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Michael Balcon
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Biography
Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer, known for his work with Ealing Studios. Balcon had earlier worked for Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British and MGM-British.
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The 39 Steps
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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The Ladykillers
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The Lavender Hill Mob
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Dead of Night
Producer
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Producer
Secret Agent
Producer
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The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
The Heist Film Slips Its Own Cuffs
Seven robberies that treat the job as a pretext: for politics, for grief, for a formal joke. The loot matters less than what the filmmakers smuggle out alongsid...
7 films
Second Chances
From Hitchcock to Mann, a journey through films where directors revisit their own earlier work, refining obsession into art.
8 films
Love in the Time of Espionage
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
7 films
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The Ladykillers
1955
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953
The Man in the White Suit
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
The Blue Lamp
1950
Passport to Pimlico
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Whisky Galore!
1949
Scott of the Antarctic
1948
It Always Rains on Sunday
1947
Hue and Cry
1947
Dead of Night
1945
Champagne Charlie
1944
The Halfway House
1944
Went the Day Well?
1942
Sabotage
1937
Secret Agent
1936
The 39 Steps
1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927