Note: This filmography lists only the pictures made during the Balcon era, 1938–1959.
THE GAUNT STRANGER (1938)
Director: Walter Forde
Cast: Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson, Louise Henry, Patrick Barr, Alexander Knox, Patricia Roc.
THE WARE CASE (1938)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry K. Barnes, Peter Bull, John Laurie, Ernest Thesiger.
LET’S BE FAMOUS (1939)
Director: Walter Forde
Cast: Jimmy O’Dea, Betty Driver, Sonnie Hale, Patrick Barr, Basil Radford.
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Cast: George Formby, Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton, Garry Marsh, Ronald Shiner, Martita Hunt.
THE FOUR JUST MEN (1939)
Director: Walter Forde
Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Alan Napier.
THERE AIN’T NO JUSTICE (1939)
Director: Pen Tennyson
Cast: Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, Edward Chapman, Michael Wilding.
YOUNG MAN’S FANCY (1939)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Seymour Hicks, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer.
CHEER BOYS CHEER (1939)
Director: Walter Forde
Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Peter Coke, Jimmy O’Dea, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt.
COME ON GEORGE! (1939)
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Cast: George Formby, Patricia Kirkwood, Joss Ambler, Meriel Forbes, Ronald Shiner.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, Hartley Power, Milton Rosmer.
THE PROUD VALLEY (1940)
Director: Pen Tennyson
Cast: Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Edward Rigby, Simon Lack, Janet Johnson, Clifford Evans.
LET GEORGE DO IT! (1940)
Director: Marcel Varnel
Cast: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne.
CONVOY (1940)
Director: Pen Tennyson
Cast: Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Michael Wilding, John Laurie, Stewart Granger.
SALOON BAR (1940)
Director: Walter Forde
Cast: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Joyce Barbour.
SAILORS THREE (1940)
Director: Walter Forde
Cast: Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann, Alec Clunes, Danny Green.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Cast: George Formby, Dorothy Hyson, George Merritt, Bernard Lee.
THE GHOST OF ST. MICHAEL’S (1941)
Director: Marcel Varnel
Cast: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer, John Laurie.
TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN (1941)
Director: Marcel Varnel
Cast: George Formby, Peggy Bryan, Elliot Mason, Edward Chapman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Rennie.
SHIPS WITH WINGS (1941)
Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Cast: John Clements, Leslie Banks, Jane Baxter, Ann Todd, Basil Sydney, Michael Wilding, Michael Rennie, Cecil Parker.
THE BLACK SHEEP OF WHITEHALL (1942)
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Cast: Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Thora Hird.
THE BIG BLOCKADE (1942)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Leslie Banks, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Michael Rennie, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, Robert Morley, Marius Goring, Michael Wilding.
THE FOREMAN WENT TO FRANCE (1942)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans, Robert Morley, Gordon Jackson, Mervyn Johns.
THE NEXT OF KIN (1942)
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Murray, Basil Sydney, Jack Hawkins.
THE GOOSE STEPS OUT (1942)
Director: Will Hay, Basil Dearden
Cast: Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Croft, Barry Morse, Peter Ustinov, William Hartnell.
WENT THE DAY WELL? (1942)
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney, Valerie Taylor.
NINE MEN (1943)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland.
THE BELLS GO DOWN (1943)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Mervyn Johns, Philippa Hiatt, Finlay Currie.
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Cast: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Laurence Hanray.
UNDERCOVER (1943)
Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Cast: John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Mary Morris, Tom Walls, Michael Wilding, Stanley Baker.
SAN DEMETRIO LONDON (1943)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Ralph Michael, Walter Fitzgerald, Neville Mapp, Barry Letts, Gordon Jackson, Robert Beatty, James Donald.
THE HALFWAY HOUSE (1944)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Esmond Knight, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes.
FOR THOSE IN PERIL (1944)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: David Farrar, Ralph Michael, John Slater, Robert Wyndham, James Robertson Justice.
THEY CAME TO A CITY (1944)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: John Clements, Googie Withers, Raymond Huntley, Renne Gadd, A. E. Matthews, J. B. Priestley.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Austin Trevor, Jean Kent, Harry Fowler.
FIDDLERS THREE (1944)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Tommy Trinder, Frances Day, Sonnie Hale, Francis L. Sullivan, Elisabeth Welch, James Robertson Justice, Kay Kendall.
JOHNNY FRENCHMAN (1945)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Patricia Roc, Ralph Michael, Paul Dupuis.
PAINTED BOATS (1945)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Jenny Laird, Bill Blewitt, May Hallatt, Robert Griffith, Harry Fowler.
DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer.
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Sally Ann Howes, Roland Culver, Frederick Valk.
PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (1945)
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes.
THE CAPTIVE HEART (1946)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Basil Radford, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Gordon Jackson, Derek Bond, Rachel Kempson.
THE OVERLANDERS (1946)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, John Fernside.
HUE AND CRY (1947)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Valerie White, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (1947)
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes, Stanley Holloway, Sybil Thorndike, Bernard Miles, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jill Balcon.
THE LOVES OF JOANNA GODDEN (1947)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Chips Rafferty.
