Born
1902-07-24 (age 123)
Birthplace
Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
Known For
Acting
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
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Jury's Evidence
as Mary Trent
1936
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Lady Kingston
1969
Quo Vadis
as Pomponia
1951
Decision at Midnight
1963
The Man in Grey
as Mrs. Fitzherbert
1943
Helen of Troy
as Hecuba
1956
The River
as The Mother
1951
Betrayed
as The Scarf's Mother
1954
The Citadel
as Mrs. Thornton
1938
The End of the Affair
as Mrs Bertram
1955
The Strange Awakening
as Mrs. Friend
1958
They Flew Alone
as ATA Commandant
1942
My Daughter Joy
as Ava Constantin
1950
Christopher Columbus
as Joanna de Torres
1949
Perilous Assignment
as Self
1959
Perfect Understanding
as Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice
1933
Lonely Road
as Anne
1936
The Blind Goddess
as Lady Dearing
1948
Interlude
as Mary
1968
They Knew Mr. Knight
as Celia Blake
1946
TV Appearances
Fall of Eagles
as Katharina Schratt
1974
Manhunt
as The Countess
1970
BBC Play of the Month
as Mrs. Herriton
1965
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as Lady Crabbe
1967
The Jazz Age
as Lady Cavan
1968
The Small House at Allington
as Mrs. Dale
1960
Dead of Night
as Mariella Jubb
1972
Drama 61-67
as Mrs. Phillips
1961
ITV Playhouse
as Lavender Collingham
1967