.08popularis : 9.81
Hell Is a City
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain...
release : 1960.04.10popularis : 5.261
Payroll
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...
release : 1961.01.01popularis : 6.234
A Murder of Quality
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...
release : 1991.10.04popularis : 9.814
The Secret Garden
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...
release : 1987.11.30popularis : 7.237
Lena, O My Lena
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...
release : 1960.09.25popularis : 3.576
Start the Revolution Without Me
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other,...
release : 1970.02.04popularis : 8.346
The Flesh and the Fiends
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...
release : 1960.02.02popularis : 5.048
Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...
release : 1968.12.20popularis : 7.229
The Sleeping Tiger
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...
release : 1954.06.21popularis : 2.866
Charlie Bubbles
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid...
release : 1968.02.11popularis : 2.465
Leo the Last
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...
release : 1970.09.04popularis : 2.58
The Dressmaker
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...
release : 1988.12.16popularis : 1.321
Lorna Doone
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
release : 1990.12.26popularis : 12.617
The Fifteen Streets
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,...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 4.445
Room in the House
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
release : 1955.07.25popularis : 1.413
Leopard in the Snow
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...
release : 1979.04.01popularis : 1.201
Eagle in a Cage
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
release : 1972.01.09popularis : 4.801
No Love for Johnnie
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...
release : 1961.02.14popularis : 3.139
The Picnic
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...
release : 1989.02.19popularis : 3.58
Shadey
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...
release : 1985.05.31popularis : 2.233
Deadly Advice
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...
release : 1994.04.29popularis : 5.281
Miracle in Soho
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...
release : 1957.07.09popularis : 1.979
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns...
release : 1996.01.20popularis : 11.714
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British...
release : 1984.02.04popularis : 6.327
The Devil's Agent
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...
release : 1962.09.01popularis : 3.004
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
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...
release : 2000.08.26popularis : 8.746
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
release : 1972.07.04popularis : 1.186
Camille
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...
release : 1984.12.11popularis : 2.845
The Adding Machine
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
release : 1969.09.23popularis : 4.823
Bobbikins
Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
release : 1959.07.28popularis : 1.2
Make Mine Mink
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...
release : 1960.08.09popularis : 2.673
The Fake
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's...
release : 1953.09.25popularis : 4.015
Breakout
A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
release : 1959.03.01popularis : 0.96
Murder Elite
An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.903
Hot Fuzz
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...
release : 2007.02.14popularis : 27.149
Small Hotel
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...
release : 1957.10.14popularis : 1.823
Not I
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...
release : 1973.11.27popularis : 1.024
Mr. Arkadin
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...
release : 1955.08.09popularis : 12.084
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
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...
release : 1982.02.16popularis : 3.299
Slayground
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...
release : 1983.12.01popularis : 2.411
Poet Game
A hard-drinking poet (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday.
release : 1972.03.14popularis : 2.246
The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 7.79
The Cloning of Joanna May
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...
release : 1992.01.16popularis : 1.223
A Tale of Two Cities
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles...
release : 1980.12.02popularis : 4.348
I, Of Whom I Know Nothing
John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the...
release : 2014.01.01popularis : 3.312
Skallagrigg
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...
release : 1994.03.09popularis : 1.845
Mr. Topaze
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...
release : 1961.04.04popularis : 4.025
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 lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
release : 1971.09.07popularis : 4.375
The Comedy Man
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...
release : 1964.09.03popularis : 4.131
Hulmerist
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....
release : 1991.07.01popularis : 0.868
Tangiers
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
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 0.876
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
release : 2001.03.06popularis : 2.26
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose,...
release : 1987.04.15popularis : 3.219
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 Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the...
release : 1968.01.07popularis : 5.333
The Water Babies
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...
release : 1978.06.23popularis : 6.014
The Curse of 'The Omen'
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...
release : 2005.10.26popularis : 2.578
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 formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...
release : 1996.04.13popularis : 1.513
Rockaby
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...
release : 1981.04.08popularis : 0.596
Notfilm
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical...
release : 2015.10.27popularis : 6.415
Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses...
release : 1958.02.18popularis : 4.297
Ghost Trio
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...
release : 1977.04.17popularis : 0.839