Ellen Pollock

Ellen Pollock

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)

  • Title: Ellen Pollock
  • Popularity: 0.678
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1903-07-29
  • Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Also Known As: Ellen Clara Pollock
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Ellen Pollock Movies

  • 1973
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    Horror Hospital

    Horror Hospital

    5.2 1973 HD

    Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the...

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  • 1965
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    Rapture

    Rapture

    6.9 1965 HD

    Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph...

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  • 1961
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    So Evil, So Young

    So Evil, So Young

    4 1961 HD

    A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

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  • 1951
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    To Have and to Hold

    To Have and to Hold

    3.5 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1928
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    Moulin Rouge

    Moulin Rouge

    6.2 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Finders Keepers

    Finders Keepers

    5.5 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    The Street Singer

    The Street Singer

    1 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    Millions

    Millions

    4.5 1937 HD

    Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.

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  • 1937
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    Splinters in the Air

    Splinters in the Air

    1 1937 HD

    An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.

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  • 1955
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    The Time of His Life

    The Time of His Life

    6.5 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    The Hypnotist

    The Hypnotist

    5.3 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Kiss the Bride Goodbye

    Kiss the Bride Goodbye

    5.1 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    The Fake

    The Fake

    5.6 1953 HD

    Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's...

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  • 1939
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    Sons of the Sea

    Sons of the Sea

    6.8 1939 HD

    The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended...

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  • 1940
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    Spare a Copper

    Spare a Copper

    7 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    Night Birds

    Night Birds

    2 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Something in the City

    Something in the City

    5.7 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    Heads We Go

    Heads We Go

    1 1933 HD

    A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.

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  • 1937
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    Aren't Men Beasts!

    Aren't Men Beasts!

    1 1937 HD

    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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  • 1929
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    Piccadilly

    Piccadilly

    6.4 1929 HD

    A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

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  • 1935
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    It's a Bet

    It's a Bet

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    The Last Coupon

    The Last Coupon

    1 1932 HD

    A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

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  • 1930
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    Too Many Crooks

    Too Many Crooks

    1 1930 HD

    A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

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  • 1931
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    My Wife's Family

    My Wife's Family

    1 1931 HD

    Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he...

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  • 1936
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    The Happy Family

    The Happy Family

    1 1936 HD

    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.

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  • 1929
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    The Informer

    The Informer

    6.3 1929 HD

    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.

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  • 1949
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    Warning to Wantons

    Warning to Wantons

    6 1949 HD

    Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the...

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  • 1946
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    Bedelia

    Bedelia

    5.2 1946 HD

    Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney,...

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  • 1966
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    Who Killed the Cat?

    Who Killed the Cat?

    7 1966 HD

    A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.

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  • 1937
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    Non-Stop New York

    Non-Stop New York

    6.3 1937 HD

    A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

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  • 1945
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    Don Chicago

    Don Chicago

    4 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    The First Mrs Fraser

    The First Mrs Fraser

    1 1932 HD

    'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)

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  • 1951
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    The Galloping Major

    The Galloping Major

    6 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Master Spy

    Master Spy

    6 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Ooh La La!

    Ooh La La!

    1 1968 HD

    Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken...

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