Waterloo Station

Back in 1959, Gary Cooper arrived at the Waterloo Station to attend the naval hearing in courtroom drama The Wreck of the Mary Deare, and caught a black cab at the station’s grand entrance. Two years later, John Schlesinger’s career was launched with the half-hour documentary Terminus, which charts a day in the life of the station.

In 1966, Gregory Peck arrived at Waterloo to discover he was wanted for murder, for Stanley Donen’s comedy thriller Arabesque.

The station had previously been mocked up in the studio, in Hollywood for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film Foreign Correspondent, when reporter Joel McCrea is met on his arrival in London; and for the 1944 melodrama Waterloo Road, though scenes for the latter were filmed in the area.

The Waterloo & City Line platform of Waterloo Underground Station is where Gwyneth Paltrow misses/catches the train in the alternative realities of Sliding Doors.

Waterloo’s real moment of cinematic stardom came with The Bourne Ultimatum, as Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) tries to guide Guardian journalist Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) through the station’s bustling concourse.

Waterloo Station

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, dir: Paul Greengrass)
The Wreck Of The Mary Deare (1959, dir: Michael Anderson)
Arabesque (1966, dir: Stanley Donen)
Foreign Correspondent (1940, dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
Waterloo Road (1945, dir: Sidney Gilliatt)
Sliding Doors (1998, dir: Peter Howitt)