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Ellen Pollock
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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.…
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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)
Filmography
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1985
Florence Nightingale
Movie Lady Monteagle
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1983
The Old Men at the Zoo
TV show Sophie Englander
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1983
The Wicked Lady
Movie Mrs. Munce
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1973
Horror Hospital
Movie Olga ("Aunt Harris")
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1973
Chéri
TV show Baroness de la Berche
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1971
Cousin Bette
TV show Mme. Nourisson
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1968
Ooh La La!
TV show Mama
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1967
The Forsyte Saga
TV show Madame Lamotte
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1966
Finders Keepers
Movie Grandma
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1966
Who Killed the Cat?
Movie Ruth Prendergast
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1965
Rapture
Movie Landlady
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1964
Master Spy
Movie Dr. Morrell
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1962
Richard the Lionheart
TV show Lady Melinda
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1961
So Evil, So Young
Movie Miss Smith
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1958
The Long Knife
Movie Mrs. Cheam
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1957
Mrs. Wickens in the Fall
Movie Mme Charcot
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1957
The Hypnotist
Movie Miss Barbara Barton
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1955
The Time of His Life
Movie Lady Florence
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1954
The Golden Link
Movie Mme Sonia
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1953
The Fake
Movie Miss Fossett
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1951
The Galloping Major
Movie Horsey Lady (uncredited)
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1951
To Have and to Hold
Movie Roberta
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1950
Something in the City
Movie Mrs. Holley
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1949
Warning to Wantons
Movie Baroness de Jammes
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1946
Bedelia
Movie McKelvey's Housekeeper
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1945
Don Chicago
Movie Lady Vanessa
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1945
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Movie Gladys Dodd
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1940
Spare a Copper
Movie Lady Hardstaff
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1939
Sons of the Sea
Movie Margaret Hulls
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1937
Millions
Movie Janet Mason
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1937
Non-Stop New York
Movie Miss Harvey
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1937
The Street Singer
Movie Gloria Weston
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1937
Aren't Men Beasts!
Movie The Vamp
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1937
Splinters in the Air
Movie Charles' Wife
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1936
The Happy Family
Movie Leo Hutt
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1935
It's a Bet
Movie Mrs. Joe
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1933
Heads We Go
Movie Madame
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1932
The Last Coupon
Movie
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1932
The First Mrs Fraser
Movie Maid
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1931
My Wife's Family
Movie Dolly White
