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Kathleen Elizabeth Fell (11 January 1921 – 18 January 2009), known professionally as Kathleen Byron, was an English actress.
Kathleen Byron. Actress: Black Narcissus. Kathleen Byron trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, beginning her work in the movies soon after she finished her training. Her early work with Michael Powell made her name in the UK.
Jan 20, 2009 · Few actresses are so identified with one role as Kathleen Byron, who will always be remembered foremost as the passionate, wildly neurotic nun Ruth in the Powell-Pressburger masterpiece, Black...
Kathleen Byron. Actress: Black Narcissus. Kathleen Byron trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, beginning her work in the movies soon after she finished her training. Her early work with Michael Powell made her name in the UK.
Kathleen Elizabeth Fell (11 January 1921 – 18 January 2009), known professionally as Kathleen Byron, was a British actress of stage, screen and television.
Kathleen Byron, best-remembered as the sex-obsessed nun in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, died on Jan. 18. She was 88 (or 86, depending on the source) and is supposed to have been in poor health for several years.
Jan 20, 2009 · Kathleen Byron, who died on January 18 aged 88, was an English actress of distinctive but somewhat baleful features which seemed to limit her to playing neurotics, murderesses and the...
Nov 21, 2013 · A Tribute to Kathleen Byron. Powell and Pressburger scholars and Kathleen’s family pay tribute to the actress best known as the disturbed Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus, who also starred in A Matter of Life and Death and The Small Back Room.
British actress Kathleen Byron made her first film Young Mr. Pitt in 1941, shortly after completing her training at the Old Vic. At first a standard-issue ingenue, Byron displayed a dominant willfulness that resulted in roles as schemers and prevaricators.
Described by Michael Powell as looking "secret" and "witty", Kathleen Byron brought a mysterious sensuality to British films as rare as it was underused. As Sister Ruth, the nun who goes mad with lust in the Himalayas in Black Narcissus (d. Powell and Pressburger, 1947), she created some uniquely erotic moments in an often genteel cinema.
