Nora Swinburne

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1902-07-24 (98 years old)

Deathday

2000-05-01

Place of Birth

Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]

Nora Swinburne

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nora Swinburne (24 July 1902 - 1 May 2000) was a British actress, born Leonora Mary Johnson in Bath, Somerset, daughter of Henry Swinburne Johnson and his wife Leonora Tamar (née Brain). She married English character actor Francis Lister in 1924, actor Edward Ashley-Cooper in 1934, and actor Esmond Knight in 1946. Her stepdaughter is the actress Rosalind Knight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nora Swinburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Acting

1936

Jury's Evidence

as Mary Trent

1969

1951

Quo Vadis

as Pomponia

1943

The Man in Grey

as Mrs. Fitzherbert

1956

Helen of Troy

as Hecuba

1951

The River

as The Mother

1954

Betrayed

as The Scarf's Mother

1938

The Citadel

as Mrs. Thornton

1955

The End of the Affair

as Mrs Bertram

1958

The Strange Awakening

as Mrs. Friend

1942

They Flew Alone

as ATA Commandant

1950

My Daughter Joy

as Ava Constantin

1949

Christopher Columbus

as Joanna de Torres

1933

Perfect Understanding

as Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice

1936

Lonely Road

as Lady Anne

1948

The Blind Goddess

as Lady Dearing

1968

Interlude

as Mary

1946

They Knew Mr. Knight

as Celia Blake

1947

Jassy

as Mrs. Hatton

1935

Lend Me Your Husband

as Virgie Green

1960

1944

Fanny by Gaslight

as Mary Hopwood

1924

The Unwanted

as Joyce Mannering

1930

Alf's Button

as Lady Isobel Fitzpeter

1965

The Gong Game

as Mrs. Breeze

1949

Fools Rush In

as Angela Dickson

1949

The Bad Lord Byron

as Lady Jersey

1941

The Farmer's Wife

as Araminta Grey

1934

1922

Allein im Urwald

as Lydia Gyldendal

1924

His Grace Gives Notice

as Cynthia Bannock

1921

The Autumn of Pride

as Peggy Naylor

1921

1940

1943

1930

Caste

as Esther Eccles

1931

Potiphar's Wife

as Lady Diana Bromford

1949

Marry Me

as Enid Lawson

1931

Man of Mayfair

as Elaine Barclay

1931

These Charming People

as Julia Berridge

1932

White Face

as Inez Landor

1932

Mr. Bill the Conqueror

as Diana Trenchard

1932

A Voice Said Goodnight

as Joan Creighton

1949

Landfall

as Admiral's Wife

1948

Quartet

as Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

1948

Good-Time Girl

as Miss Mills

1972

Up the Chastity Belt

as The Mistress Of The Bed Chamber - Lady-In-Waiting

1922

1937

Dinner at the Ritz

as Lady Railton

1936

The Gay Adventure

as Fay d'Allary

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