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June Thorburn

Date of birth: 1931-06-08

Place of birth: Karachi, British India

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Patricia June Thubron-Smith

June Thorburn

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.

Movie Credits

Design for Loving
3

Design for Loving

1962-03-01

Follows a beatnik artist who becomes a top fashion designer.

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
3.3

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

1960-11-30

Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the tow

Now Let Him Go
0

Now Let Him Go

1957-09-15

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabb

The Scarlet Blade
2.7

The Scarlet Blade

1963-09-01

A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters roy

Tom Thumb
3.1

Tom Thumb

1958-12-04

A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.

Orders Are Orders
3.2

Orders Are Orders

1954-10-01

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a l

Fast and Loose
3.1

Fast and Loose

1954-02-12

An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn togethe

The Hornet's Nest
2.4

The Hornet's Nest

1955-05-13

Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an emp

Delayed Action
2.6

Delayed Action

1954-07-01

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the ha

Fury at Smugglers' Bay
2.9

Fury at Smugglers' Bay

1961-01-01

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupati

Master Spy
3

Master Spy

1964-08-19

Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attem

The Cruel Sea
3.5

The Cruel Sea

1953-02-24

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp

Touch and Go
3.1

Touch and Go

1955-10-02

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the fir

Don't Bother to Knock
2.3

Don't Bother to Knock

1961-05-28

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and ma

Broth of a Boy
0.5

Broth of a Boy

1959-02-06

An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.

Transatlantic
0

Transatlantic

1960-01-01

An FBI man and an English girl solve a mystery surrounding the loss of an airliner.

Escort for Hire
0

Escort for Hire

1960-12-01

An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in mur

Children Galore
2

Children Galore

1955-02-01

As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local

The Price of Silence
2.9

The Price of Silence

1959-06-06

Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up w

Anna Karenina
3.3

Anna Karenina

1961-11-03

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w

True as a Turtle
3.5

True as a Turtle

1957-02-01

Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffer

Rooney
2.8

Rooney

1958-03-24

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman

The Pickwick Papers
3.4

The Pickwick Papers

1952-11-14

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report b

Wuthering Heights
5

Wuthering Heights

1962-05-10

Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a ve

The Spanish Sword
0

The Spanish Sword

1962-01-01

A knight protects the treasure of Henry III of England from a thieving baron.

Cinderella
0

Cinderella

1958-12-26

Film "Cinderella" based on the novel by Charles Perrault.