Remembering Billie Honor Whitelaw (1932-2014), the exceptional, BAFTA-winning English star of stage and screen, born in Coventry #OnThisDay. Acclaimed in the West End from the late 1950s and revered as Samuel Beckett's "perfect actress", she was often outstanding in films & TV, including #TheFleshAndTheFiends and #HellIsACity (both 1960), with Albert Finney in #CharlieBubbles (1968) and #Gumshoe (1971)...
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...#TwistedNerve (1969), Hitchcock's #Frenzy (1972) and the twins' mum in #TheKrays (1990). Unforgettable as the black-clad Mrs Baylock, loyal Nanny to the Antichrist in Richard Donner's #TheOmen (1976).
#BillieWhitelaw #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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@CineRequiem One of the best Horror Dog lines in a film - “Give you a fright, did he sir?”