The simmering feud started 25 years ago with a seemingly innocuous letter sent by Richard Attenborough, the actor and director, to the family of Sir Michael Balcon, one of the greatest producers in ...

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 ...

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BIRMINGHAM’S first digital festival will close tomorrow night with Into the Light, a tribute to one of the city’s most famous sons from the world of film. Sir Michael Balcon (1896-1977) was the former ...

Producer Michael Balcon sent director Harry Watt to Australia with a mandate to make a picture representative of that continent. Watt spent five months soaking up the atmosphere. In the Federal Food ...

Influential production executive who gave Alfred Hitchcock his first solo directing job ("The Pleasure Garden" 1925) and later founded Gainsborough Pictures, which produced many of Hitchcock's early ...

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