Ellen Pollock
Acting
Born 1903-07-29
Died 1997-03-29
Heidelberg, Germany
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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. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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Filmography
Acting
44 credits
The Forsyte Saga
Richard the Lionheart
Ooh La La!
Cousin Bette
The Wicked Lady
The Old Men at the Zoo
Florence Nightingale
My Wife's Family
Piccadilly
Horror Hospital
Bedelia
Chéri
So Evil, So Young
Rapture
The Galloping Major
Non-Stop New York
The Fake
The Long Knife
The Time of His Life
Master Spy
Moulin Rouge
The Informer
Finders Keepers
The Golden Link
Heads We Go
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Something in the City
Who Killed the Cat?
Splinters in the Air
Sons of the Sea
Spare a Copper
The Happy Family
Aren't Men Beasts!
Don Chicago
The Hypnotist
To Have and to Hold
It's a Bet
Warning to Wantons
The First Mrs Fraser
Mrs. Wickens in the Fall
Night Birds
Too Many Crooks
Millions
The Street Singer
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