Carol White

Carol White

Born: April 1, 1943
Died: September 16, 1991
in London, England, UK
Carole Joan White (1 April 1943 – 16 September 1991) was an English actress. She achieved a public profile with her performances in the television play Cathy Come Home (1966) and the films Poor Cow (1967) and I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), but alcoholism and drug abuse damaged her career, and from the early 1970s she worked infrequently.

Movies for Carol White...

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Title: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Character: Self (archive Footage)
Released: June 30, 2016
Type: Movie
A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.
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The Limey
Title: The Limey
Character: Wilson's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: Movie
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
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Nutcracker
Title: Nutcracker
Character: Margaux Lasselle
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Joan Collins).
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The Squeeze
Title: The Squeeze
Character: Jill
Released: March 20, 1977
Type: Movie
An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.
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Some Call It Loving
Title: Some Call It Loving
Character: Scarlett
Released: November 16, 1973
Type: Movie
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
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Made
Title: Made
Character: Valerie Marshall
Released: October 1, 1972
Type: Movie
This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people – a local priest and a folk singer – each of whom wants to convert her to his own worldview. An elegy to a younger generation looking for something to believe in, Made co-stars hugely influential folk-rock musician Roy Harper in his screen debut. Produced by Joseph Janni – who previously made the astonishingly successful Poor Cow with White – directed by The Long Good Friday's John Mackenzie and featuring new songs specially composed by Harper.
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Dulcima
Title: Dulcima
Character: Dulcima Gaskain
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place, Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her, and a strange, yet mutually beneficial, relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper, newly arrived on a nearby estate, also catches Dulcima's eye...
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Something Big
Title: Something Big
Character: Dover McBride
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Title: The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Character: Jody Pringle
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Title: Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Character: Cathy Palmer
Released: May 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
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The Fixer
Title: The Fixer
Character: Raisl
Released: December 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Title: I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Character: Georgina Elben
Released: December 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
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Poor Cow
Title: Poor Cow
Character: Joy
Released: December 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
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Slave Girls
Title: Slave Girls
Character: Gido
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari, has vanquished a rival tribe and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A hunter stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the possessive, sadistic Queen.
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Cathy Come Home
Title: Cathy Come Home
Character: Cathy Ward
Released: November 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
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The Coming Out Party
Title: The Coming Out Party
Character: The Princess
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
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Up the Junction
Title: Up the Junction
Character: Sylvie
Released: November 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
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The Playground
Title: The Playground
Character: Virginia Williams
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A religious prostitute who sees an atheist client die after blaspheming believes the next man she runs into is Jesus.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Winifred Norton
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Ladies Who Do
Title: Ladies Who Do
Character: Sandra
Released: November 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
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The Boys
Title: The Boys
Character: Evelyn May
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
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Gaolbreak
Title: Gaolbreak
Character: Carol Marshall
Released: April 2, 1962
Type: Movie
An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.
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A Matter of WHO
Title: A Matter of WHO
Character: Beryl
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
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The Man in the Back Seat
Title: The Man in the Back Seat
Character: Jean
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
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Linda
Title: Linda
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A boy and girl find true love for each other and escape from boredom and crime.
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Beat Girl
Title: Beat Girl
Character: Girl at The Off-Beat Café (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1960
Type: Movie
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
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Never Let Go
Title: Never Let Go
Character: Jackie
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
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Carry On Teacher
Title: Carry On Teacher
Character: Sheila Dale - Saboteur
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Schoolgirl in Assembly Hall (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
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The Golden Disc
Title: The Golden Disc
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop.
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Title: Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Character: Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Circus Friends
Title: Circus Friends
Character: Nan
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
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Now and Forever
Title: Now and Forever
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
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Child in the House
Title: Child in the House
Character: Elizabeth's Friend (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Young Girl (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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My Teenage Daughter
Title: My Teenage Daughter
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
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An Alligator Named Daisy
Title: An Alligator Named Daisy
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
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A Prize of Gold
Title: A Prize of Gold
Character: German Refugee (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
Title: The Belles of St. Trinian's
Character: Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1954
Type: Movie
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1954
Type: Movie
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Title: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Character: Young Sibella (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.