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Michael Balcon. (1896-1977), Film producer. Sir Michael Balcon. Sitter in 37 portraits. Film producer. Through Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont-British and Ealing Studios Balcon was responsible for a wide range of classic British films including The 39 Steps (1935), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Cruel Sea ...
This portrait back to top. This bust of the film producer Michael Balcon was commissioned by Alfred Hitchcock to salve his guilt over an advantageous deal. Hitchcock paid £250 for the rights to a script that Balcon was also interested in and sold them on to Balcon for £500.
The Ealing vein was played out by the later 1950s, but it is a major achievement. In 1959 he formed Bryanston Films, and in 1964, amid much controversy, took control of British Lion. He was knighted in 1948. Jill Balcon, the actress, is his daughter, and S. Chandos Balcon was his brother. Autobiography: A Lifetime in Films (1969)
Michael Balcon was the son of Louis Balcon, of South Africa and Birmingham, and he was born in Birmingham on May 19, 1896. He was educated at George Dixon's Grammar School in the town, and his early interests were for games, school theatricals, and the laboured flickering of the early silent films. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he trained ...
Michael Balcon. Producer: The Ladykillers. Michael Balcon started in films as 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 ...
Dunkirk (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Under Orders Now Now in Sheerness, Kent, having sailed their commandeered boats from London, journalist Foreman (Bernard Lee) realizes British forces in France are being routed, tells the naval officer (Michael Gwynn) he’s willing to sail across himself, inspiring young Frankie (Sean Barrett) and previously timid Holden (Richard Attenborough) to ...
Sir Michael Elias Balcon-He was an English film producer, known for his work with Ealing Studios. Balcon had earlier worked for Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British and MGM-British. Born in Birmingham, Balcon was the youngest son and fourth of five children of Louis Balcon (c.1858–1946) and his wife, Laura (née Greenberg; c.1863–1934), Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who had met ...
