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. 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)
Known for
Credits
The Wicked Lady (1983)
as Mrs. Munce
Florence Nightingale (1985)
as Lady Monteagle
Piccadilly (1929)
as Vamp (uncredited)
The Fake (1953)
as Miss Fossett
Horror Hospital (1973)
as Olga ("Aunt Harris")
Finders Keepers (1966)
as Grandma
Master Spy (1964)
as Dr. Morrell
Rapture (1965)
as Landlady
Something in the City (1950)
as Mrs. Holley
So Evil, So Young (1961)
as Miss Smith
Sons of the Sea (1939)
as Margaret Hulls
Heads We Go (1933)
as Madame
The Galloping Major (1951)
as Horsey Lady (uncredited)
Moulin Rouge (1928)
as Girl
The Hypnotist (1957)
as Miss Barbara Barton
Bedelia (1946)
as McKelvey's Housekeeper
The Last Coupon (1932)
Actor
The Informer (1929)
as Prostitute
Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)
as Gladys Dodd
Don Chicago (1945)
as Lady Vanessa
Who Killed the Cat? (1966)
as Ruth Prendergast
My Wife's Family (1931)
as Dolly White
The Golden Link (1954)
as Mme Sonia
Splinters in the Air (1937)
as Charles' Wife
To Have and to Hold (1951)
as Roberta
Millions (1937)
as Janet Mason
Too Many Crooks (1930)
as The Other Girl
The First Mrs Fraser (1932)
as Maid
Non-Stop New York (1937)
as Miss Harvey
Spare a Copper (1940)
as Lady Hardstaff
The Time of His Life (1955)
as Lady Florence
Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
as The Vamp
Mrs. Wickens in the Fall (1957)
as Mme Charcot
The Street Singer (1937)
as Gloria Weston
The Long Knife (1958)
as Mrs. Cheam
Night Birds (1930)
as Flossie
It's a Bet (1935)
as Mrs. Joe
Warning to Wantons (1949)
as Baroness de Jammes
The Happy Family (1936)
as Leo Hutt