Billie Whitelaw: movies and TV shows
Billie Whitelaw has 124 credits in the archive: 81 films and 43 TV series, from 1951 to 2015. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2015 · busiest year: 1972 (13 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Notfilm | Self | Film | 5.0 | 83 |
| 2014 | I, Of Whom I Know Nothing | Film | 5.0 | 82 | |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Joyce Cooper | Film | 7.6 | 75 |
| 2005 | The Curse of 'The Omen' | Self | Film | 6.4 | 73 |
| 2001 | Judge John Deed | TV | 6.8 | 69 | |
| 2001 | The Story of 'Frenzy' | Self | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2000 | Quills | Madame LeClerc | Film | 7.1 | 68 |
| 2000 | A Dinner of Herbs | Kate Makepeace | TV | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Evelyn | Film | 6.9 | 68 |
| 1999 | Shooting the Past | Veronica | TV | 7.1 | 67 |
| 1999 | The Lost Son | Mrs. Spitz | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 1998 | Merlin | Ambrosia | TV | 6.9 | 66 |
| 1998 | Wife of Bath | Wife of Bath (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1997 | Born to Run | Lili Flitch | TV | 9.0 | 65 |
| 1996 | Jane Eyre | Grace Poole | Film | 6.9 | 64 |
| 1996 | Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told | interviewee | Film | — | 64 |
| 1994 | Deadly Advice | Kate Webster | Film | 4.7 | 62 |
| 1994 | Skallagrigg | Margaret | Film | 4.0 | 62 |
| 1993 | The Entertainer | Phoebe Rice | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1992 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Messina (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 1992 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Mavis | TV | — | 60 |
| 1992 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Mavis | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1992 | Firm Friends | Rose Gutteridge | TV | — | 60 |
| 1992 | Duel of Hearts | Dorcas | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1991 | Performance | Phoebe Rice | TV | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1991 | Morrissey - Hulmerist | Cast - Everyday is Like Sunday | Film | — | 59 |
| 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Mad Janie | Film | 5.6 | 59 |
| 1990 | The Krays | Violet Kray | Film | 6.1 | 58 |
| 1990 | Lorna Doone | Sarah Ridd | Film | 6.2 | 58 |
| 1989 | The Fifteen Streets | Beatrice Llewellyn | Film | 6.4 | 57 |
| 1989 | The Picnic | Margie | Film | — | 57 |
| 1988 | The Dressmaker | Margo | Film | 4.6 | 56 |
| 1988 | Joyriders | Tammi O'Moore | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 1987 | Maurice | Mrs. Hall | Film | 7.6 | 55 |
| 1987 | The Secret Garden | Mrs. Medlock | Film | 7.7 | 55 |
| 1987 | Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence | Film | — | 55 | |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Margie | TV | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1985 | Murder Elite | Margaret Baker | Film | 7.7 | 53 |
| 1985 | Shadey | Doctor Cloud | Film | 4.4 | 53 |
| 1984 | Camille | Prudence Duvorney | Film | 5.5 | 52 |
| 1984 | An Audience with Mel Brooks | Self (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1984 | The Chain | Mrs. Andreos | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1983 | Jamaica Inn | Aunt Patience | TV | 5.0 | 51 |
| 1983 | Slayground | Madge | Film | 4.7 | 51 |
| 1983 | Jamaica Inn | Aunt Patience | Film | 4.0 | 51 |
| 1983 | Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' | The Actress | Film | 7.5 | 51 |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self | TV | 5.3 | 50 |
| 1982 | The Dark Crystal | Aughra (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1982 | Tangiers | Louise | Film | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1982 | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Elizabeth Leaming | Film | 5.4 | 50 |
| 1981 | Private Schulz | Bertha Freyer | TV | 5.3 | 49 |
| 1981 | Last Summer's Child | Rose Marriott | Film | — | 49 |
| 1981 | Rockaby | W | Film | — | 49 |
| 1980 | A Tale of Two Cities | Madame Therese Defarge | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1979 | Leopard in the Snow | Isabel James | Film | 5.0 | 47 |
| 1979 | Happy Days | Winnie | Film | — | 47 |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | TV | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1978 | The Water Babies | Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby / Old Crone / Mrs. Tripp / Woman in Black / Water Babies 'Gate Keeper' | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1978 | Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man | Emma Hardy | Film | 10.0 | 46 |
