Cast & creator
Nora Swinburne
Best known for BBC Play of the Month, ITV Playhouse, Drama 61-67
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: Norah Swinburne, Elinore Johnson, Leonora Mary Johnson
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television credits
65
1921–1974 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (65)
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BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Herriton
1965
ITV Playhouse
Lavender Collingham
1967Drama 61-67
Mrs. Phillips
1961
Fall of Eagles
Katharina Schratt
1974
Manhunt
The Countess
1970
The Forsyte Saga
'Aunt Hester' Forsyte
1967The Jazz Age
Lady Cavan
1968
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lady Crabbe
1967
Quo Vadis
Pomponia
1951
Helen of Troy
Hecuba
1956
Dead of Night
Mariella Jubb
1972
Anne of the Thousand Days
Lady Kingston
1969
The River
The Mother
1951
Perilous Assignment
Self
1959
Betrayed
The Scarf's Mother
1954
Third Man on the Mountain
Frau Matt
1959
The Man in Grey
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1943
The Citadel
Mrs. Thornton
1938The Small House at Allington
Mrs. Dale
1960
The End of the Affair
Mrs Bertram
1955
Caste
Esther Eccles
1930
Interlude
Mary
1968
The Blind Goddess
Lady Dearing
1948
Lend Me Your Husband
Virgie Green
1935
Fanny by Gaslight
Mary Hopwood
1944
Dinner at the Ritz
Lady Railton
1937
Marry Me
Enid Lawson
1949
Up the Chastity Belt
Mistress of the Bed Chamber
1972The Bad Lord Byron
Lady Jersey
1949
The Farmer's Wife
Araminta Grey
1941
They Flew Alone
ATA Commandant
1942
Jassy
Mrs. Hatton
1947
Good-Time Girl
Miss Mills
1948The Autumn of Pride
Peggy Naylor
1921Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?
Mrs. Prentice
1968
They Knew Mr. Knight
Celia Blake
1946
Conspiracy of Hearts
Sister Tia
1960A Voice Said Goodnight
Joan Creighton
1932
Potiphar's Wife
Lady Diana Bromford
1931
My Daughter Joy
Ava Constantin
1950
Decision at Midnight
1963
Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Diana Trenchard
1932
Christopher Columbus
Joanna de Torres
1949It Happened to One Man
Alice Quair
1940
Quartet
Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
1948
These Charming People
Julia Berridge
1931
Perfect Understanding
Lady Stephanie Fitzmaurice
1933
Man of Mayfair
Elaine Barclay
1931His Grace Gives Notice
Cynthia Bannock
1924
Fools Rush In
Angela Dickson
1949
The White Desert
Karin
1922
The Strange Awakening
Mrs. Friend
1958The Fortune of Christina McNab
Christina McNab
1921
Jury's Evidence
Mary Trent
1936
Alf's Button
Lady Isobel Fitzpeter
1930The Royal Four-Flusher
1930The Gay Adventure
Fay d'Allary
1936The Gong Game
Mrs. Breeze
1965The Office Wife
Anne
1934
Landfall
Admiral's Wife
1949Dear Octopus
Edna
1943White Face
Inez Landor
1932Allein im Urwald
Lydia Gyldendal
1922
Lonely Road
Anne
1936
The Unwanted
Joyce Mannering
1924