Billie Whitelaw

  • Christopher Petit – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)

    1981-1990Christopher PetitMysteryThrillerUnited Kingdom

    After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man’s son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man’s memory and his increasingly suspicious death.Read More »

  • Anthony Page – Not I (1973)

    1971-1980Anthony PageExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    A fascinating monologue of Samuel Beckett’s work, In A Wake For Sam, in which the only visible part of Ms Whitelaw are her lips, mouth and teeth. Mesmerising and chilling. Don’t forget to turn out the lights!Read More »

  • Stephen Frears – Gumshoe (1971)

    1971-1980ComedyMysteryStephen FrearsUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Ginley (Albert Finney) is a nightclub bingo caller eager for a career change. On his thirty-first birthday, he advertises himself as a private eye in the newspaper. He dons a trench coat, and begins engaging others in rapid-fire dialogue as if he were Humphrey Bogart, or some Dashiell Hammett creation. Soon after, Ginley is phoned by a fat man, who gives him a package containing a gun, a photograph, and a large sum of money. Eventually Ginley is investigating a case involving smuggling of weapons as well as drugs. Read More »

  • Albert Finney – Charlie Bubbles (1967)

    1961-1970Albert FinneyDramaUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    “Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer’s basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.”
    – alfiehitchie (IMDb)Read More »

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