Michael Balfour
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1918-02-11
- Fallecimiento:
- 1997-10-24
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Dover, Kent, England, UK
Biografía
Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's The Marvellous History of St Bernard, in 1938. He was a recognisable face, often in small character parts and supporting roles, in nearly two hundred films and TV shows, from the 1940s to the 1990s, often playing comical heavies or otherwise shady characters notable for their "loud" clothes, sometimes convincingly cast as an American. He worked for a roll call of film directors, including Tony Richardson, Pete Walker, Billy Wilder, Lewis Gilbert, Roman Polanski, Leslie Norman, Tim Burton, John Frankenheimer, François Truffaut, John Gilling, Stanley Donen, Ken Annakin, Cavalcanti, Lance Comfort, Terence Young, Gerald Thomas, Pasolini, John Paddy Carstairs, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Frank Launder, John Huston, Basil Dearden and Howard Hawks. Balfour had parts in many popular TV shows of the era including Educated Evans, Mess Mates, Danger Man, The Avengers, Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Rogue's Gallery, Z-Cars, The Onedin Line, and the detective drama The Vise, playing Saber's assistant Barney O'Keefe. Balfour was also known as the passenger in a Jaguar XK120 car driven by actor Bonar Colleano when it crashed, killing Colleano. Balfour's injuries required him to have 98 stitches, but he was released from hospital in time to attend Colleano's funeral. As his screen career began to slow down in the late 1970s, Michael Balfour went on tour with European circuses, as a clown. He founded Circus Hazzard, and created his own clown character. His son later became a circus manager. As well as performing, Balfour was a dedicated painter and sculptor, and in later years turned increasingly to sculpture and the arts, even running his own gallery for a while. For his subjects, he frequently drew on his own family career as a circus clown
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Revenge of Billy the Kid
Los Krays
Batman
Casanova
El pacto de Berlín
Como el perro y el gato
Kelly Monteith
El estrafalario prisionero de Zenda
Resting Rough
El secreto del castillo
The Stick Up
Joseph Andrews
The Copter Kids
Los cuentos de Canterbury
New Scotland Yard
Late Night Theatre
All Coppers Are...
Macbeth: un hombre frente al rey
Los Persuasores
La vida privada de Sherlock Holmes
Man of Violence
Los libertinos
Departamento S
El ataúd (La caja oblonga)
Hoverbug
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Jazz Age
Cold Comfort Farm
Rogues' Gallery
El prisionero
Escape
Mickey Dunne
Press for Time
Fahrenheit 451
El magnífico bribón
Strangler's Web
It's Not Me - It's Them!
Reluctant Bandit
Five Have a Mystery to Solve
The Rescue Squad
A Stitch in Time
Echo of Diana
A volante y a lo loco
Design for Loving
Steptoe and Son
She Always Gets Their Man
Pit of Darkness
The Ship That Couldn't Stop
The Monster of Highgate Ponds
Los vengadores
The Cheaters
Too Hot to Handle
Una rubia para un gángster
Danger Man
Theatre '70
Carry On Constable
¡Hundid el Bismarck!
La carne y el demonio
Mirando hacia atrás con ira
Interpol Calling
The Larkins
Monstruo sin rostro
The Big Money
The Steel Bayonet
Man from Tangier
Light Fingers
Quatermass 2
Breakaway
Armchair Theatre
Hancock's Half Hour
The Secret of the Forest
Secret Venture
Los caballeros se casan con las morenas
Strange Experiences
The Reluctant Bride
Dixon of Dock Green
Barbados Quest
One Good Turn
The Delavine Affair
It's a Great Day
Devil's Point
Delayed Action
Meet Mr. Callaghan
Scarlet Web
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
The Diamond Wizard
River Beat
Impulse
Small Town Story
3 Steps to the Gallows
Black 13
Albert R.N.
Love in Pawn
Three's Company
Park Plaza 605
Sesenta segundos de vida
Recoil
Johnny on the Run
Genoveva
The Steel Key
Hot Ice
Top Secret
Moulin Rouge
Venetian Bird
13 East Street
A Case For P.C. 49
The Quiet Woman
Quel bandito sono io
Prelude to Fame
Help Yourself
Scrapbook for 1933
Sunday Night Theatre
La novia era él
Helter Skelter
Obsession
Don't Ever Leave Me
Melody Club
Stop Press Girl
William Comes to Town
The Small Voice
El enemigo de las mujeres
Coche cama a Trieste
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Just William's Luck