Portrait of Nora Swinburne

Nora Swinburne

Acting

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

Born: July 24, 1902

Place of Birth: Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]

Filmography

1974
Fall of Eagles

as Katharina Schratt

1972
Dead of Night

as Mariella Jubb

1972
Up the Chastity Belt

as Mistress of the Bed Chamber

1970
Manhunt

as The Countess

1969
1968
Interlude

as Mary

1967
1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Mrs. Herriton

1960
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

1951
The River

as The Mother

1950
My Daughter Joy

as Ava Constantin

1949
Christopher Columbus

as Joanna de Torres

1949
Landfall

as Admiral's Wife

1949
Marry Me

as Enid Lawson

1949
Fools Rush In

as Angela Dickson

1948
Quartet

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

1948
The Blind Goddess

as Lady Dearing

1948
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
The Man in Grey

as Mrs. Fitzherbert

1942
They Flew Alone

as ATA Commandant

1941
The Farmer's Wife

as Araminta Grey

1938
The Citadel

as Mrs. Thornton

1937
Dinner at the Ritz

as Lady Railton

1936
1935
Lend Me Your Husband

as Virgie Green

1933
Perfect Understanding

as Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice

1932
Mr. Bill the Conqueror

as Diana Trenchard

1931
Man of Mayfair

as Elaine Barclay

1931
These Charming People

as Julia Berridge

1931
Potiphar's Wife

as Lady Diana Bromford

1930
Caste

as Esther Eccles

1930
Alf's Button

as Lady Isobel Fitzpeter

1924
The Unwanted

as Joyce Mannering

1922