Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1903-07-29
Day of Death
1997-03-29
Place of Birth
Heidelberg, Germany
Ellen Pollock
Biography
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 (38)
The Wicked Lady
1983
Horror Hospital
1973
Finders Keepers
1966
Who Killed the Cat?
1966
Rapture
1965
Master Spy
1964
So Evil, So Young
1961
The Long Knife
1958
Mrs. Wickens in the Fall
1957
The Hypnotist
1957
The Time of His Life
1955The Golden Link
1954
The Fake
1953
The Galloping Major
1951
