June Thorburn
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: June 8, 1931
Place of Birth: Karachi, British India
Known For
True as a Turtle
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.
The Cruel Sea
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
The Pickwick Papers
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...
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
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.
Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
The World of Hammer
The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sidaway for Channel 4. Initially broadcast from 12 August to 4 November 1994, the series is narrated by English actor and frequent Hammer collaborator Oliver Reed.
Orders Are Orders
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
Tom Thumb
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
Fast and Loose
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Touch and Go
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.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Leila
as Claire Judd
as Lady Diane
as Kitty
as Stella
as Jenny Trevenyan
as Elizabeth
as Audrey Trusscott
as Cinderella
as Forest Queen
as Doreen O' Flynn
as Felicity
as Jane Hudson
as Peggy Fletcher
as Pat
as Milly Ark
as Veronica Bellamy
as Anne Curlew
as Barbara Wickham
as Doris Ferraby
as Arabella Allen