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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1918-02-11
- event Death Date 1997-10-24
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 0.3
- info Birth Place Dover, Kent, England, UK
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Design for Loving
1962-03-01
6.8
Obsession
1949-08-03
6.2
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
1948-04-15
0
Five Have a Mystery to Solve
1964-05-01
6
Meet Mr. Callaghan
1954-06-01
5.6
Press for Time
1966-01-01
5.6
Man of Violence
1970-06-01
4.6
Man from Tangier
1957-11-25
0
The Secret of the Forest
1956-01-01
5.5
Recoil
1953-08-01
6
Scrapbook for 1933
1950-02-06
5
Revenge of Billy the Kid
1992-01-01
0
Secret Venture
1955-11-10
4.5
Barbados Quest
1955-07-01
6.4
3 Steps to the Gallows
1953-12-01
5.2
Park Plaza 605
1953-09-11
5.2
Delayed Action
1954-07-01
4.5
The Stick Up
1977-04-10
5.2
Breakaway
1956-07-16
5
A Case For P.C. 49
1951-08-01
6.2
The Small Voice
1948-11-27
5
The Delavine Affair
1955-01-03
5.9
The Diamond Wizard
1954-04-01
6.2
The Canterbury Tales
1972-09-02
6
Top Secret
1952-11-10
0
Light Fingers
1957-08-01
5.4
The Steel Bayonet
1958-02-01
0
Black 13
1953-11-30
5.8
The Oblong Box
1969-06-11
4.6
Impulse
1954-01-01
7
Just William's Luck
1947-12-17
0
Help Yourself
1950-02-15
5
Scarlet Web
1954-06-01
5.6
The Prisoner of Zenda
1979-08-17
0
Three's Company
1953-10-26
6.7
Look Back in Anger
1959-09-15
5.9
River Beat
1954-02-01
6.7
Moulin Rouge
1952-12-23
6
Melody Club
1949-07-01
6.9
I Was a Male War Bride
1949-08-26
7.1
Macbeth
1971-12-20
6.3
Carry On Constable
1960-02-22
0
Resting Rough
1979-06-01
0
Hoverbug
1969-06-01
6
Fiend Without a Face
1958-07-03
7.5
Johnny on the Run
1953-06-01
0
The Copter Kids
1976-02-01
9
Strangler's Web
1965-08-01
0
William Comes to Town
1948-12-31
6.9
Candleshoe
1977-12-16
5.8
The Quiet Woman
1951-03-01
5.5
Her Favourite Husband
1950-05-11
5.2
13 East Street
1952-03-01
5
The Monster of Highgate Ponds
1961-05-01
6.4
Quatermass 2
1957-05-24
6.8
All Coppers Are...
1972-01-24
6.9
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970-10-29
6.6
The Red Beret
1953-08-11
0
Devil's Point
1954-12-07
6.7
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948-10-06
7.3
Batman
1989-06-21
7.2
Albert R.N.
1953-11-23
4.5
Too Hot to Handle
1960-12-01
6.8
Sink the Bismarck!
1960-02-11
6.3
Pit of Darkness
1961-10-01
7.5
Don't Ever Leave Me
1949-07-19
6.5
Love in Pawn
1953-11-23
4.5
The Adventurers
1970-03-25
6.6
Genevieve
1953-05-28
6.4
The Big Money
1958-06-09
6
Venetian Bird
1952-10-01
5.2
Echo of Diana
1963-05-01
6.2
Helter Skelter
1949-01-07
5.6
The Fast Lady
1962-12-14
5
The Reluctant Bride
1955-08-01
5.7
It's a Great Day
1955-01-01
5.5
The Steel Key
1953-05-01
7.2
Fahrenheit 451
1966-09-07
5.5
The Holcroft Covenant
1985-09-20
5.6
Stop Press Girl
1949-06-02
7.2
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954-06-01
7
Woman Hater
1948-10-13
6.6
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960-02-02
4.9
Kaleidoscope
1966-07-01
6
The Krays
1990-04-27
5.8
Surprise Package
1960-09-29
4
She Always Gets Their Man
1962-01-01
4
The Rescue Squad
1963-01-01
0
Reluctant Bandit
1965-02-15
6.7
Interpol Calling
1959-09-13
6.7
Interpol Calling
1959-09-13
7.5
Hancock's Half Hour
1956-07-06
5.3
Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09
5.3
Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09
7
The Larkins
1958-09-19
10
Rogues' Gallery
1968-01-01
7.8
The Prisoner
1967-09-29
7.6
The Persuaders!
1971-09-17
6
Kelly Monteith
1979-11-15
5
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
1969-04-23
4.9
Department S
1969-09-09
7.2
Danger Man
1960-09-11
0
The Cheaters
1960-12-10
0
The Cheaters
1960-12-10
5.8
Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08
5.8
Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08
5.8
Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08
5.3
Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09
5.3
Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09
5.3
Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09
6.4
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985-01-11
7.7
The Avengers
1961-01-07
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Sailor of Fortune
1957-05-26