Anecdotes

Often acted in the theater in productions of George Bernard Shaw plays.

Was the longtime president of the Shaw Society.

Ran her own street market antique stall.

Long-standing drama teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Webber Douglas School of Acting.

Was inspired to take up acting by watching Sarah Bernhardt.

Began her theatrical career, aged 17, as a page in Romeo and Juliet at the Everyman in Hampstead.

Ellen Pollock's first husband, Lt. Col. Leslie Frank Hancock OBE (25 October 1899 - 12 July 1944) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. While overseeing the construction of the Royal Air Force ALG B-12 at Ellon, Hancock was killed when the jeep he was travelling in struck a landmine near Maupertus-sur-Mer on 12 July 1944.