
Birthday:
07-24-1902
Deathday:
05-01-2000 (97 years)
Birthplace:
Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Jury's Evidence
Act like Mary Trent
event1936
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'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Act like Lady Kingston
event1969 star_border 7.1
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Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Quo Vadis
Act like Pomponia
event1951 star_border 7.1
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After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Decision at Midnight
event1963 star_border 6
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Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
The Man in Grey
Act like Mrs. Fitzherbert
event1943 star_border 6
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After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Helen of Troy
Act like Hecuba
event1956 star_border 6.2
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Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
The River
Act like The Mother
event1951 star_border 7.2
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Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
Betrayed
Act like The Scarf's Mother
event1954 star_border 5.7
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Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
The Citadel
Act like Mrs. Thornton
event1938 star_border 6.3
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Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
The End of the Affair
Act like Mrs Bertram
event1955 star_border 5.7
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During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
The Strange Awakening
Act like Mrs. Friend
event1958 star_border 6.2
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Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a doctor and several women tell him he's a missing heir who's inherited millions. But Peter soon suspects something is not quite right with their story. He sets out to learn the truth before he's forced to sign a document that purportedly finalizes the transfer of the estate. This drama is based on Hugh Wheeler's novel Puzzle for Fiends.
They Flew Alone
Act like ATA Commandant
event1942 star_border 6
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The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
My Daughter Joy
Act like Ava Constantin
event1950
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A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
Christopher Columbus
Act like Joanna de Torres
event1949 star_border 5.7
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Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Perilous Assignment
Act like Self
event1959 star_border 10
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"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".
Perfect Understanding
Act like Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice
event1933 star_border 6.1
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A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Lonely Road
Act like Lady Anne
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
The Blind Goddess
Act like Lady Dearing
event1948 star_border 5.6
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Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Interlude
Act like Mary
event1968 star_border 5.8
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A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
They Knew Mr. Knight
Act like Celia Blake
event1946 star_border 5.7
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After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Jassy
Act like Mrs. Hatton
event1947 star_border 5.4
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In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
Lend Me Your Husband
Act like Virgie Green
event1935 star_border 5
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A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Conspiracy of Hearts
Act like Sister Tia
event1960 star_border 6.7
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In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.
Third Man on the Mountain
Act like Frau Matt
event1959 star_border 6.7
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Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a novel by James Ramsey Ullman, entitled "Banner In The Sky". In the middle of the 19th century in Switzerland, a famous British mountaineer, Captain John Winter, wanted to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.
Fanny by Gaslight
Act like Mary Hopwood
event1944 star_border 5.7
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Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
The Unwanted
Act like Joyce Mannering
event1924
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A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
Alf's Button
Act like Lady Isobel Fitzpeter
event1930 star_border 9.5
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A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
The Gong Game
Act like Mrs. Breeze
event1965
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Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big trouble.
The Royal Four-Flusher
event1930 star_border 1
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Eddie, a modern man, suddenly finds himself in the palace in an ancient, mythical kingdom. This does not change his attitude or habits and, while pursuing a fair maid in the castle, he catches the attention of the Queen and forces him to make love to her. He slaps the King on the rump, thinking he is the Queen, and is sentenced to be beheaded.
Fools Rush In
Act like Angela Dickson
event1949 star_border 6
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Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul turns out to be just the opposite when he arrives for Pamela's wedding.
The Bad Lord Byron
Act like Lady Jersey
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
The Farmer's Wife
Act like Araminta Grey
event1941 star_border 6
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Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
The Office Wife
Act like Anne
event1934
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“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.” - BFI.
Allein im Urwald
Act like Lydia Gyldendal
event1922
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Colonialist adventure film with wild animals.
His Grace Gives Notice
Act like Cynthia Bannock
event1924
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A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
The Autumn of Pride
Act like Peggy Naylor
event1921
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A man buys a farm to stop his rich father from evicting the farmer's daughter.
The Fortune of Christina McNab
Act like Christina McNab
event1921
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An engaged to marry duke causes an infatuated heiress to return to her soldier sweetheart.
It Happened to One Man
Act like Alice Quair
event1940
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A film directed by Paul L. Stein.
Dear Octopus
Act like Edna
event1943
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Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
Caste
Act like Esther Eccles
event1930
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The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws.
Potiphar's Wife
Act like Lady Diana Bromford
event1931
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'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
Marry Me
Act like Enid Lawson
event1949 star_border 4.3
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The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Man of Mayfair
Act like Elaine Barclay
event1931
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'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
These Charming People
Act like Julia Berridge
event1931
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A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
White Face
Act like Inez Landor
event1932
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A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Act like Diana Trenchard
event1932
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A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker
A Voice Said Goodnight
Act like Joan Creighton
event1932
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A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Landfall
Act like Admiral's Wife
event1949 star_border 7
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A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Quartet
Act like Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine
event1948 star_border 6
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Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Good-Time Girl
Act like Miss Mills
event1948 star_border 5.9
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Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Up the Chastity Belt
Act like The Mistress Of The Bed Chamber - Lady-In-Waiting
event1972 star_border 3.8
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A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
The White Desert
Act like Karin
event1922 star_border 7
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About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Two shipmates, Björn and Sigurd, survive the chaos and cold white desert.
Dinner at the Ritz
Act like Lady Railton
event1937 star_border 5.5
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The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Fall of Eagles
Act like Katharina Schratt (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 6.8
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"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
Dead of Night
Act like Mariella Jubb (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.6
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Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—"The Exorcism", "Return Flight", and "A Woman Sobbing"—are known to survive in the BBC's archives. Another programme made by the Dead of Night production team under Innes Lloyd, The Stone Tape, intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.
BBC Four rebroadcast "The Exorcism" on 22 December 2007.
Manhunt
Act like The Countess (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.5
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Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
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