Biographies: June Thorburn - Actor

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A British actress, born in Karachi, Pakistan, then part of British India. June was the eldest of three children, and she spent most of her school days in boarding schools in India, where her father was a colonel in the Indian Army, thus her parents traveled extensively, and when he retired from the army, they returned to Britain. She learned to ski in the Himalayas, and in 1938, she entered and won a women's ski competition, but she ended up being disqualified because she was still considered a child. She first appeared at the West End in the early 1950s. She appeared in her first TV film, The Children of Camp Fortuna, in 1951, followed by films such as The Cruel Sea (1953), Fast and Loose (1954), and Tom Thumb (1958). She died on November 4, 1967 in a plane crash.

• 2 December 2024
• Shaimaa Saied