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Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London . ___MASK50___ bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making , and films have been made on the site ever since . It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world , and the current stages were opened for the use of sound in 1931 . It is best known for a series of classic films produced in the post - WWII years , including " Kind Hearts and Coronets " ( 1949 ), " Passport to Pimlico " ( 1949 ), " The Lavender Hill Mob " ( 1951 ), and " The Ladykillers " ( 1955 ). The BBC owned and filmed at the Studios for forty years from 1955 until 1995 . Since 2000 , Ealing Studios has resumed releasing films under its own name , including the revived " St Trinian ' s " franchise . In more recent times , films shot here include " The Importance of Being Earnest " ( 2002 ) and " Shaun of the Dead " ( 2004 ), as well as " The Theory of Everything " ( 2014 ), " The Imitation Game " ( 2014 ) and " Burnt " ( 2015 ). Interior scenes of the British period drama television series " Downton Abbey " are shot in Stage 2 of the studios . The Met Film School London operates on the site . The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios . Directed by ___MASK71___ , it stars Katie Johnson , Alec Guinness , Cecil Parker , Herbert Lom , ___MASK81___ , Danny Green and Jack Warner . American William Rose wrote the screenplay , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay . He claimed to have dreamt the entire film and merely had to remember the details when he awoke . Kind Hearts and Coronets is a British black comedy film of 1949 starring Dennis Price , Joan Greenwood , Valerie Hobson , and Alec Guinness . Guinness plays eight distinct characters . The plot is loosely based on the novel " Israel Rank : The Autobiography of a Criminal " ( 1907 ) by Roy Horniman , with the screenplay written by ___MASK70___ and John Dighton and the film directed by Hamer . The title refers to a line in Tennyson ' s poem " Lady Clara Vere de Vere ": " Kind hearts are more than coronets , and simple faith than Norman blood ." Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring Stanley Holloway , Margaret Rutherford and Hermione Baddeley . It was directed by ___MASK32___ and written by T . E . B . Clarke . The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that lead to a small part of Pimlico to be declared a legal part of the House of Burgundy , and therefore exempt from the post - war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions active in Britain at the time . The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios , written by T . E . B . Clarke , directed by ___MASK67___ , starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass . The title refers to Lavender Hill , a street in Battersea , a district of South London , in the postcode district SW11 , near to Clapham Junction railway station . Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British horror comedy film directed by ___MASK9___ , written by Wright and Simon Pegg , and starring Pegg and Nick Frost . Pegg plays Shaun , a man attempting to get some kind of focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend , his mother and stepfather . At the same time , he has to cope with an apocalyptic zombie uprising . Another Shore is a 1948 Ealing Studios comedy film / tragedy filmed in Ireland . It stars Robert Beatty as Gulliver Shields , an Irish customs official who dreams of living on a South Sea island ; particularly Rarotonga . It is based on the book by Justice Kenneth Reddin . Robert Beatty was a Canadian actor who had a major success playing an IRA man in Odd Man Out .