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Encyclopedia > Jill Balcon

Jill Balcon (born January 3, 1925) is a British actress.


The daughter of Michael Balcon, she was born in London and made her film debut in Nicholas Nickleby (1947). Over the years has appeared regularly, though not extensively, on screen.


In 1951, she married Nicholas Blake, better known as the poet Cecil Day-Lewis. They had two children: one of whom is the actor, Daniel Day-Lewis.


External links

  • Jill Balcon (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/457365/) at screenonline (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/)
  • Jill Balcon (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049607/) at the Internet Movie Database

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"The Pleasure Garden" 1926 (1371 words)
Jill breaks with her fiancé Hugh Fielding (John Stuart) who is in the Tropics.
In 1925 Michael Balcon joined with the German director Erich Pommer to produce "The Blackguard," and that was followed by two other ("The Pleasure Garden" and "The Mountain Eagle") films in collaboration with one of the large German studios, the Emelka Company, at its Munich studios.
Balcon assigned young Alfred Hitchcock to serve as his art director, screenwriter, and assistant director, and Balcon also gave Hitchcock his first job as a director.
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