Sandy Whitelaw

Known for ActingBorn 1930-04-28Died 2015-02-20London, England

Alexander "Sandy" Whitelaw (28 April 1930 – 20 February 2015) was a British actor, producer, director and subtitler. Whitelaw was born in London and educated in Switzerland, the UK and the United States. He represented Britain as a skier in the 1956 Olympics. Whitelaw's film career began when he worked as an assistant to the producer David O. Selznick on the 1957 film A Farewell to Arms. He also worked for the production company Hecht-Lancaster. He went on to work for United Artists in a number of capacities, including as head of production for UA Europe. At this time he was based in London and worked on films including Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972), Federico Fellini’s Roma (1972) and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Decameron (1971). He directed two films: Lifespan (1974), which starred Klaus Kinski, and Vicious Circles (1997), which starred Ben Gazzara. He acted in a number of films including The American Friend (1977), Broken English (1981) and The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005). Whitelaw began to work as a subtitler in the 1970s in Paris. It was the producer Pierre Cottrell who suggested that he subtitle Jean Eustache's film Mes petites amoureuses. He continued to work as a subtitler for four decades. Whitelaw provided English subtitles for more than 1,000 films over a period of several decades. He once called it "like getting paid to do crosswords". One of the more challenging jobs he took on was the subtitling, with Stephen O'Shea, of Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine. Their subtitles for this film received considerable critical attention. Source: Article "Sandy Whitelaw" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

The Sorceror's Apprentice

Mylène Farmer: Pourvu qu'elles soient douces (Libertine II)

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

The American Friend

Notorious Nobodies

The Night of the Iguana

Beau Pere

Broken English

Music Videos

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Robert et Robert

Taras Bulba

All Fired Up

Kings of the Sun

Lady Oscar

Enigma

In a Rush

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)

Lifespan

Vicious Circles

Like a Turtle on Its Back

I Could Be Your Grandmother