Billie Whitelaw RIP

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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Billie Whitelaw RIP

    Great actress - Beckett's favourite.

    Acclaimed actress Billie Whitelaw, who starred on stage and screen and worked in close collaboration with Samuel Beckett, dies in London.


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  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 12973

    #2
    One of the all time greats of avant garde and other kinds of theatre.

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      #3
      Originally posted by DracoM View Post
      One of the all time greats of avant garde and other kinds of theatre.
      Indeed. Such a loss, but quite a legacy

      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • DracoM
        Host
        • Mar 2007
        • 12973

        #4
        She starred in The Omen and Frenzy, but she will always be remembered for her powerful interpretations of Beckett’s plays


        Michael Billington's perception of her.

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        • aka Calum Da Jazbo
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 9173

          #5
          ... a hero; one of the great faces and voices of her times
          According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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          • amateur51

            #6
            When I was a teenager she appeared freuently in the living room, usually in an episode of Armchair Theatre.

            My family was never an easy audience but mention of her name always got an "oh good" from my mum, so there you go!


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            • aeolium
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3992

              #7
              I was so sorry to read of Billie Whitelaw's death. She was a quite wonderful actress, and what Beckett's biographer Anthony Cronin wrote of another supreme actor, Patrick Magee, could have been said of her as well: "there was a sense in which, as an actor, he had been waiting for Beckett as Beckett had been waiting for him". The dedication, intelligence and intensity which she brought to those performances of Beckett's work - some fortunately captured on film - are to me quite unforgettable. And that performance of Not I in particular I recall as the most astonishing dramatic performance I have ever seen on screen (sadly I was unable to see it live).

              RIP

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