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Ellen Pollock

Ellen Pollock

Actor · 1903 – 1997 · Heidelberg, Germany

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. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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  • Movie4.9

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    1983 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Florence Nightingale

    1985 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.8

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    1937 · 12 votes

  • Movie4.7

    So Evil, So Young

    1961 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.0

    My Wife's Family

    1931 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.0

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    1939 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Kiss the Bride Goodbye

    1945 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Spare a Copper

    1940 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Aren't Men Beasts!

    1937 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Horror Hospital

    1973 · 70 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Finders Keepers

    1966 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Piccadilly

    1929 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Moulin Rouge

    1928 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Bedelia

    1946 · 10 votes

  • Movie4.8

    To Have and to Hold

    1951 · 4 votes

  • Movie9.0

    The Long Knife

    1958 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Who Killed the Cat?

    1966 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Too Many Crooks

    1930 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Informer

    1929 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Fake

    1953 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Something in the City

    1950 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.1

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    1951 · 9 votes

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    1935 · 2 votes

  • Movie8.0

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  • TV9.0

    Richard the Lionheart

    1962 · 1 votes

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    The Forsyte Saga

    1967 · 8 votes

  • TV10.0

    Ooh La La!

    1968 · 1 votes

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    Cousin Bette

    1971 · 4 votes

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    The Old Men at the Zoo

    1983 · 2 votes

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    Chéri

    1973