Michael Balcon

Rouben Mamoulian, Miriam Hopkins, visitor Michael Balcon, and Kenneth Macgowan on the set of Becky Sharp (film) (1935)

Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was a British film producer remembered as the head of Ealing Studios. His daughter, Jill Balcon, married Cecil Day Lewis.

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Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Michael Balcon p. 28

• I always look for people whose ideas coincide with mine, and then I'm ready to give them a chance to make a name for themselves.

• We made films at Ealing that were good, bad and indifferent, but that were indisputably British. They were rooted in the soil of the country.