Michael Balfour

Michael Creighton Balfour (11 Februari 1918 – 24 Oktober 1997) adalah seorang aktor Inggris, yang sebagian besar bekerja di film dan TV Inggris, setelah debut TV-nya di BBC The Marvelous History of St Bernard, pada tahun 1938. Ia adalah wajah yang mudah dikenali, sering kali dalam peran karakter kecil dan peran pendukung, di hampir dua ratus film dan acara TV, dari tahun 1940-an hingga 1990-an, sering kali memainkan karakter-karakter lucu atau karakter-karakter yang teduh. terkenal karena pakaiannya yang "keras", terkadang secara meyakinkan berperan sebagai orang Amerika. Dia bekerja untuk sejumlah sutradara film, termasuk 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 dan Howard Hawks. Balfour berperan dalam banyak acara TV populer pada masa itu termasuk Educated Evans, Mess Mates, Danger Man, The Avengers, Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Rogue's Gallery, Z-Cars, The Onedin Line, dan drama detektif The Vise, berperan sebagai asisten Saber, Barney O'Keefe. Balfour juga dikenal sebagai penumpang mobil Jaguar XK120 yang dikendarai aktor Bonar Colleano saat mengalami kecelakaan yang menewaskan Colleano. Cedera Balfour mengharuskan dia mendapat 98 jahitan, tapi dia keluar dari rumah sakit tepat waktu untuk menghadiri pemakaman Colleano. Ketika karir layarnya mulai melambat pada akhir tahun 1970-an, Michael Balfour melanjutkan tur dengan sirkus Eropa, sebagai badut. Dia mendirikan Circus Hazzard, dan menciptakan karakter badutnya sendiri. Putranya kemudian menjadi manajer sirkus. Selain tampil, Balfour adalah seorang pelukis dan pematung yang berdedikasi, dan di tahun-tahun berikutnya semakin beralih ke seni pahat dan seni, bahkan menjalankan galerinya sendiri untuk sementara waktu. Untuk subjeknya, dia sering memanfaatkan karier keluarganya sendiri sebagai badut sirkus

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