Ellen Pollock
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)
Acting
Movie
Horror Hospital
as Olga ("Aunt Harris")
1973
Movie
Rapture
as Landlady
1965
Movie
Piccadilly
as Vamp (uncredited)
1929
Movie
The Wicked Lady
as Mrs. Munce
1983
Movie
The Informer
as Prostitute
1929
Movie
Moulin Rouge
as Girl
1928
Movie
The Fake
as Miss Fossett
1953
Movie
Non-Stop New York
as Miss Harvey
1937
Movie
Florence Nightingale
as Lady Monteagle
1985
Movie
Bedelia
as McKelvey's Housekeeper
1946
Movie
The Galloping Major
as Horsey Lady (uncredited)
1951
Movie
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
as Gladys Dodd
1945
Movie
So Evil, So Young
as Miss Smith
1961
Movie
The Time of His Life
as Lady Florence
1955
Movie
The Hypnotist
as Miss Barbara Barton
1957
Movie
Spare a Copper
as Lady Hardstaff
1940
Movie
Sons of the Sea
as Margaret Hulls
1939
Movie
To Have and to Hold
as Roberta
1951
Movie
Finders Keepers
as Grandma
1966
Movie
Something in the City
as Mrs. Holley
1950
TV
Cousin Bette
as Mme. Nourisson
1971
Movie
Millions
as Janet Mason
1937
Movie
Who Killed the Cat?
as Ruth Prendergast
1966
Movie
Master Spy
as Dr. Morrell
1964