Nora Swinburne
Birthday: 1902-07-24
Place of Birth: Bath, 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
Movies
Jury's Evidence
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder c...
View Movie
Anne of the Thousand Days
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...
View Movie
Quo Vadis
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
View Movie
Decision at Midnight
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain....
View Movie
The Man in Grey
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage ac...
View Movie
Helen of Troy
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Hele...
View Movie
The River
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual...
View Movie
Betrayed
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initial...
View Movie
The Citadel
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first...
View Movie
The End of the Affair
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in lov...
View Movie
The Strange Awakening
Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a docto...
View Movie
They Flew Alone
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t...
View Movie
My Daughter Joy
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of ...
View Movie
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his p...
View Movie
Perilous Assignment
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behi...
View Movie
Perfect Understanding
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement...
View Movie
Lonely Road
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interru...
View Movie
The Blind Goddess
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H...
View Movie
Interlude
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor....
View Movie
They Knew Mr. Knight
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the be...
View Movie
Jassy
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued ...
View Movie
Lend Me Your Husband
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital far...
View Movie
Conspiracy of Hearts
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp...
View Movie
Third Man on the Mountain
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small...
View Movie
Fanny by Gaslight
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father...
View Movie
Alf's Button
A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed....
View Movie
The Gong Game
Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failu...
View Movie
The Royal Four-Flusher
Eddie, a modern man, suddenly finds himself in the palace in an ancient, mythical kingdom. This does...
View Movie
Fools Rush In
Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost f...
View Movie
The Bad Lord Byron
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to deter...
View Movie
The Farmer's Wife
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent e...
View Movie
The Office Wife
“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary...
View Movie
His Grace Gives Notice
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a marri...
View Movie
The Autumn of Pride
A man buys a farm to stop his rich father from evicting the farmer's daughter....
View Movie
The Fortune of Christina McNab
An engaged to marry duke causes an infatuated heiress to return to her soldier sweetheart....
View Movie
Dear Octopus
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the f...
View Movie
Caste
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WW...
View Movie
Potiphar's Wife
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His in...
View Movie
Marry Me
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his...
View Movie
Man of Mayfair
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Fil...
View Movie
White Face
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East Lond...
View Movie
Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a Britis...
View Movie
Quartet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...
View Movie
Good-Time Girl
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in p...
View Movie
Up the Chastity Belt
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur...
View Movie
The White Desert
About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Swed...
View Movie
Dinner at the Ritz
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's co...
View Movie