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Sir Michael Balcon talks to Robert Robinson about his 42 years as a producer in the film industry. Balcon was the famous as producer of more than 300 films and as the mastermind behind the Ealing ...
Michael Balcon was a British film producer and studio executive who was a major figure in the history of British cinema. He was the head of production at Gaumont British from 1927 to 1936, and then the head of production at Ealing Studios from 1938 to 1959.
Clynton, Lionel, "Michael Balcon of Ealing," in British Film Year-book 1947–8 , edited by Peter Noble, London, 1947. Dickinson, Thorold, "The Work of Sir Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios," in The Year's Work in the Film 1950 , edited by Roger Manvell, London, 1951.
Frend, 1948). 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. Sir Michael Elias Balcon (n. 19 mai 1896, Birmingham, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 17 octombrie 1977, Hartfield (d), Wealden, Anglia, Regatul Unit) a fost un producător de film englez cunoscut pentru conducerea studioului Ealing din vestul Londrei din 1938 până în 1955. Sub conducerea sa, studioul a ...
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.
A photograph of Sir Michael Balcon in the 1930s. Text about Sir Michael Balcon. The text reads: Sir Michael Balcon was born in Birmingham in 1896 and began his career in film-making as a distributor. He moved into production with the film Woman to Woman in the early 1920s and was responsible for launching the career of Alfred Hitchcock.
