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