Omen, The (1976)

Date: 1976
Director: Richard Donner
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton
Location(s): Basilicata and Lazio (Italy), Berkshire, London, Surrey, Jerusalem (Israel)

Region(s): , , ,

Storyline:

Robert Thorn, American Ambassador to London, finds out that his wife has had a still birth and is persuaded to switch babies. He later finds out that the adopted son he has been bringing up is in fact the Antichrist. JT

Additional Information:

Originally loaded by John Tunstill and updated with new grabs by Dave Wilson and additional comments.

But it may need a few more stills as Darren Ó Conbhuí Ward, on a winter’s day, watched the filming of the scene of Remick’s character falling from a hospital window onto an ambulance roof at Ascot Racecourse, the rear of the Grandstand. The old mid-century modernist Grandstand, the Queen Elizabeth II Stand, has since been knocked down and replaced with a new building. While the interiors were filmed at that old favourite Northwick Hospital on the top floor, the pillars and base give away the exterior of Ascot. All researched by Darren.

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  • Capture 1
  • 01 Nov 2018

Looking up at Via Dora, Rome, Italy

Off angle. SJ

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  • 27 Sep 2021

The Fontana delle Rane in the Piazza Mincio, Rome, Italy

This is opposite the corner seen in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. With thanks to Lorenzo who pointed out that my photo posted 1 Nov 2018 was the wrong corner. Fortunately, I also took one of this corner which shows the left side of the original capture. SJ

  • Capture 3
  • 11 Mar 2016

Great George Street, Westminster, London, SW1P

A really good collection of road clutter! SJ

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  • 'Now' required

Pyrford Court, Ripley in Surrey. Also seen in 'Tales from the Crypt', 'Sky Pirates', 'Endless Game', 'The Mind of Mr. Soames' and 'The Cat and the Canary' (1978)

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Pyrford Court. The ambassador arrives to take up his post to the Court of St. James - but eschews Winfield House in Regent's Park for further out of town.

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Pyrford Court. Peck joins to console Remick and Stephens after the suicide of Damien's initial nanny.

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  • 21 Feb 2016

Grosvenor Square, London W1K

Looking east. SJ

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  • 21 Feb 2016

U.S. Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London W1A. The Embassy was also seen in 'Not with My Wife, You Don't!', 'The Statue', 'Subterfuge' and 'Children of the Damned.'

Not quite the correct angle but the trees obscure better shots of the building, even in winter. SJ

  • Capture 9
  • 03 Jun 2013

Stephens/Damien feels uneasy as he approaches Guildford Cathedral (spotted by Andrew Jupp)

Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey. SJ

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  • 30 Jan 2017

Approaching the cathedral.

The cathedral is currently undergoing extensive restoration work. SD

  • Capture 11
  • 03 Jun 2013

As Stephens claws Remick's face, Peck realises he has to call off his attendance at the wedding.

Now by SJ.

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Windsor Safari Park in Berkshire, prior to another demonic encounter with baboons.

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An additional grab sent in by Ken Parker who notes that these are from his late father's firm Parker's Coaches (Kingsbury Ltd.) based in Willesden and trading until 2000.

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  • 01 Feb 2021

Pyrford Court, Ripley, Surrey

Steve Platt provides this comparison view showing only a few changes at the location.

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  • 11 Jul 2023

The Home Park, Windsor Castle (in the background), Windsor, SL4

No games here today. (SR)

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  • 21 Feb 2016

Peck agrees to a meeting with the priest Troughton at Bishop's Park SW6.

The now shows the vegetation across the river in Putney and Barnes, SW15, has not changed much. SJ

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  • 10 May 2011

Peck issues a stern warning to Troughton to stay away from his family, despite the strangeness of his "son". Bishop's Park also features in 'The Optimists of Nine Elms'.

The same place now, captured by SJ.

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  • 10 May 2011

Troughton feels a demonic wind in the air after an unsuccessful warning to Peck.

I always wondered why cinema benches like to face away from the Thames! SJ

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  • 25 Feb 2011

All Saints' Church, Putney Bridge Approach, Fulham, London SW6, from Bishop's Park.

All Saints' Church, Putney Bridge Approach, Fulham, London SW. Identified by Simon James in his new (now a little older!) London Location book.

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  • 25 Feb 2011

Troughton approaches the church in hope of sanctuary.

JT?

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  • 10 May 2011

All Saint's Church.

No cross, somewhat a clumsy prop. SJ

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  • 25 Feb 2011

Troughton is impaled as Warner's photograph anticipated, and suddenly the wind dies down and the sun comes out.

Now. And Gun of the Black Sun used the same churchyard. JT?

  • Capture 23
  • 01 Nov 2018

Via XXIV Maggio, looking towards the Obelisco del Quirinale monument on the Piazza del Quirinale, Roma, Italy, seen as Peck and Warner go in search for the real parents.

I should have moved further up the hill but it was hot and steep. Shocking sloth. SJ

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  • 22 Feb 2016

Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Lazio

Without so much traffic. (RL)

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The Exterior of the Ministry of Education, 20 Piazza John Kennedy, Roma 00144, found by Dave Wilson, who notes that the cut from the previous shot in a supposed reverse pov is 6 miles away!

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  • 30 Mar 2016

Last shot to be identified and it's Dave Wilson again. Strada Provinciale 3/e Ardeatina, 790-798, Roma.

A google shot supplied by Dave to support as well as a couple of others in this scene's pan. (SJ)

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  • 04 Nov 2018

Peck and Warner feel the hunt getting warmer. Exactly the same shot seen without Peck and Warner and with the subtitle Subiaco in Omen III.

A nice match sent in Manuel G, who adds, "The Monastery of San Benedetto, in which Father Spiletto (Martin Benson) retired, does really exist near Subiaco, 50 km east of Rome. But in reality this shot here shows the Abbey of San Sebastiano, located in Via dell'Abbadia in Alatri (Frosinone).

  • Capture 28
  • 16 Oct 2021

St. Peter's church on Laleham Road in Staines, Surrey. Recognised by Nick Boorman, long before we added this capture.

Nick Boorman was tempted to take a night shot but the detail in daylight is much clearer.

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  • 18 Oct 2019

Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Dawney Hill, Pirbright, Woking in Surrey.

Andrew Jupp provides us with a clear view of the same scene now. (RL)