# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-balcon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:50:49.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-balcon"
name: "Michael Balcon"
slug: "michael-balcon"
description: "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 British film studios of the day. In an industry short of Hollywood-style moguls, Balcon emerged as a key figure, and an obdurately British one too, in his benevolent, somewhat headmasterly approach to the running of a creative organization. He is known for his leadership, and his guidance of young Alfred Hitchcock."
tagline: "English film producer (1896–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Becky_Sharp_(1935)_8.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1896-05-19"
deathDate: "1977-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.63
  momentum:             1.245609927417467
  historical:           11.772908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049608/"
    handle:    "nm0049608"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μάικλ Μπάλκον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%86"
    title: "مایکل بالکن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%EB%B0%B8%EC%BB%A8"
    title: "마이클 밸컨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balcon"
    title: "Michael Balcon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Бэлкон, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump