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Ellen Pollock (29 June 1902 – 29 March 1997) was a British character actress, mainly appeared on stage in London's West End. She also appeared in several films and TV productions.
A devotee of Bernard Shaw, she was president of the Shaw Society from 1949. In their obituary, the Independent wrote "Pollock is believed to have played, in a career spanning 72 years, more Shavian heroines than anyone else. She directed London seasons of his plays; and it was during the London premiere of one of his lesser-known works – Farfetched Fables (Watergate, 1950) – that she announced Shaw's death from the stage."
Pollock's dedication to acting began as a seven-year-old, when she saw Sarah Bernhardt on stage; she knew then that she wanted to be an actress herself. Pollock was also a theatre director and a teacher of drama at RADA and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art; and her varied television work included several appearances in The Forsyte Saga for the BBC.
She outlived both husbands, Captain Leslie Hancock and the artist James Proudfoot. She had one child with Captain Hancock. Pollock was the subject of TV's This Is Your Life in 1992.
Ellen Pollock's mother, Hedwig Kahn, was the sister of Otto Hermann Kahn (wealthy investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts) and composer Robert Kahn. ()
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28 July 1933
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
01 January 1955
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner.
29 July 1957
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
25 September 1953
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries.
01 January 1937
An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.
28 January 1945
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes.
06 August 1945
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America.
16 October 1929
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
04 January 1949
Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society.
08 December 1966
Cliff Richard and the Shadows arrive in a small Spanish town for a concert when a U.S. plane accidentally drops a mini-bomb on it.
19 January 1937
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
07 October 1966
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
02 December 1940
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules.
21 April 1983
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills.
01 March 1951
A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man.
01 February 1935
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
01 August 1930
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
01 September 1950
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
23 August 1965
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France.
18 April 1932
'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)
01 February 1929
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
01 March 1937
Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume.
13 September 1937
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
03 June 1931
Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.
11 May 1973
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr.
21 March 1928
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him.
08 July 1946
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington.
01 January 1961
A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
21 July 1932
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
16 October 1930
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy.
01 January 1936
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
07 May 1951
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
19 August 1964
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British.
23 December 1939
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target.
21 September 1937
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
13 September 1954
What initially looked like a young woman's suicide, turns into a murder investigation and Supt. Blake has two suspects - the victim's husband and his own daughter.
01 August 1958
Young nurse Jill Holden gets involved with an extortion gang targeting Mrs Cheam, one of her patients.
