Michael Balcon est un producteur de cinéma britannique, né le à Birmingham et mort le à Hartfield.
Biographie
Michael Balcon est notamment connu pour avoir été le producteur des premiers films d'Alfred Hitchcock.
Sa fille est l'actrice Jill Balcon, qui a épousé le poète Cecil Day-Lewis. Ils ont eu pour fils l'acteur Daniel Day-Lewis, petit-fils de Michael Balcon. Son épouse est décédée en 1988.
Filmographie
Années 1920
- 1923: La Danseuse blessée (Woman to Woman), de Graham Cutts
- 1923: L'Ombre blanche (The White Shadow), de Graham Cutts
- 1924: The Prude's Fall, de Graham Cutts
- 1924: Abnégation (The Passionate Adventure), de Graham Cutts
- 1925: A Typical Budget
- 1925: So This Is Jollygood
- 1925: The Rat
- 1925: Cut It Out
- 1925: The Blunderland of Big Game
- 1925: Battling Bruisers
- 1925: Le Voyou (Die Prinzessin und der Geiger), de Graham Cutts
- 1925: Le Jardin du plaisir (The Pleasure Garden)
- 1926: The Sea Urchin
- 1926: The Mountain Eagle
- 1926: The Triumph of the Rat
- 1927: Les Cheveux d'or (The Lodger)
- 1927: Après la guerre (Blighty) d'Adrian Brunel
- 1927: The Queen Was in the Parlour
- 1927: Downhill
- 1927: Der Geisterzug
- 1927: One of the Best
- 1928: The Light Woman
- 1928: The Constant Nymph
- 1928: Le passé ne meurt pas (Easy Virtue)
- 1928: The Vortex
- 1928: The Rolling Road
- 1928: Balaclava
- 1928: The First Born
- 1929: The Return of the Rat
- 1929: Just for a Song
- 1929: The Crooked Billet
- 1929: Taxi for Two
- 1929: City of Play
Années 1930
- 1930: A Warm Corner
- 1930: The Walsh Brothers
- 1930: The Volga Singers
- 1930: Toyland
- 1930: Third Time Lucky
- 1930: Pete Mandell and His Rhythm Masters No. 2
- 1930: Pete Mandell and His Rhythm Masters No. 1
- 1930: Martini and His Band No. 2
- 1930: Martini and His Band No. 1
- 1930: Lewis Hardcastle's Dusky Syncopaters
- 1930: Hal Swain and His Sax-O-Five
- 1930: Gypsy Land
- 1930: George Mozart in Domestic Troubles
- 1930: Ena Reiss
- 1930: Elsie Percival and Ray Raymond
- 1930: Dusky Melodies
- 1930: Dick Henderson
- 1930: Classic v Jazz
- 1930: The Blue Boys No. 2
- 1930: The Blue Boys No. 1
- 1930: Black and White
- 1930: Billie Barnes
- 1930: Ashes
- 1930: Al Fresco
- 1930: Symphony in Two Flats
- 1931: Who Killed Doc Robin?
- 1931: Wee Hoose Among the Heather
- 1931: Tobermory
- 1931: The Stronger Sex
- 1931: Somebody's Waiting for Me
- 1931: She Is Ma Daisy
- 1931: The Saftest of the Family
- 1931: Roaming in the Gloaming
- 1931: Nanny
- 1931: I Love to Be a Sailor
- 1931: I Love a Lassie
- 1931: Hot Heir
- 1931: Bull Rushes
- 1931: The Ringer
- 1931: Aroma of the South Seas
- 1931: Night in Montmartre
- 1931: The Man They Couldn't Arrest
- 1931: The Ghost Train
- 1931: Hindle Wakes
- 1931: Michael and Mary
- 1931: Dr. Josser, K.C.
- 1931: Sunshine Susie
- 1931: A Gentleman of Paris (en)
- 1932: The Midshipmaid
- 1932: Marry Me
- 1932: Love on Wheels
- 1932: Lord Babs
- 1932: The Frightened Lady
- 1932: Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
- 1932: White Face
- 1932: The Faithful Heart
- 1932: Jack's the Boy
- 1932: There Goes the Bride
- 1932: Rome Express
- 1932: After the Ball
- 1933: Orders Is Orders
- 1933: The Man from Toronto
- 1933: Leave It to Smith
- 1933: It's a Boy
- 1933: Britannia of Billingsgate
- 1933: The Good Companions
- 1933: Sleeping Car
- 1933: Le Fantôme vivant (The Ghoul)
- 1933: J'étais une espionne (I Was a Spy)
- 1933: Turkey Time
- 1933: The Constant Nymph
- 1934: Wild Boy
- 1934: L'Homme qui en savait trop (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
- 1934: Le Clairvoyant (The Clairvoyant)
- 1934: Jack Ahoy
- 1934: Princess Charming (en)
- 1934: L'Homme d'Aran (Man of Aran)
- 1934: Toujours vingt ans (Evergreen) de Victor Saville
- 1934: Soldiers of the King
- 1934: A Cup of Kindness
- 1934: Chu-Chin-Chow
- 1934: Red Ensign
- 1934: My Song for You
- 1934: Le Juif Süss (Jew Süss) de Lothar Mendes
- 1934: The Camels Are Coming
- 1934: The Iron Duke
- 1935: Things Are Looking Up
- 1935: Oh, Daddy! de Graham Cutts et Austin Melford
- 1935: Lady in Danger
- 1935: The Guv'nor
- 1935: Foreign Affaires
- 1935: Car of Dreams
- 1935: Bulldog Jack
- 1935: Brown on Resolution
