Michael Balfour

🎂 Data nașterii: 1918-02-11 (Dover, Kent, England, UK)

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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Design for Loving

Obsession

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Five Have a Mystery to Solve

Meet Mr. Callaghan

Press for Time

Man of Violence

Man from Tangier

The Secret of the Forest

Recoil

Scrapbook for 1933

Revenge of Billy the Kid

Secret Venture

Barbados Quest

3 Steps to the Gallows

Park Plaza 605

Delayed Action

The Stick Up

Breakaway

A Case For P.C. 49

The Small Voice

The Delavine Affair

The Diamond Wizard

Poveștile Canterbury

Top Secret

Light Fingers

The Steel Bayonet

Black 13

The Oblong Box

Impulse

Just William's Luck

Help Yourself

Scarlet Web

Prizonierul din Zenda

Three's Company

Look Back in Anger

River Beat

Moulin Rouge

Melody Club

I Was a Male War Bride

Macbeth

Carry On Constable

Resting Rough

Hoverbug

Fiend Without a Face

Johnny on the Run

The Copter Kids

Strangler's Web

William Comes to Town

Candleshoe

The Quiet Woman

Quel bandito sono io

13 East Street

The Monster of Highgate Ponds

Quatermass 2

All Coppers Are...

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Red Beret

Devil's Point

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Batman

Albert R.N.

Too Hot to Handle

Sink the Bismarck!

Pit of Darkness

Don't Ever Leave Me

Love in Pawn

The Adventurers

Genevieve

The Big Money

Venetian Bird

Echo of Diana

Helter Skelter

The Fast Lady

The Reluctant Bride

It's a Great Day

The Steel Key

Fahrenheit 451