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Michael Balcon

Michael Balcon

Male 1896 - 1977  (81 years)    Has no ancestors but 5 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Michael Balcon 
    Birth 19 May 1896  Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 17 Oct 1977  Hartfield, East Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I373563  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2002 

    Family Aileen Leatherman 
    Marriage 1924 
    Children 
    +1. Living
    Family ID F148215  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    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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