Nora Swinburne
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
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Anne of the Thousand Days
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The River
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Helen of Troy
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The End of the Affair
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The Man in Grey
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The Blind Goddess
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Quartet
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The Citadel
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Betrayed
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Christopher Columbus
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Dead of Night
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