Nora Swinburne

Personal Info

Birthday

July 24, 1902

Day of Death

2000-05-01

(97 years old)

Place of Birth

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

Also Known As

Norah Swinburne

Elinore Johnson

Leonora Mary Johnson

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

Known For

BBC Play of the Month

Manhunt

Quo Vadis

Fall of Eagles

The Jazz Age

The Farmer's Wife

Helen of Troy

Anne of the Thousand Days

Filmography

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