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Jill Balcon is a Actor British born on 3 january 1925 at London (United-kingdom)
Jill Angela Henriette Balcon (3 January 1925 – 18 July 2009) was an English film and radio actress. She made her film debut in Nicholas Nickleby (1947), though she was best known for her stage, television, and radio work.
Ils ont ensemble deux enfants, l'acteur Daniel Day-Lewis et la réalisatrice et chef cuisinier Tamasin Day-Lewis, née le 17 septembre 1953.
Jill Balcon est morte en 2009 d'une tumeur au cerveau, à l'age 84 ans.
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Jill Balcon
Birth name Jill Angela Henriette Balcon
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 january 1925 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 july 2009 (at 84 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 january 1925 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 july 2009 (at 84 years)
Biography
Fille de Michael Balcon et Aileen Freda Leatherman, elle épouse en 1951 le poète lauréat irlandais Cecil Day-Lewis, de 21 ans son aîné. Déjà marié au moment de leur rencontre, il partage son temps entre elle, sa maîtresse Rosamond Lehmann et son épouse Mary King Day-Lewis, avec qui il a déjà deux fils.Ils ont ensemble deux enfants, l'acteur Daniel Day-Lewis et la réalisatrice et chef cuisinier Tamasin Day-Lewis, née le 17 septembre 1953.
Jill Balcon est morte en 2009 d'une tumeur au cerveau, à l'age 84 ans.
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An Ideal Husband (1999)
, 1h37Directed by Oliver Parker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Cate Blanchett, Peter Vaughan, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam
Rating67%
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old and the plot to help his friend has unintended consequences.
Wittgenstein (1993)
, 1h15Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kevin Collins, Nabil Shaban, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, Jill Balcon
Rating68%
Le film retrace la pensée et la vie du philosophe autrichien Ludwig Wittgenstein au travers de différentes saynètes.
Edward II (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan, Kevin Collins, Dudley Sutton, Jerome Flynn
Roles Chorus of Nobility
Rating67%
Once installed as king, Edward II summons his friend and lover, Piers Gaveston, to his side and showers him with gifts, titles and abiding love. Their relationship is fiery and passionate, but it is the focus of gossip and derision throughout the kingdom. Upon his return, Gaveston takes revenge on the Bishop of Winchester, who had been responsible for his banishment from England during the previous reign, by personally torturing him. Kent, Edwards’ brother, is the first to protest Gaveston's return. Many others feel the same way, including the Bishop of Winchester and Lord Mortimer, who is in charge of the army forces of the kingdom. Nevertheless, Edward defends his lover from his mounting enemies.
The Lost People (1949)
, 1h29Directed by Muriel Box, Bernard Knowles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhán McKenna, Maxwell Reed, William Hartnell
Roles Rebecca
Rating63%
After the Second World War, some British soldiers are guarding a theatre in Germany containing various refugees and prisoners trying to work out what to do with them. However, the displaced people, after uniting against fascism for five years, begin to disintegrate into their own petty feuds: Serb against Croat, Pole against Russian, resistance fighter against collaborator and everyone against the Jews. Two people, Jan and Lily, begin a romance and decide to wed. However, one of the refugees is diagnosed with bubonic plague.
Good-Time Girl (1948)
, 1h21Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Diana Dors
Rating64%
The film opens with Miss Thorpe, the chairman of the Juvenile court, giving advice to troubled teenager Lyla Lawrence. Miss Thorpe tells Lyla that her life has a similar beginning to that of Gwen Rawlings.
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
, 1h36Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Peter C. Bull, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Frederick Valk
Roles Knesbeck
Rating64%
Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) seeks solace from dashing Count Philip Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) when her husband Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), later to become King George I of Great Britain, wants nothing to do with her. The lovers are brought down by a jealous Countess Platen (Flora Robson).
, 1h48Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Stanley Holloway, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Cathleen Nesbitt
Rating68%
After the patriarch of the family dies and leaves them with no source of income, Nicholas Nickleby, his mother, and his younger sister Kate venture to London to seek help from their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph, an investor who arranges for Nicholas to be hired as a tutor at Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and finds Kate work as a seamstress. Nicholas meets Mr. Squeers just as he concludes business with Mr. Snawley, who is "boarding" his two unwanted stepsons.