Ellen Pollock
Also Known As: Ellen Clara Pollock
Biography: 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)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Germany
Birthday: July 29, 1903
Deathday: March 29, 1997
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Gender: Female
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Horror Hospital
Overview: 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. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Rapture
Overview: Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-23
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So Evil, So Young
Overview: A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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To Have and to Hold
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: 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. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-21
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Finders Keepers
Overview: 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. The Shadows look for the bomb to return it.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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The Street Singer
Overview: 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. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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Millions
Overview: Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-21
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Splinters in the Air
Overview: An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Time of His Life
Overview: 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. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Hypnotist
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-29
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Overview: Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-28
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The Fake
Overview: Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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Sons of the Sea
Overview: The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-23
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Spare a Copper
Overview: 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. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-02
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Night Birds
Overview: Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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Something in the City
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Heads We Go
Overview: A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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Aren't Men Beasts!
Overview: 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!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-19
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Piccadilly
Overview: A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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It's a Bet
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The Last Coupon
Overview: A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-21
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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My Wife's Family
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-03
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The Happy Family
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Informer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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Warning to Wantons
Overview: 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. Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fight
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-04
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Bedelia
Overview: Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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Who Killed the Cat?
Overview: A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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Non-Stop New York
Overview: A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-13
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Don Chicago
Overview: Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-06
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The First Mrs Fraser
Overview: 'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-18
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The Galloping Major
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-07
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Master Spy
Overview: 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. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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The Wicked Lady
Overview: 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. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-21
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