| 1977 | Supernatural | Countess Ilona | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1977 | Ghost Trio | Film | — | 45 | |
| 1976 | The Omen | Mrs. Baylock | Film | 7.4 | 44 |
| 1976 | The Lively Arts | Self | TV | — | 44 |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Zamara | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 1975 | Ten from the Twenties | Lally | TV | — | 43 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Rose Marriott | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | Napoleon and Love | Josephine Bonaparte | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | Rhoda | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1973 | Night Watch | Sarah Cooke | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1973 | Not I | Auditor/Mouth | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 1972 | Frenzy | Hetty Porter | Film | 7.1 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Megan | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Wendy | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Eileen Firebrace | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Judy Black | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Dora | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Katherine | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Valerie Goodis | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Sextet | Stella Ramsdale | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | Night Duty | Wendy | Film | — | 40 |
| 1972 | Follow the Yellow Brick Road | Judy Black | Film | — | 40 |
| 1972 | Eagle in a Cage | Madame Bertrand | Film | 6.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | Poet Game | Jeanne Saunders | Film | — | 40 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 39 |
| 1971 | Gumshoe | Ellen Ginley | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1971 | Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee | Ruth | Film | — | 39 |
| 1970 | Start the Revolution Without Me | Queen Marie | Film | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1970 | Leo the Last | Margaret | Film | 5.3 | 38 |
| 1969 | The Adding Machine | Daisy Devore | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1968 | Twisted Nerve | Joan Harper | Film | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1968 | Charlie Bubbles | Lottie | Film | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1968 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Gwyn Thomas | Film | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1967 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Mrs. Janetta O'James | TV | — | 35 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Greta | TV | 4.2 | 33 |
| 1964 | The Comedy Man | Judy | Film | 7.1 | 32 |
| 1963 | Festival | Marguerite Gautier | TV | 8.0 | 31 |
| 1963 | Espionage | Doreen McBride | TV | 10.0 | 31 |
| 1962 | The Devil's Agent | Piroska Maslov | Film | 6.7 | 30 |
| 1961 | Stryker of the Yard | TV | — | 29 | |
| 1961 | Mr. Topaze | Ernestine | Film | 5.9 | 29 |
| 1961 | No Love for Johnnie | Mary | Film | 6.7 | 29 |
| 1961 | Payroll | Jackie Parker | Film | 6.8 | 29 |
| 1960 | The Flesh and the Fiends | Mary Patterson | Film | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1960 | Hell Is a City | Chloe Hawkins | Film | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1960 | Lena, O My Lena | Lena | Film | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1960 | Make Mine Mink | Lily | Film | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1959 | Breakout | Rose Munro | Film | 7.1 | 27 |
| 1959 | Bobbikins | Lydia Simmons | Film | 6.0 | 27 |
| 1958 | Carve Her Name with Pride | Winnie | Film | 6.0 | 26 |
| 1957 | Miracle in Soho | Maggie | Film | 5.6 | 25 |
| 1957 | Small Hotel | Caroline Mallet | Film | 7.0 | 25 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Agnes Mawson | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Gloria | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Marlene Watts | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Lena | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Nancy Harper | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Francesca | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Ruth | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1955 | Mr. Arkadin | Raina Arkadin (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 23 |
| 1955 | Room in the House | Margaret | Film | 10.0 | 23 |
| 1954 | The Sleeping Tiger | Receptionist at Pearce & Mann | Film | 5.5 | 22 |
| 1953 | The Fake | Waitress | Film | 5.9 | 21 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Prudence | TV | 8.8 | 19 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Mrs. Medlock | TV | 8.8 | 19 |