Billie Whitelaw — Actor (22)
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Small Hotel (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Small Hotel
director: David MacDonald actor: Gordon Harker / Marie Lohr …
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 fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
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Bobbikins (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bobbikins
director: Robert Day actor: Shirley Jones / Max Bygraves …
This adventure follows the story of a young navy man, his wife and their baby son, Bobby, also known as Bobbikins. To his surprise, Dad discovers his son talks, not baby-talk or gibberish but has adult conversations with his father only. Bobbikins learns stock market tips and passes them to his Dad. After making a killing on the stock market, problems really begin. The dad is presumed mad, the government is after him, and the breakdown of relations between the young couple ensues. But there is hope.
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Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
director: D. A. Pennebaker / Chris Hegedus actor: 比莉·怀特劳 / Alan Schneider …
The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
director: Gillies MacKinnon actor: 朱迪·丹奇 / 伊恩·霍姆 …
other title: 더 라스트 오브 더 블론드 봄쉘즈 / La última de las Bombshells Rubias …
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 all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
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Deadly Advice (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Deadly Advice
director: Mandie Fletcher actor: Jane Horrocks / 布伦达·弗里克 …
other title: Consejos mortales / 致命建議 …
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 feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife
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NOT I (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Not I
director: Samuel Beckett actor: Billie Whitelaw
other title: Not I
Written in English in spring 1972. First performed at the Forum Theater of the Lincoln Center, New York, in September 1972. First published by Faber and Faber, London, in 1973. First performed in Britain at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 16 January 1973.
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The Entertainer (1993) [Movie] Douban
The Entertainer
director: Nicholas Renton actor: 迈克尔·刚本 / George Beach …
other title: 艺人
Osborne's portrait of a family on the brink of total breakdown. Set in English coastal resort during the 1950s. Archie Fry, a music-hall comedian, tries to escape life's misery through petty schemes and drinking, while his wife whiles away hours at the cinema.
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Leo the Last (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Leo the Last
director: 约翰·保曼 actor: 马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 / 比莉·怀特劳
other title: 最后李奥 / 风流二世祖 …
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 European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
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Eagle in a Cage (1972) [Movie] Douban
director: Fielder Cook actor: John Gielgud / Ralph Richardson …
War and women were his passions... and no island fortress could cage his lust for power!
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon. High brow.
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The Krays (1990) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Krays
director: 彼得·梅达克 actor: Gary Kemp / Martin Kemp …
other title: 双生杀手 / 克雷孪生兄弟 …
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 were active in London in the 1960s.
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A Murder of Quality (1991) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
A Murder of Quality
director: Gavin Millar actor: 丹霍姆·艾略特 / 乔斯·雅克兰德 …
other title: 优质杀手 / Asesinato de calidad …
Taken from the book by John le Carre, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junion master's wife at Carne School - a boy's school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master's wife brutually murdered with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed knit society of Carne and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.
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No Love for Johnnie (1961) [Movie] Douban
No Love for Johnnie
director: 拉尔夫·托马斯 actor: 彼得·芬奇 / 斯坦利·霍洛威 …
other title: 薄情郎 / 寂寞的男人
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 problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
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Camille (1984) [Movie] Douban
Camille
7.0 (8 ratings) director: 德斯蒙德·戴维斯 actor: 格列塔·斯卡奇 / 科林·费尔斯 …
other title: 茶花女
乡下少女玛格丽特（格列塔·斯卡奇 Greta Scacchi 饰）来到繁华的大都市巴黎，摇身一变成为了欢场之中的交际花，人们给她娶了一个代号——“茶花女”。玛格丽特不幸染上了肺病，在疗养院修养期间，玛格丽特结识了裘拉第公爵。公爵刚刚失去了女儿，而玛格丽特和他的女儿样貌极为相似，触景生情的公爵收养了玛格丽特，负担了她的生活费用。
一次偶然中，玛格丽特邂逅了名为阿尔芒（科林·费斯 Colin Firth 饰）的英俊青年。阿尔芒被玛格丽特的魅力所吸引，向她展开了火热的攻势。阿尔芒的温柔令玛格丽特深受感动，她渐渐放下了过去，接受了这段真挚的感情，然而，两人的恋情却遭到了阿尔芒的家人的强烈反对。
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Frenzy (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Frenzy
7.7 (150 ratings) director: 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 actor: 乔·芬奇 / 巴里·福斯特 …
other title: 프렌지 / フレンジー …
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.