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Born at Edgbaston, 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), Lithuanian Jewish immigrants from Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire) who had met in Britain.
Born in Birmingham, Balcon was the youngest son and fourth of five children of Louis Balcon (c.1858–1946) and his wife, Laura Greenberg (c.1863–1934), Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who had met in England.
Balcon was born in Westminster, London, the daughter of Aileen Freda Leatherman (1904–1988) and her husband Michael Balcon. Her family was Jewish, with 19th-century Lithuanian Jewish immigrant ancestors from what is now Latvia on her father's side and Poland on her mother's. Balcon attended Roedean School.
When Famous Players-Lasky folded, Hitchcock fell in with a group of young filmmakers at Islington, led by the producer Michael Balcon, the son of East European Jewish emigres. In 1924, Balcon recruited Hitchcock to work for his new production company, Gainsborough Pictures.
“Jew Suss,” the 1934 film which was later turned into an anti-Semitic propaganda film by the Nazis, was produced by one of Britain’s greatest film names, Michael Balcon, who was Jewish.
Sir Michael Balcon (right) has a pub named after him in Ealing. Kenneth Cope, now 86, later found fame playing Marty Hopkirk in the ITV series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), but he says that ...
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), Lithuanian Jewish immigrants from Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire) who had met in Britain.
