June Thorburn

June Thorburn

Born: June 8, 1931
Died: November 4, 1967
in Karachi, British India
June Thorburn (8 June 1931 – 4 November 1967) was a popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash. She was pregnant with her third child when returning to London from Spain on Iberia Airlines Flight 062 when it crashed into Blackdown Hill, Sussex, killing all 37 people aboard.

Movies for June Thorburn...

Master Spy
Title: Master Spy
Character: Leila
Released: August 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
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The Scarlet Blade
Title: The Scarlet Blade
Character: Claire Judd
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Isabella
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
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Design for Loving
Title: Design for Loving
Character: Barbara Winters
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Follows a beatnik who becomes a top fashion model.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Kitty
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
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Don't Bother to Knock
Title: Don't Bother to Knock
Character: Stella
Released: May 28, 1961
Type: Movie
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Title: Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Character: Jenny Trevenyan
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships onto the rocks of Smugglers Bay, and murdering their crews for the sake of loot, the fishermen begin to fear for their livelihoods. In desperation, they appeal to the local magistrate Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing).
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Escort for Hire
Title: Escort for Hire
Character: Terry Kennedy
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in murder.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Title: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Character: Elizabeth
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An FBI man and an English girl solve a mystery surrounding the loss of an airliner.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: Tales of the Vikings
Released: September 8, 1959
Type: TV
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The Price of Silence
Title: The Price of Silence
Character: Audrey Trusscott
Released: June 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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Broth of a Boy
Title: Broth of a Boy
Character: Silin Lehane
Released: February 6, 1959
Type: Movie
An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.
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Tom Thumb
Title: Tom Thumb
Character: Forest Queen
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
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Rooney
Title: Rooney
Character: Doreen O' Flynn
Released: March 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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Now Let Him Go
Title: Now Let Him Go
Character: Felicity
Released: September 15, 1957
Type: Movie
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.
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Title: Shadow Squad
Released: June 17, 1957
Type: TV
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True as a Turtle
Title: True as a Turtle
Character: Jane Hudson
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.
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Touch and Go
Title: Touch and Go
Character: Peggy Fletcher
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: Movie
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
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The Hornet's Nest
Title: The Hornet's Nest
Character: Pat
Released: May 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
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Children Galore
Title: Children Galore
Character: Milly Ark
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.
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Orders Are Orders
Title: Orders Are Orders
Character: Veronica Bellamy
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
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Delayed Action
Title: Delayed Action
Character: Anne Curlew
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Barbara Wickham
Released: February 12, 1954
Type: Movie
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Character: Doris Ferraby
Released: February 24, 1953
Type: Movie
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers
Character: Arabella Allen
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...