Rosamund John

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Nora Rosamund Jones

Birth Place

Tottenham, England, GB

Born

October 19, 1913

Died

October 27, 1998

Filmography

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Fame Is the Spur (1947)

Tawny Pipit (1944)

The First of the Few (1942)

Photos & Videos

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Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're In His Way

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Tatty Little Hospital Hop

Family & Companions

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Robert Donat

Companion

Actor. Together from c. 1940-1943.

Hugh Russell Lloyd

Husband

Film editor. Married in 1943; divorced in 1949.

John Silkin

Husband

Politician. Born c. 1923; married in 1950; died in 1987.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Fame Is the Spur (1947)

Tawny Pipit (1944)

The First of the Few (1942)

Life Events

1934

Made her first screen appearance in "The Secret of the Loch", a film about the Loch Ness monster

1935

Debuted on stage in a walk-on role in Stratford's Shakespeare Memorial Theatre production of "Antony and Cleopatra"

1936

Made her London stage debut playing Cleopatra's attendant in "Antony and Cleopatra" at the New Theatre

1940

Cast opposite Robert Donat in "The Devil's Disciple"; author George Bernard Shaw described her performance as that of "an escaped lunatic", critics were kinder and praised her "emotional intensity"

1942

Starred in "The First of the Few" opposite Leslie Howard

1943

Acted in "The Gentle Sex" produced, co-directed and narrated by Leslie Howard; took star billing in "The Lamp Still Burns", produced by Howard just before his death

1945

Starred in "The Way to the Stars", considered her finest wartime role

1947

Resumed her stage career

1956

Made her final film appearance in "operration Murder"

Videos

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're In His Way Part of another elaborate set-piece in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat production, the hospital dance, Dr Eden (Leo Genn) counsels distraught nurse Esther (Rosamund John) about his ex-lover, her deceased mother, then nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) seethes toward Dr. Barnes (Trevor Howard) whose fianceè nurse Freddi (Sally Gray) becomes his next partner, in Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Tatty Little Hospital Hop Interlocking exposition in a complex post-operative scene, surgeon Eden (Leo Genn) speaks with the engaged-but-arguing anesthetist Barnes and nurse Linley (Trevor Howard, Sally Gray), then nurse Woods (Megs Jenkins) and overseeing Sister Bates (Judy Campbell), nurse Esther Sanson (Rosamund John) also involved, early in the acclaimed English wartime murder mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He Was The First To Die Alastair Sim narrates as Inspector Cockrill and Moore Marriott features as postman Higgins, followed by a roll call introducing Leo Genn, Megs Jenkins, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell, Sally Gray and Trevor Howard, then Ronald Adam as the administrator Dr. White, all at an English military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery, in the first production completed at London’s Pinewood Studios after the end of WWII, Green For Danger, 1946.

First Of The Few -- (Movie Clip) Strange Ideas Aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell (producer and director Leslie Howard) with wife Diana (Rosamund John) en route to celebrations after his plane wins a race, bosses Bride and Higgins (Roland Culver, David Horne) thwarting his plans, in First Of The Few, 18942.

Gentle Sex, The -- (Movie Clip) Frozen Virtue British Auxiliary recruits on a final night at training, then chat in the barracks, Joyce Howard as blonde Anne, Joan Greenwood as diminutive Betty and Jean Gillie as spunky Dot, Barbara Waring as stern Joan, Lilli Palmer as Czech Erna, in director Leslie Howard's The Gentle Sex, 1943.

Companions

Robert Donat

Companion

Actor. Together from c. 1940-1943.

Hugh Russell Lloyd

Husband

Film editor. Married in 1943; divorced in 1949.

John Silkin

Husband

Politician. Born c. 1923; married in 1950; died in 1987.

Bibliography

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