Michael Balcon

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.

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

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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.