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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 24, 1902
Place of Birth:
Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
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Nora Swinburne
Biography
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Up the Chastity Belt | The Mistress Of The Bed Chamber - Lady-In-Waiting |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Lady Kingston |
| 1968 | Interlude | Mary |
| 1968 | Got Yourself Sorted Out at All? | Mrs. Prentice |
| 1965 | The Gong Game | Mrs. Breeze |
| 1963 | Decision at Midnight | |
| 1960 | Conspiracy of Hearts | Sister Tia |
| 1959 | Perilous Assignment | Self |
| 1959 | Third Man on the Mountain | Frau Matt |
| 1958 | The Strange Awakening | Mrs. Friend |
| 1956 | Helen of Troy | Hecuba |
| 1955 | The End of the Affair | Mrs Bertram |
| 1954 | Betrayed | The Scarf's Mother |
| 1951 | Quo Vadis | Pomponia |
| 1951 | The River | The Mother |
| 1950 | My Daughter Joy | Ava Constantin |
| 1949 | Christopher Columbus | Joanna de Torres |
| 1949 | Fools Rush In | Angela Dickson |
| 1949 | The Bad Lord Byron | Lady Jersey |
| 1949 | Marry Me | Enid Lawson |
| 1949 | Landfall | Admiral's Wife |
| 1948 | The Blind Goddess | Lady Dearing |
| 1948 | Quartet | Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
| 1948 | Good-Time Girl | Miss Mills |
| 1947 | Jassy | Mrs. Hatton |
| 1946 | They Knew Mr. Knight | Celia Blake |
| 1944 | Fanny by Gaslight | Mary Hopwood |
| 1943 | The Man in Grey | Mrs. Fitzherbert |
| 1943 | Dear Octopus | Edna |
| 1942 | They Flew Alone | ATA Commandant |
| 1941 | The Farmer's Wife | Araminta Grey |
| 1940 | It Happened to One Man | Alice Quair |
| 1938 | The Citadel | Mrs. Thornton |
| 1937 | Dinner at the Ritz | Lady Railton |
| 1936 | Jury's Evidence | Mary Trent |
| 1936 | Lonely Road | Lady Anne |
| 1936 | The Gay Adventure | Fay d'Allary |
| 1935 | Lend Me Your Husband | Virgie Green |
| 1934 | The Office Wife | Anne |
| 1933 | Perfect Understanding | Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice |
| 1932 | White Face | Inez Landor |
| 1932 | Mr. Bill the Conqueror | Diana Trenchard |
| 1932 | A Voice Said Goodnight | Joan Creighton |
| 1931 | Potiphar's Wife | Lady Diana Bromford |
| 1931 | Man of Mayfair | Elaine Barclay |
| 1931 | These Charming People | Julia Berridge |
| 1930 | Alf's Button | Lady Isobel Fitzpeter |
| 1930 | The Royal Four-Flusher | |
| 1930 | Caste | Esther Eccles |
| 1924 | The Unwanted | Joyce Mannering |
| 1924 | His Grace Gives Notice | Cynthia Bannock |
| 1922 | Allein im Urwald | Lydia Gyldendal |
| 1922 | The White Desert | Karin |
| 1921 | The Autumn of Pride | Peggy Naylor |
| 1921 | The Fortune of Christina McNab | Christina McNab |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Fall of Eagles | Katharina Schratt |
| 1972 | Dead of Night | Mariella Jubb |
| 1970 | Manhunt | The Countess |