Michael Balcon
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- born: 19/May/1896 (Birmingham, England, UK)
- died: 17/Oct/1977 (Hartfield, East Sussex, England, UK)
Biography
Sir Michael Balcon was a British film producer, best known for his work with the Ealing Studios.
Born in Birmingham, he began his career in filmmaking during the 1920s, producing his first film, "Woman to Woman" (starring Clive Brook) in 1923, and began working at Ealing in the early 1940s.
He worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Basil Dearden, Michael Relph, and many other British greats of the film world. He was made a Knight of the British Empire in 1948. The last film on which he worked as executive producer was "Tom Jones" (1963).
His daughter Jill Balcon became an actress, his son-in-law Cecil Day-Lewis was an Irish-born Poet Laureate, and his grandson is the successful Oscar-winning Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- Woman to Woman (1923) - producer
- The White Shadow (1923) - producer
- The Prude's Fall (1924) - producer
- The Passionate Adventure (1924) - producer
- The Pleasure Garden (1925) - producer
- Die Prinzessin und der Geiger (1925) - producer
- The Mountain Eagle (1926) - producer
- The Lodger (1927) - producer
- Downhill (1927) - producer
- Easy Virtue (1928) - producer
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - producer (uncredited)
- The 39 Steps (1935) - producer (uncredited)
- Secret Agent (1936) - producer (uncredited)
- Sabotage (1936) - producer (uncredited)
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