Nova Pilbeam

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1919-11-15 (96 years old)

Deathday

2015-07-17

Place of Birth

Wimbledon, London, England, UK

Nova Pilbeam

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nova Margery Pilbeam (15 November 1919 – 17 July 2015) was an English film and stage actress. Pilbeam gained attention as a child stage actress. This led to much work in her teen years. She appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), in which she plays a girl who is abducted, following this with her lead performance as Lady Jane Grey in Tudor Rose (1936). She had a starring role in Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937), which she regarded as "the sunniest film I was involved with", and formed a constructive professional relationship with Hitchcock. She appeared in an early Brit...

Acting

1937

Young and Innocent

as Erica Burgoyne

1934

The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Betty Lawrence

1943

Yellow Canary

as Betty Maitland

1939

Cheer Boys Cheer

as Margaret Greenleaf

1948

The Three Weird Sisters

as Claire Prentiss

1947

Green Fingers

as Alexandra Baxter

1940

Pastor Hall

as Christine Hall

1934

Little Friend

as Felicity Hughes

1942

Banana Ridge

as Cora Pound

1948

Counterblast

as Tracy Heart

1936

Tudor Rose

as Lady Jane Grey

1946

This Man Is Mine

as Phoebe Ferguson

1941

Spring Meeting

as Baby Furze

1942

The Next of Kin

as Beppie Leemans

1944

Out of Chaos

as Narrator (voice)

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