- 1935: Les 39 marches (The 39 Steps)
- 1935: Me and Marlborough
- 1935: The Tunnel (en)
- 1935: First a Girl
- 1935: King of the Damned
- 1936: Rhythm in the Air
- 1936: All In
- 1936: The First Offence
- 1936: Marie Tudor (Tudor Rose)
- 1936: Pot Luck
- 1936: Quatre de l'espionnage (Secret Agent)
- 1936: Where There's a Will (film, 1936) (en)
- 1936: Cerveaux de rechange (The Man Who Changed His Mind)
- 1936: Everybody Dance
- 1936: Agent secret (Sabotage)
- 1936: Jack of All Trades
- 1936: Windbag the Sailor
- 1937: Take My Tip
- 1937: Doctor Syn
- 1938: Sailing Along
- 1938: Vive les étudiants (A Yank at Oxford) de Jack Conway
- 1938: The Gaunt Stranger
- 1938: La Grande Escalade (Climbing High) de Carol Reed
- 1938: The Ware Case
- 1939: Happy Families
- 1939: Let's Be Famous
- 1939: There Ain't No Justice de Pen Tennyson (en)
Années 1940
- 1940: Dangerous Comment
- 1940: All Hands
- 1940: The Big Blockade de Charles Frend
- 1940: Now You're Talking
- 1940: The Proud Valley (en)
- 1940: Georges se débrouille (Let George Do It!) de Marcel Varnel
- 1940: Convoy
- 1940: Sailors Three
- 1941: The Ghost of St. Michael's de Marcel Varnel
- 1942: Go to Blazes
- 1942: Ships with Wings
- 1942: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
- 1942: The Next of Kin
- 1942: The Foreman Went to France
- 1942: The Goose Steps Out
- 1942: Went the Day Well?
- 1943: Nine Men
- 1943: The Bells Go Down
- 1943: Undercover
- 1943: My Learned Friend
- 1943: Le Navire en feu (San Demetrio London)
- 1944: L'Auberge fantôme (The Halfway House) de Basil Dearden
- 1944: For Those in Peril
- 1944: Fiddlers Three
- 1944: Champagne Charlie
- 1945: The Return of the Vikings
- 1945: Painted Boats
- 1945: Au cœur de la nuit (Dead of Night)
- 1945: Johnny Frenchman
- 1946: Pink String and Sealing Wax
- 1946: J'étais un prisonnier (The Captive Heart)
- 1946: La route est ouverte (The Overlanders) de Harry Watt
- 1947: À cor et à cri (Hue and Cry)
- 1947: Nicholas Nickleby (en)
- 1947: Les Amours de Joanna Godden (The Loves of Joanna Godden), de Charles Frend
- 1947: Frieda
- 1947: Il pleut toujours le dimanche (It Always Rains on Sunday)
- 1948: Les Guerriers dans l'ombre (Against the Wind)
- 1948: Sarabande (Saraband for Dead Lovers)
- 1948: Another Shore
- 1948: L'Épopée du capitaine Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) de Charles Frend
- 1949: Passeport pour Pimlico (Passport to Pimlico)
- 1949: Noblesse oblige (Kind Hearts and Coronets)
- 1949: Whisky Galore!
- 1949: Le Train du destin (Train of Events) de Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton et Basil Dearden
- 1949: A Run for Your Money
Années 1950 et après
- 1950: La Lampe bleue (The Blue Lamp)
- 1950: Bitter Springs
- 1950: La Cage d'or (Cage of Gold)
- 1950: L'Aimant (The Magnet)
- 1951: Les Trafiquants du Dunbar (Pool of London)
- 1951: De l'or en barres (The Lavender Hill Mob) de Charles Crichton
- 1951: L'Homme au complet blanc (The Man in the White Suit)
- 1951: Quand les vautours ne volent plus (Where No Vultures Fly)
- 1952: La Merveilleuse Histoire de Mandy (Mandy)
- 1953: La Mer cruelle (The Cruel Sea)
- 1953: The Titfield Thunderbolt
- 1953: The Square Ring
- 1953: ''Meet Mr. Lucifer
- 1954: La Loterie de l'amour (The Love Lottery)
- 1954: The Maggie
- 1954: Lease of Life
- 1954: Les hommes ne comprendront jamais (The Divided Heart)
- 1955: Out of the Clouds
- 1955: La Nuit où mon destin s'est joué (The Night My Number Came Up)
- 1955: Tueurs de dames (The Ladykillers)
- 1956: Un détective très privé
- 1956: The Feminine Touch
- 1956: S.O.S Scotland Yard (The Long Arm)
- 1957: Flammes dans le ciel (The Man in the Sky)
- 1957: The Shiralee
- 1957: Il était un petit navire (Barnacle Bill)
- 1958: Dunkerque (Dunkirk)
- 1958: Le Criminel aux abois (Nowhere to Go) de Seth Holt et Basil Dearden
- 1959: L'Île des réprouvés (The Siege of Pinchgut)
- 1959: Le Bouc émissaire (The Scapegoat)
- 1961: La Patrouille égarée (The Long and the Short and the Tall)
- 1963: Tom Jones: de l'alcôve à la potence (Tom Jones) de Tony Richardson
Distinctions
- Chevalier commandeur de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique, Royaume-Uni (1948)
