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Nora Swinburne

Acting
97 years oldBath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]

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

Personal Details

Born
July 24, 1902 - May 1, 2000 (age 97)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
Known For
Acting

Also Known As

Norah Swinburne
Elinore Johnson
Leonora Mary Johnson

Movies (42)

Up the Chastity Belt
4.0

Up the Chastity Belt

as Mistress of the Bed Chamber

1972

Anne of the Thousand Days
7.1

Anne of the Thousand Days

as Lady Kingston

1969

Interlude
5.3

Interlude

as Mary

1968

Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?

Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?

as Mrs. Prentice

1968

The Gong Game

The Gong Game

as Mrs. Breeze

1965

Decision at Midnight
6.0

Decision at Midnight

1963

Conspiracy of Hearts
6.7

Conspiracy of Hearts

as Sister Tia

1960

Third Man on the Mountain
6.6

Third Man on the Mountain

as Frau Matt

1959

Perilous Assignment
10.0

Perilous Assignment

as Self

1959

The Strange Awakening
6.2

The Strange Awakening

as Mrs. Friend

1958

Helen of Troy
6.3

Helen of Troy

as Hecuba

1956

The End of the Affair
5.7

The End of the Affair

as Mrs Bertram

1955

Betrayed
5.6

Betrayed

as The Scarf's Mother

1954

Quo Vadis
7.1

Quo Vadis

as Pomponia

1951

The River
7.2

The River

as The Mother

1951

My Daughter Joy

My Daughter Joy

as Ava Constantin

1950

Christopher Columbus
5.7

Christopher Columbus

as Joanna de Torres

1949

Landfall
7.0

Landfall

as Admiral's Wife

1949

Marry Me
4.3

Marry Me

as Enid Lawson

1949

Fools Rush In
6.0

Fools Rush In

as Angela Dickson

1949

The Bad Lord Byron
6.0

The Bad Lord Byron

as Lady Jersey

1949

Quartet
6.2

Quartet

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

1948

The Blind Goddess
5.6

The Blind Goddess

as Lady Dearing

1948

Good-Time Girl
6.1

Good-Time Girl

as Miss Mills

1948

Jassy
5.4

Jassy

as Mrs. Hatton

1947

They Knew Mr. Knight
5.7

They Knew Mr. Knight

as Celia Blake

1946

Fanny by Gaslight
5.2

Fanny by Gaslight

as Mary Hopwood

1944

Dear Octopus

Dear Octopus

as Edna

1943

The Man in Grey
5.9

The Man in Grey

as Mrs. Fitzherbert

1943

They Flew Alone
6.0

They Flew Alone

as ATA Commandant

1942

The Farmer's Wife
6.0

The Farmer's Wife

as Araminta Grey

1941

It Happened to One Man

It Happened to One Man

as Alice Quair

1940

The Citadel
6.4

The Citadel

as Mrs. Thornton

1938

Dinner at the Ritz
5.5

Dinner at the Ritz

as Lady Railton

1937

The Gay Adventure

The Gay Adventure

as Fay d'Allary

1936

Lonely Road
6.2

Lonely Road

as Anne

1936

Jury's Evidence

Jury's Evidence

as Mary Trent

1936

Lend Me Your Husband
5.0

Lend Me Your Husband

as Virgie Green

1935

The Office Wife

The Office Wife

as Anne

1934

Perfect Understanding
6.1

Perfect Understanding

as Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice

1933

Mr. Bill the Conqueror

Mr. Bill the Conqueror

as Diana Trenchard

1932

White Face

White Face

as Inez Landor

1932

TV Shows (8)