Nova Pilbeam

Nova Pilbeam

Known for

Acting

Born

November 15, 1919

Birthplace

Wimbledon, London, England, UK

Died

July 17, 2015 (aged 95)

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nova Margery Pilbeam (15 November 1919 – 17 July 2015) was an English film and stage actress. Pilbeam gained attention as a child stage actress. This led to much work in her teen years. She appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), in which she plays a girl who is abducted, following this with her lead performance as Lady Jane Grey in Tudor Rose (1936). She had a starring role in Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937), which she regarded as "the sunniest film I was involved with", and formed a constructive professional relationship with Hitchcock.

She appeared in an early British television drama in 1939. That year David O. S...

Best known work

The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
Young and Innocent
Young and Innocent
1937
Yellow Canary
Yellow Canary
1943
Pastor Hall
Pastor Hall
1940
The Next of Kin
The Next of Kin
1942
Tudor Rose
Tudor Rose
1936
Counterblast
Counterblast
1948
Cheer Boys Cheer
Cheer Boys Cheer
1939
Spring Meeting
Spring Meeting
1941
Green Fingers
Green Fingers
1947

Filmography

  1. 1948

    Counterblast

    as Tracy Heart

  2. 1948

    The Three Weird Sisters

    as Claire Prentiss

  3. 1947

    Green Fingers

    as Alexandra Baxter

  4. 1946

    This Man Is Mine

    as Phoebe Ferguson

  5. 1944

    Out of Chaos

    as Narrator (voice)

  6. 1943

    Yellow Canary

    as Betty Maitland

  7. 1942

    The Next of Kin

    as Beppie Leemans

  8. 1942

    Banana Ridge

    as Cora Pound

  9. 1941

    Spring Meeting

    as Baby Furze

  10. 1940

    Pastor Hall

    as Christine Hall

  11. 1939

    Cheer Boys Cheer

    as Margaret Greenleaf

  12. 1939

  13. 1937

    Young and Innocent

    as Erica Burgoyne

  14. 1936

    Tudor Rose

    as Lady Jane Grey

  15. 1934

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    as Betty Lawrence

  16. 1934

    Little Friend

    as Felicity Hughes

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