Billie Whitelaw
Acting • Born 1932-06-06 – Died 2014-12-21
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
109 credits
Frenzy
Movie • 1972
Hetty Porter
The Omen
Movie • 1976
Mrs. Baylock
Quills
Movie • 2000
Madame LeClerc
The Krays
Movie • 1990
Violet Kray
The Lost Son
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Spitz
Joyriders
Movie • 1988
Tammi O'Moore
Jamaica Inn
Movie • 1983
Aunt Patience
The Dark Crystal
Movie • 1982
Aughra (voice)
Maurice
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Hall
Duel of Hearts
Movie • 1992
Dorcas
Gumshoe
Movie • 1971
Ellen
Night Watch
Movie • 1973
Sarah Cooke
Hell Is a City
Movie • 1960
Chloe Hawkins
Payroll
Movie • 1961
Jackie Parker
A Murder of Quality
Movie • 1991
Mad Janie
The Secret Garden
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Medlock
Lena, O My Lena
Movie • 1960
Lena
Start the Revolution Without Me
Movie • 1970
Queen Marie
The Flesh and the Fiends
Movie • 1960
Mary Patterson
Twisted Nerve
Movie • 1968
Joan Harper
The Sleeping Tiger
Movie • 1954
Receptionist at Pearce & Mann
Charlie Bubbles
Movie • 1968
Lottie
Leo the Last
Movie • 1970
Margaret
The Dressmaker
Movie • 1988
Margo
Lorna Doone
Movie • 1990
Sarah Ridd
The Fifteen Streets
Movie • 1989
Beatrice Llewellyn
Room in the House
Movie • 1955
Margaret
Leopard in the Snow
Movie • 1979
Isabel James
Eagle in a Cage
Movie • 1972
Madame Bertrand
No Love for Johnnie
Movie • 1961
Mary
The Picnic
Movie • 1989
Margie
Shadey
Movie • 1985
Doctor Cloud
Deadly Advice
Movie • 1994
Kate Webster
Miracle in Soho
Movie • 1957
Maggie
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1996
Grace Poole
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie • 1984
Self (uncredited)
The Devil's Agent
Movie • 1962
Piroska Maslov
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Movie • 2000
Evelyn
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Movie • 1972
Judy Black
Camille
Movie • 1984
Prudence Duvorney
The Adding Machine
Movie • 1969
Daisy Devore
Bobbikins
Movie • 1959
Lydia Simmons
Make Mine Mink
Movie • 1960
Lily
The Fake
Movie • 1953
Waitress
Breakout
Movie • 1959
Rose Munro
Murder Elite
Movie • 1985
Margaret Baker
Hot Fuzz
Movie • 2007
Joyce Cooper
Small Hotel
Movie • 1957
Caroline Mallet
Not I
Movie • 1973
Auditor/Mouth
Mr. Arkadin
Movie • 1955
Raina Arkadin (voice) (uncredited)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Movie • 1982
Elizabeth Leaming
Slayground
Movie • 1983
Madge
Poet Game
Movie • 1972
Jeanne Saunders
The Chain
Movie • 1984
Mrs. Andreos
The Cloning of Joanna May
Movie • 1992
Mavis
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1980
Madame Therese Defarge
I, Of Whom I Know Nothing
Movie • 2014
Skallagrigg
Movie • 1994
Margaret
Mr. Topaze
Movie • 1961
Ernestine
Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
Movie • 1971
Ruth
The Comedy Man
Movie • 1964
Judy
Morrissey - Hulmerist
Movie • 1991
Cast - Everyday is Like Sunday
Tangiers
Movie • 1982
Louise
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Entertainer
Movie • 1993
Phoebe Rice
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
Movie • 1987
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1968
Gwyn Thomas
The Water Babies
Movie • 1978
Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby / Old Crone / Mrs. Tripp / Woman in Black / Water Babies 'Gate Keeper'
The Curse of 'The Omen'
Movie • 2005
Self
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
Movie • 1996
interviewee
Rockaby
Movie • 1981
W
Notfilm
Movie • 2015
Self
Carve Her Name with Pride
Movie • 1958
Winnie
Ghost Trio
Movie • 1977
Last Summer's Child
Movie • 1981
Rose Marriott
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Movie • 1978
Emma Hardy
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Movie • 1992
Messina (voice)
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
Movie • 1983
The Actress
Night Duty
Movie • 1972
Wendy
Wife of Bath
Movie • 1998
Wife of Bath
Space: 1999
TV • 1975
Zamara
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Prudence
Judge John Deed
TV • 2001
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Stryker of the Yard
TV • 1961
Born to Run
TV • 1997
Lili Flitch
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Merlin
TV • 1998
Ambrosia
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mrs. Medlock
Shooting the Past
TV • 1999
Veronica
Performance
TV • 1991
Phoebe Rice
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Rose Marriott
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
TV • 1967
Mrs. Janetta O'James
Festival
TV • 1963
Marguerite Gautier
A Dinner of Herbs
TV • 2000
Kate Makepeace
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Margie
Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Bertha Freyer
Supernatural
TV • 1977
Countess Ilona
Napoleon and Love
TV • 1974
Josephine Bonaparte
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Megan
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Wendy
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Eileen Firebrace
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Judy Black
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Dora
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Katherine
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Valerie Goodis
The Sextet
TV • 1972
Stella Ramsdale
Wessex Tales
TV • 1973
Rhoda
Jamaica Inn
TV • 1983
Aunt Patience