Billie Whitelaw

Billie Whitelaw (born June 6, 1932 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England) is a distinguished British actress. After training at RADA, Whitelaw made her stage debut in 1950 and her film debut in 1953. Soon becoming a regular in British films of the 1950s and [[1960s], her more notable film credits include Charlie Bubbles (1967), Frenchy (written by Anthony Shaffer, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, 1972), The Omen (1976), The Water Babies (1979), Maurice (based on E. M. Forster's posthumously published no ...

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Quills is a 2000 film based on a play that was inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade. The movie was adapted by Doug Wright from his play, and was directed by Philip Kaufman. It stars Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis, Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbé, and Michael Caine as Dr. Royer-Collard. Kate Winslet also starred as the chambermaid Madeleine. According to Wright, it was her interest in the role, immediately following the success of ...

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Aughra is one of the supporting characters in Jim Henson's imaginative 1982 fantasy classic film The Dark Crystal. In the movie, she is portrayed primarily by Frank Oz in a costume. Oz also voiced Aughra originally (making her sound very similar to a hybrid of Fozzie Bear and Yoda), but later her lines were re-dubbed by Billie Whitelaw. Aughra - About Aughra. A horned, one-eyed, wild-haired Seer, Aughra is the sole member of her race. She is known as the Watcher of the Heavens and the ...

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The film has become well known for a couple of grisly key scenes. The rape and murder of the Brenda character, played by Barbara Leigh-Hunt makes use of numerous short edits in a similar fashion to the Janet Leigh shower scene in Psycho, and this serves to heighten the images of violence and horror. Only one murder is depicted onscreen as screenwriter Schaffer convinced Hitchcock that to show a second murder would be redundant. The murder of the barmaid Babs occurs offscreen, although the audience is shown her entering the killer's fl ...

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Although early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St. Peter’s at Westminster (AD 986) and it is referred to in the Domesday Book (1086), the history of Hampstead is generally traced back to the 17th century. Trustees of the Well started advertising the medicinal qualities of the chalybeate waters (water impregnated with iron) in 1700. Although Hampstead Wells was initially successful, its popularity declined in the 1800s due to competition with other London spas. The spa was demolished in 1882, altho ...

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In 1915, an English language film, the first one to use the name Camille, was made. It was adapted by Frances Marion and directed by Albert Capellani, and stars Clara Kimball Young, Paul Capellani, Lillian Cook and Robert Cummings. In 1917 an American film was made, adapted by Adrian Johnson and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. It stars Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe, Walter Law, Glen White, Alice Gale, Claire Whitney and Richard Barthelmess. A 1921 version was adapted by June Mathis and directed by Ray C. ...

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Both the book and the movie were written by David Seltzer. The book preceeded the movie by two weeks as an effective marketing gimmick. For the book, Seltzer took liberties with his own material, changing details (such as character names) and often augmenting plot points. The second and third novels were novelizations of their respective movies, and reflected movie continuity, more or less. The fourth novel, Omen IV: Armageddon was entirely unrelated to the fourth movie, but continued the story of Omen III. Its premise w ...

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The Omen, The Omen - Cast, The Omen - Novels, The Omen - The name Damien

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Hampstead has long been known as a residence of actors, artists, writers, and intellectuals. Famous past inhabitants have included: John Keats, Sir Ernst Gombrich, Jerry Springer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Wollheim, Sigmund Freud, John Constable, Sir A.J. Ayer, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Sir Roger Penrose, Arnold Bax, Stephen Fry, George Orwell, Edward Elgar, Hugh Gaitskell, Peter Cook, Dusty Springfield ...

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Hampstead has long been known as a residence of actors, artists, writers, and intellectuals. Famous past inhabitants have included: John Keats, Sir Ernst Gombrich, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Wollheim, Sigmund Freud, John Constable, Sir A.J. Ayer, Sir Roger Penrose, Arnold Bax, Stephen Fry, George Orwell, Edward Elgar, Peter Cook, Dusty Springfield and Emma Bunton (Baby Spice). Hampstead is currently home to: Sol Campbell, Sean Bean, Kenneth Branagh, Billie Whitelaw, Anthony Minghella, Boy George, Liam Gallagher, Nicole Appleton, ...

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Hampstead became part of the County of London in 1888 and in 1899 the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead was formed. The borough town hall, on Rosslyn Hill, because it was also the location of the Registry Office, can be seen in newsreel footage of many celebrity civil marriages. In 1965 the metropolitan borough was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn and the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras to form the modern-day London Borough of Camden. Hampstead is part of the Hampstead and Highgate constituency and since 1992 the member of parliament has been the former actre ...

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To the north and east of Hampstead, and separating it from Highgate, is London's largest ancient parkland, Hampstead Heath, which includes the well-known and legally-protected view of the London skyline from Parliament Hill. The Heath, an major place for Londoners to walk and "take the air", has three open-air public swimming ponds; one for men, one for women, and one for mixed bathing, which were originally reservoirs for drinking ...

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