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  • Quills
  • Quills review by from Bristol, UK
    Rated - 3 stars 1792 The Marquis de Sade LOVES to write! 5 January 2006
    ................This is a well acted story by all but Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Billie Whitelaw and Joaquin Phoenix stand out. ........(Michael) Caine is Caine as a cruel doct...  
  • Make Mine Mink
  • Make Mine Mink review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 3 stars Good fun 28 June 2005
    ...challenge and excitement in their lives. Then an indiscretion by Dame B's maid (Billie Whitelaw) gives them the opportunity to brighten up their lives. The foursome set out on...  
  • Shooting The Past
  • Shooting The Past review by skeadugenga from Reading, England
    Rated - 5 stars I love this film 14 October 2005
    ... the support of the others. Lindsay Duncan and Liam Cunningham are marvellous, Billie Whitelaw sublime. And the story is impressive, the photographs so touching and the sens...  

Billie Whitelaw - filmography


  • Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Nick Frost,  Bill Bailey
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,435 member
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  • Hot Fuzz on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Nick Frost,  Bill Bailey
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 88,638 members
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  • Quills on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kate Winslet,  Michael Caine,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,884 members
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  • Merlin on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Helena Bonham-Carter,  John Gielgud
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This ambitious, all-star miniseries treatment of the Round Table legends is narrated from the perspective of the sorcerer Merlin (Sam Neill), who must choose between loyalty to the court and his love for beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini). Solid acting and spectacular special effects combine to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,881 member
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  • Jane Eyre on DVD (1996)
    Starring: William Hurt,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Charlotte Bronte's classic novel of Gothic romance gets the Zeffirelli treatment in this moving adaptation. Orphaned Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) grows into a strong-willed heroine after enduring a miserable childhood (where she's played by Anne Paquin). Things start looking better when she ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,800 member
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  • A Murder Of Quality on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Denholm Elliott,  Joss Ackland,  Glenda Jackson
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The British class system is under fire in this adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. One-time spy master George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is called in to investigate the murder of Stella Strode, a schoolteacher's wife at a public school. She had predicted her own death in a letter to a friend. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 535 members
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  • Duel Of Hearts on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Richard Johnson,  Billie Whitelaw,  Michael York
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When Lady Caroline (Alison Doody) first meets Lord Vane (Benedict Taylor), he has been accused of murder. A companion to Vane's mother, she discovers the family is as rich in secrets as in fortunes. Only one thing is certain in Caroline's mind--that true love and honour will win out. The made-for-..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 93 members
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,376 members
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  • The Chain (1985)
    Starring: Warren Mitchell,  Nigel Hawthorne,  Denis Lawson
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 38 members
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  • The Water Babies on DVD (1978)
    Starring: James Mason,  Billie Whitelaw,  Bernard Cribbins
    Director: Lionel Jeffries
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Charles Kingsley's classic magical children's tale of Tom, a twelve year-old boy who is apprenticed to the unkind Master Chimney Sweep, Grimes. Life is tough for Tom - while he sweeps, Grimes and his unpleasant sidekick, Masterman, busy themselves thieving. Live action and animation.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 801 members
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  • The Omen on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Lee Remick,  David Warner
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A staid American ambassador (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) are heartbroken when their child is stillborn, but their heartbreak is only beginning when they adopt an orphan. As the boy grows, disaster surrounds him, beginning with the suicide of his nanny, and as the bodies pile up, his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 13,820 members
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  • Eagle In A Cage (1972)
    Starring: John Gielgud,  Ralph Richardson,  Kenneth Haigh
    Director: Fielder Cook
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fielder Cook brings an intimacy to his direction of EAGLE IN A CAGE. This underrated film stars Kenneth Haigh as Napoleon Bonaparte, in his years of exile on St. Helena. The story is told from the point of view of the island's governor (John Gielgud), a former schoolteacher who finds greatness ..read more »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 20% from 2 members
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  • Frenzy on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Alec McCowen,  Barry Foster
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,256 members
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  • Gumshoe (1971)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Billie Whitelaw,  Fulton MacKay
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A Liverpudlian bingo caller dreams of becoming a Bogart type private eye. He decides to advertise his services as a private investigator, and that's when his troubles really start...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 28 members
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  • Make Mine Mink on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Alastair Sim,  hattie Jacques
    Director: Robert Hamer,  Robert Asher,  John Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 374 members
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  • The Chain to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Denis Lawson,  Rita Wolf,  Phyllis Logan
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 93 minutes
    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 mansion owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle starts all over again when McKern, wishing to be closer ..read more »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 15% from 2 members
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  • Make Mine Mink to Watch Now (1960)
    Starring: Athene Seyler,  hattie Jacques,  Elspeth Duxbury
    Director: Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 80 minutes
    A group of people hatch a plan to steal fur coats, sell them and give the money to charity. As a group, however, they are not particularly experienced in such matters. Major Rayne is under the impression he is in charge of the proceedings, but his military precision is at times disastrous.
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Billie Whitelaw facts

5 most recent films

Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - 3.5 stars
Quills - 3.0 stars
Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - 3.5 stars
Private Schulz - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Napoleon And Love - The Complete Series - 1.0 stars
The Cloning Of Joanna May - The Complete Series - 1.0 stars
Eagle In A Cage - 1.0 stars
Slayground - 2.5 stars
Gumshoe - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stuart Wilson - 3 times - show films
Paddy Considine - 3 times - show films
Kevin Eldon - 3 times - show films
Anne Reid - 3 times - show films
Bill Bailey - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Edgar Wright - 3 times - show films
Lewis Gilbert - 2 times - show films
Richard Donner - 2 times - show films
Robert Asher - 2 times - show films
Jack Gold - 2 times - show films