FRIEDA (1947)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: David Farrar, Mai Zetterling, Flora Robson, Glynis Johns.
IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (1947)
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman, Jimmy Hanley, Alfie Bass, Nigel Stock.
AGAINST THE WIND (1948)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis, James Robertson Justice.
SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS (1948)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Miles Malleson, Anthony Quayle, Michael Gough.
ANOTHER SHORE (1948)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Robert Beatty, Moira Lister, Stanley Holloway, Michael Medwin, Wilfrid Brambell.
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: John Mills, Derek Bond, Harold Warrender, James Robertson Justice, Reginald Beckwith, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Christopher Lee.
EUREKA STOCKADE (1949)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Peter Finch.
PASSPORT TO PIMLICO (1949)
Director: Henry Cornelius
Cast: Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford, Paul Dupuis, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Charles Hawtrey.
WHISKY GALORE (1949)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, John Gregson.
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, John Penrose, Arthur Lowe.
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Leslie Phillips, Peter Finch, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, John Gregson, Michael Hordern.
A RUN FOR YOUR MONEY (1949)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell.
THE BLUE LAMP (1950)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Peggy Evans, Bruce Seton.
DANCE HALL (1950)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Donald Houston, Petula Clark, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors, Kay Kendall, Eunice Gayson.
BITTER SPRINGS (1950)
Director: Ralph Smart
Cast: Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue.
CAGE OF GOLD (1950)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Madeleine Lebeau, Herbert Lom, Bernard Lee.
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson, Thora Hird.
POOL OF LONDON (1951)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Earl Cameron, Max Adrian, James Robertson Justice, Alfie Bass, Leslie Phillips.
THE LAVANDER HILL MOB (1951)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding, John Gregson, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw (uncredited).
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Vida Hope, Howard Marion-Crawford.
WHERE NO VULTURES FLY (1951)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Meredith Edwards.
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Susan Stephen, Clive Morton, Geoffrey Keen.
SECRET PEOPLE (1952)
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Charles Goldner, Audrey Hepburn, Megs Jenkins, Irene Worth.
I BELIEVE IN YOU (1952)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins, George Relph, Godfrey Tearle, Laurence Harvey, Ursula Howells, Sidney James, Katie Johnson, Brenda de Banzie.
MANDY (1952)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Godfrey Tearle, Mandy Miller, Marjorie Fielding, Eleanor Summerfield, Jane Asher.
THE GENTLE GUNMAN (1952)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Barbara Mullen.
THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT (1953)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Griffith, Sidney James.
THE CRUEL SEA (1953)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, John Stratton, Liam Redmond, Meredith Edwards, Bruce Seton, Glyn Houston, Virginia McKenna, Moira Lister, Alec McCowen.
THE SQUARE RING (1953)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Maxwell Reed, Bill Owen, Joan Collins, Kay Kendall, Sidney James.
MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953)
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Cast: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Gordon Jackson, Joan Sims, Ian Carmichael.
THE LOVE LOTTERY (1954)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Gordon Jackson, Felix Aylmer, Humphrey Bogart.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Paul Douglas, Alex MacKenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker, Tommy Kearins, Andrew Keir.
WEST OF ZANZIBAR (1954)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim, Edric Connor, Orlando Martins.
THE RAINBOW JACKET (1954)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Bill Owen, Honor Blackman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Sidney James.
LEASE OF LIFE (1954)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott.
THE DIVIDED HEART (1954)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox.
OUT OF THE CLOUDS (1955)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, Margo Lorenz, David Knight, James Robertson Justice, Eunice Gayson.
THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP (1955)
Director: Leslie Norman
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans, Michael Hordern, Nigel Stock.
THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME (1955)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna, Roland Culver, Bernard Lee.
TOUCH AND GO (1955)
Director: Michael Truman
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Margaret Johnston, June Thorburn, John Fraser.
THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Katie Johnson, Frankie Howerd.
THE FEMININE TOUCH (1956)
Director: Pat Jackson
Cast: George Baker, Belinda Lee, Delphi Lawrence, Adrienne Corri, Mandy Miller.
WHO DONE IT? (1956)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, Ernest Thesiger, Charles Hawtrey.
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Geoffrey Keen, Ursula Howells, Ian Bannen.
THE MAN IN THE SKY (1957)
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Walter Fitzgerald, Eddie Byrne, John Stratton, Lionel Jeffries, Donald Pleasence.
THE SHIRALEE (1957)
Director: Leslie Norman
Cast: Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars, George Rose, Sidney James.
BARNACLE BILL (1957)
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Maurice Denham, Percy Herbert, Victor Maddern, Richard Wattis, Lionel Jeffries.
DAVY (1958)
Director: Michael Relph
Cast: Harry Secombe, Ron Randell, George Relph, Susan Shaw, Bill Owen, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor.
DUNKIRK (1958)
Director: Leslie Norman
Cast: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Ray Jackson, Ronald Hines, Michael Bates, Kenneth Cope.
Director: Seth Holt
Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Bessie Love.
THE SIEGE OF PINCHGUT (1959)
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Aldo Ray, Heather Sears, Neil McCallum, Victor Maddern.