Name
Ellen Pollock
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1903-07-29
Deathday
1997-03-29 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Heidelberg, Germany
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)
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- 1973 Horror Hospital as Olga ("Aunt Harris")
- 1965 Rapture as Landlady
- 1961 So Evil, So Young as Miss Smith
- 1951 To Have and to Hold as Roberta
- 1928 Moulin Rouge as Girl
- 1966 Finders Keepers as Grandma
- 1937 The Street Singer as Gloria Weston
- 1937 Millions as Janet Mason
- 1937 Splinters in the Air as Charles' Wife
- 1955 The Time of His Life as Lady Florence
- 1957 The Hypnotist as Miss Barbara Barton
- 1945 Kiss the Bride Goodbye as Gladys Dodd
- 1953 The Fake as Miss Fossett
- 1939 Sons of the Sea as Margaret Hulls
- 1940 Spare a Copper as Lady Hardstaff
- 1930 Night Birds as Flossie
- 1950 Something in the City as Mrs. Holley
- 1933 Heads We Go as Madame
- 1937 Aren't Men Beasts! as The Vamp
- 1929 Piccadilly as Vamp (uncredited)
- 1935 It's a Bet as Mrs. Joe
- 1932 The Last Coupon
- 1930 Too Many Crooks as The Other Girl
- 1931 My Wife's Family as Dolly White
- 1936 The Happy Family as Leo Hutt
- 1929 The Informer as Prostitute
- 1949 Warning to Wantons as Baroness de Jammes
- 1946 Bedelia as McKelvey's Housekeeper
- 1966 Who Killed the Cat? as Ruth Prendergast
- 1937 Non-Stop New York as Miss Harvey
- 1945 Don Chicago as Lady Vanessa
- 1932 The First Mrs Fraser as Maid
- 1951 The Galloping Major as Horsey Lady (uncredited)
- 1964 Master Spy as Dr. Morrell
- 1983 The Wicked Lady as Mrs. Munce
- 1954 The Golden Link as Mme Sonia
- 1958 The Long Knife as Mrs. Cheam
- 1957 Mrs. Wickens in the Fall as Mme Charcot
- 1985 Florence Nightingale as Lady Monteagle
- 1968 Ooh La La! ( 1 episode ) as Mama
- 1983 The Old Men at the Zoo ( 1 episode ) as Sophie Englander
- 1962 Richard the Lionheart ( 1 episode ) as Lady Melinda
- 1971 Cousin Bette ( 1 episode ) as Mme. Nourisson
- 1973 Chéri ( 5 episodes ) as Baroness de la Berche
- 1967 The Forsyte Saga ( 4 episodes ) as Madame Lamotte
