Born Birmingham. Film producer. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Went on to run Ealing Studios from 1938-56. His daughter married Cecil Day Lewis. Died East Sussex.
The National Portrait Gallery hold a bust of Balcon by Jacob Epstein, commissioned by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Sir Michael Balcon
Hackney owns up: "The plaque states that 'The Wicked Lady' was filmed at Gain...
City of Westminster Sir Michael Balcon, 1896 - 1977, film maker, lived here, ...
Sir Michael Balcon, 1896 - 1977, film producer, worked here, 1938 - 1956. Eng...
Created the captions on the Hitchcock murals. We think this means that he wrote them, rather than physically made them, and that he was chosen for his film knowledge. But the existence of 'John B...
Film producer. Born Sandor Kellner in Hungary. Worked in film in Hungary, Austria and Germany and then in Hollywood 1926-30. He then moved to Britain where he became a leading figure in the film i...
Actor. Born in Dublin. During WW2 he served in the parachute regiment, and was one of the first to land in Normandy during Operation Overlord. He took up acting after the war, and one of his early ...
Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago. In 1952, while working in the UK, he heard that the House Un-American Activities had black-listed him so he decided to...
Actor. Born Port Talbot, Wales. Spotted by Olivier in 1965 and invited to join the National Theatre as Olivier's understudy.
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