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
in 1948. After Ealing, produced some films independently
(
A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963)), 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.
Tom Jones(1963)
Jungle Fighters(1961)
The Scapegoat(1959)
Four Desperate Men(1959)
Nowhere to Go(1958)
Yellow Caesar(1941)
The Wrecker(1929)
The Return of the Rat(1929)
Easy Virtue(1928)
The Constant Nymph(1928)
Downhill(1927)
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran(1978)as Self
Tuesday's Documentary(1968)as Self
Late Night Line-Up(1964)as Self
This Is Your Life(1955)as Self
Daniel Day Lewis - The Heir(2021)as Self
Richard E. Grant on Ealing Comedies(2016)as Self
Fifties British War Films: Days of Glory(2013)as Self
British Film Forever(2007)as Self