Nora Swinburne
Nora Swinburne (born Elinore Johnson ; born July 24, 1902 in Bath , Bath and North East Somerset , † May 1, 2000 in London ) was a British film and theater actress .
Life
Nora Swinburne, whose father owned a toy manufacturing company, attended Rosholme College in Weston-super-Mare .
As a child she was already on stage, including from 1914 in Clive Currie's theater group Young Players . She later studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . From 1916 engagements followed at the Noël Coward Theater in London, and from October 1916 at the Globe , also located in London. In the 1920s she also appeared on the stage in three plays on Broadway ; however, she had little success in choosing the pieces, as they were discontinued after just a few weeks.
In 1920 she stood in front of the film camera for the first time in the silent film Saved from the Sea . In the 1920s, other silent film classics followed, before she was also able to convince in talkies. The 1949 historical film Christoph Columbus was to become one of her first better-known. Only two years later, in 1951, she was featured in the multi-award-winning film Quo vadis? in front of the camera. In 1967 she took on one of the leading roles in the miniseries The Forsyte Saga , for which she is partly still known in England today. She played one of her last roles in 1969 in Queen for a Thousand Days at Richard Burton's side . In 1974, after filming The Early Life of Stephen Hind , Swinburne retired into private life.
Nora Swinburne was married three times. In 1924 she married the actor Francis Lister , the divorce followed in 1932. In her second marriage, she was married from 1934 to 1938 to Edward Ashley , also an actor by profession. The two had a son, Francis. In 1946 she entered the altar with actor Esmond Knight , with whom she was married until his death in February 1987. Through her marriage to Knight, Swinburne became the stepmother of actress Rosalind Knight .
Nora Swinburne died of natural causes in May 2000 at the age of 97. Just four days after her, her second husband Edward Ashley died.
Filmography (selection)
- 1920: Branded
- 1922: The white desert
- 1937: ... tonight - Hotel Ritz (Dinner at the Ritz)
- 1943: The Man in Gray (The Man in Gray)
- 1944: Gaslight and Shadow (Fanny by Gaslight)
- 1947: Gypsy blood (Jassy)
- 1948: quartet (Quartet)
- 1948: Dance into the Abyss (Good-Time Girl)
- 1949: Christopher Columbus
- 1949: So check out who binds forever (Fools Rush In)
- 1950: Demon Uran (My Daughter Joy)
- 1951: The Power (The River)
- 1951: Quo vadis?
- 1954: Betrayed ( Betrayed )
- 1955: The End of the Affair (The End of the Affair)
- 1956: The beautiful Helena (Helen of Troy)
- 1959: Third Man on the Mountain
- 1960: Conspiracy of Hearts (Conspiracy of Hearts)
- 1960: The Small House at Allington (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1964: Decision at Midnight
- 1967: Die Forsyte Saga ( The Forsyte Saga ; television miniseries, 9 episodes)
- 1968: Interlude
- 1969: Queen for a Thousand Days (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- 1972: Up the Chastity Belt
- 1974: The Early Life of Stephen Hind (TV series, 3 episodes)
Web links
- Nora Swinburne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nora Swinburne in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Nora Swinburne in the German dubbing index
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Swinburne, Nora |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Elinore |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film and stage actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bath , Bath and North East Somerset , England , United Kingdom |
DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 2000 |
Place of death | London , England , UK |