Nora Swinburne
Nora Swinburne ( born: Elinore Johnson, born July 24, 1902 in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset; † 1 May 2000, London) was a British film and stage actress.
Life
Nora Swinburne, whose father owned a company that was produced in the toy, attended the workshop Rosholme College in Weston -super- Mare.
Even as a child she was on stage, so among other things from 1914 in Clive curries theater group Young Player. Later she studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1916 followed by engagements at the Noël Coward Theatre in London, and from October 1916 at the Gielgud Theatre, also located in London. In the 1920s, she was also in three plays on Broadway in the theater; However, she had in the selection of pieces with little success, as they have already discontinued after only a few weeks.
In 1920, she stood in the silent film Saved from the Sea for the first time in front of the movie camera. In the 1920s, followed by other classic silent movie, before she was able to convince the talkies. The historical film Christopher Columbus from 1949 should be one of their first known. Only two years later, in 1951, she stood in the award-winning feature film Quo Vadis? front of the camera. In 1967, she took a starring role in the miniseries The Forsyte Saga, for which she is known to some extent still today in England. One of her last roles she played in 1969 in Anne of the Thousand Days at opposite Richard Burton. 1974, after the filming of The Early Life of Stephen Hind, Swinburne himself withdrew into private life.
Nora Swinburne was married three times. In 1924 she married actor Francis Lister, divorce followed in 1932. His second wife she was from 1934 to 1938 with Edward Ashley, also an actor by profession, married. The couple had a son, Francis. In 1946 she appeared with the actor Esmond Knight before the altar, with whom she was until his death, in February 1987, married. Through marriage with Knight Swinburne was the stepmother of actress Rosalind Knight.
Nora Swinburne died in May 2000, 97 -year-old of natural causes. Just four days after her death her second husband Edward Ashley.