Michael Balcon
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Sir Michael Elias Balcon was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in west London from 1938 to 1956. Under his direction, the studio became one of the most important Brit
Green plaque on Balcon's house in Tufton Street, Westminster
English Heritage blue plaque on the front wall of the White Lodge at Ealing Studios, Ealing Green.
Cecil Day-Lewis
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Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Bl
Michael Balcon
…In 1946, Aileen was appointed an MBE for her war work. Their daughter Jill Balcon became an actress. She met Anglo-Irish poet, Cecil Day-Lewis, and the two started a relationship, marrying in 1951. (He was twenty years older than she and already married when they met. He had two teenage sons…
Day-Lewis in 1968
Headstone of Cecil Day-Lewis in the Stinsford churchyard
English Heritage blue plaque of Cecil Day-Lewis in Greenwich, London