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1896 - 1977 (81 years)
Has no ancestors but 5 descendants in this family tree.
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Michael Balcon, b. 19 May 1896, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Married |
1924 |
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Michael Balcon, b. 19 May 1896, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Mother |
Aileen Leatherman |
Married |
1924 |
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Cecil Day-Lewis |
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Name |
Michael Balcon |
Birth |
19 May 1896 |
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
17 Oct 1977 |
Hartfield, East Sussex, England |
Person ID |
I373563 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
7 Apr 2002 |
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Notes |
- head of the famous Ealing Studios
started in films a s a distributor, then a producer from the early 1920s, helping to launch the career of Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1930s Balcon was prominent in building up a huge annual production programme of films for both Gainsborough and Gaumont-British. Head of MGM-British, 1936-38, then in charge of production at Ealing. Knighted in 1948. After Ealing, produced some films independently ('Sammy Going South', 1962), and helped form Bryanston Films, a group of independent film makers including several ex- Ealing colleagues such as Basil Dearden and Michael Relph. After a frustrating period as Chairman of British Lion (1964-68), in which he found it impossible to fulfill his commitment to support a continuity of indigenous production, he became Chairman of the British Institute's Experimental Film Fund before retiring in 1972.
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