Ellen Pollock

Born: 1903-07-29

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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Piccadilly

as Vamp (uncredited)
Released: 1929-02-01

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to...

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Horror Hospital

as Olga ("Aunt Harris")
Released: 1973-05-11

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Rapture

as Landlady
Released: 1965-08-23

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who...

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Moulin Rouge

as Girl
Released: 1928-03-21

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her...

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The Fake

as Miss Fossett
Released: 1953-09-25

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them...

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Bedelia

as McKelvey's Housekeeper
Released: 1946-07-08

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie...

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Night Birds

as Flossie
Released: 1930-10-16

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of...

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The Informer

as Prostitute
Released: 1929-10-16

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is...

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Who Killed the Cat?

as Ruth Prendergast
Released: 1966-10-07

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

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Something in the City

as Mrs. Holley
Released: 1950-09-01

A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day...

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye

as Gladys Dodd
Released: 1945-01-28

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys...

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Heads We Go

as Madame
Released: 1933-07-28

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

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Finders Keepers

as Grandma
Released: 1966-12-08

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The Hypnotist

as Miss Barbara Barton
Released: 1957-07-29

Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot,...

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The Time of His Life

as Lady Florence
Released: 1955-01-01

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for...

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Sons of the Sea

as Margaret Hulls
Released: 1939-12-23

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Spare a Copper

as Lady Hardstaff
Released: 1940-12-02

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of...

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It's a Bet

as Mrs. Joe
Released: 1935-02-01

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month....

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So Evil, So Young

as Miss Smith
Released: 1961-01-01

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

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To Have and to Hold

as Roberta
Released: 1951-03-01

A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon...

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Non-Stop New York

as Miss Harvey
Released: 1937-09-13

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight...

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The Street Singer

as Gloria Weston
Released: 1937-03-01

Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer...

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Warning to Wantons

as Baroness de Jammes
Released: 1949-01-04

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star...

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Aren't Men Beasts!

as The Vamp
Released: 1937-01-19

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a...

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Too Many Crooks

as The Other Girl
Released: 1930-08-01

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

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