Rosamund John

Rosamund John (19 October 1913 – 27 October 1998), born Nora Rosamund Jones, was an English film and stage actress.

Early life

Nora Jones was born and brought up in Tottenham in north London, the daughter of Frederick Henry Jones, a wine merchant's clerk, and his wife, Edith Elizabeth (née Elliott).

Career

At the age of nineteen, John was introduced to actor–director Milton Rosmer, who cast her in several minor stage roles before casting her in his film The Secret of the Loch (1934). This led to her being cast in Howard's next film as a director, The Gentle Sex (1943). Howard cast John in her next film The Lamp Still Burns (1943), which he produced, but he was killed during the film's production when his plane was shot down returning from Lisbon.

John co-starred in Anthony Asquith's wartime drama The Way to the Stars (1945), following which she appeared in the medical wartime thriller Green for Danger (1946). 1947 saw her star with James Mason in The Upturned Glass (1947), with Michael Redgrave in the Boulting Brothers' political drama Fame is the Spur (1947) and with Patricia Roc in the drama When the Bough Breaks (1947).

She died at a nursing home in Clapham, London in 1998, aged 85.

Filmography