June Thorburn
Also Known As: Patricia June Thubron-Smith
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karachi, British India
Birthday: June 08, 1931
Deathday: November 04, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Design for Loving
Overview: Follows a beatnik who becomes a top fashion model.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-30
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Now Let Him Go
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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The Scarlet Blade
Overview: A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, 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.
Genres: Adventure War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Tom Thumb
Overview: A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
Genres: Music Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Orders Are Orders
Overview: An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Fast and Loose
Overview: An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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The Hornet's Nest
Overview: 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]
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-13
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Delayed Action
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Overview: 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).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Master Spy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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The Cruel Sea
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-24
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Touch and Go
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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Don't Bother to Knock
Overview: 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...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-28
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Broth of a Boy
Overview: An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-06
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Escort for Hire
Overview: An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Transatlantic
Overview: An FBI man and an English girl solve a mystery surrounding the loss of an airliner.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Children Galore
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-01
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The Price of Silence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-06
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Anna Karenina
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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True as a Turtle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Rooney
Overview: The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-24
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The Pickwick Papers
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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The Spanish Sword
Overview: A knight protects the treasure of Henry III of England from a thieving baron.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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