Nora Swinburne

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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.

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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