Billie Whitelaw
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Launching her career on radio at age 11, British actress Billie Whitelaw spent several seasons as an assistant stage manager before making her theatrical acting debut in 1950. The blonde, hypertense Whitelaw started out in films as a standard leading... more
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Cast: Michael Caine Philip Kaufman Billie Whitelaw Geoffrey Rush Kate Winslet
Tags: Erotic Drama Biopic Period Film Drama
Length: 123min
The Marquis de Sade was a man who liked to stir up trouble, at a time when his native France was in a state of tremendous political turmoil, and this historical drama examines how much controversy he could cause even under repressive circumstances. In...
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin Virginia McKenna Billie Whitelaw Michael York Jeremy Kemp
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 95min
The made-for-TV Duel of Hearts is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland. It is difficult to believe that there's a Gothic-romance TV movie in existence that isn't based on a Cartland novel. Alison Doody plays gorgeous debutante Lady Caroline Faye, who...
Cast: Billie Whitelaw Aisling Walsh Andrew Connolly John Kavanagh David Kelly
Length: 94min
Mary (Patricia Kerrigan) is a battered wife with two small children, living in a grim section of Dublin. Unable to stand the abuse any longer, she runs away from home, leaving her kids behind. Without money or a place to stay, she's befriended by a...
Cast: Ben Kingsley Billie Whitelaw Brian Blessed Nigel Hawthorne Michael Hordern
Tags: Family
Length: 90min
A steamer trunk full of the voices of British acting greats (Ben Kingsley, Billie Whitelaw, Michael Hordern, Brian Blessed, and Jonathan Pryce) enliven this absurd pop-cartoon parody of the James Bond films. In a prologue taking place in a faraway...
Cast: Billie Whitelaw Peter Medak Tom Bell Victor Spinetti Norman Rossington
Tags: Crime Drama Biopic Gangster Film Crime
Length: 119min
Peter Medak directed this fact-based drama, chronicling the lives of the infamous Kray Brothers, notorious celebrities in 60s London. The Krays were twin gangsters who ruled London's stylish East End club scene, staking out their territory by...
Cast: Billie Whitelaw Sean Bean Kenneth Haigh Clive Owen Robert Stephens
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 90min
This British version of Lorna Doone is one of the more rewarding film adaptations of the venerable R. D. Blackmore novel. The plot remains as ever: Lorna (Polly Walker), a feisty 17th century Scots lass, falls in love with a much-despised landowner...
Cast: Billie Whitelaw Vic Armstrong Peter Coyote Mel Smith Terry Bedford
Tags: Escape Film Action
Length: 89min
In this undistinguished crime drama, Peter Coyote plays a thief on the run after an attempt to rob an armored car in upstate New York ends in the death of a little girl. Her father sends a hitman (Philip Sayer) to avenge her death, and the rest of the...
Cast: Philip Saville Patrick Macnee Billie Whitelaw Roger Deakins Katherine Helmond
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Thriller
Length: 90min
This surreal British black comedy tells the tale of poor Oliver Shadey, a mechanic who longs to become a woman but lacks the money for the operation. Oliver is a talented lad and has the rare ability to read the minds of people and put their thought...
Cast: Billie Whitelaw Leo McKern Jack Gold Maurice Denham Nigel Hawthorne
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Ensemble Film
Length: 96min
The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters, another moves in, and so it goes all the way up to the lavish mansioned owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle...
Cast: Joan Plowright Billie Whitelaw Jane Horrocks George Fenton Pete Postlethwaite
Length: 90min
The brilliant young British actress Jane Horrocks made her film debut in The Dressmaker. She plays Rita, the 17-year-old niece of two Liverpool sisters, who are united only by a common hatred. Older sister Nellie (Joan Plowright) is an emotionally...
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