Nova Pilbeam Filmography

Born:: November 15, 1919 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: 15-year-old Nova Pilbeam was already a seasoned stage veteran when she made her screen debut as the youthful kidnap victim in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). She went on to deliver a superb performance as the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey in Nine Days a Queen (1934). Her first...Read More

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The Three Weird Sisters

Actors: Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam

Synopsis: In this crime drama, three ancient, weird sisters begin planning to kill their half-brother in order to scare up the cash they need to keep their ramshackle mansion running. Poet Dylan Thomas helped write the screenplay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1948
Counterblast

Synopsis: Nazi war criminal Bruckner (Mervyn Johns) manages to escape capture at the end of WW II. Bruckner sets up shop in England, where he continues his diabolical germ-warfare experiments. Murdering an Australian physician, the regenerate Nazi assumes the dead man's identity to escape detection. His Read More

1948
Green Fingers

Actors: Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer, Harry Welchman

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a fisherman begins studying to be a doctor. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a terminal illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was Read More

1947
This Man Is Mine

Actors: Tom Walls, Jeanne de Casalis, Nova Pilbeam, Rosalyn Boulter, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: This holiday comedy is set during the Christmas of 1946 and centers upon a fellow who has returned to his native Canada to spend the Yule. When he receives a telegram from "the Fergusons," many memories of the Christmas they spent together come flooding back. The story jumps backward four years Read More

1946
Out of Chaos

1944
The Yellow Canary

Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Albert Lieven, Lucie Mannheim, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: The Yellow Canary was one of several wartime collaborations between British producer-director Herbert Wilcox and Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Wilcox's wife Anna Neagle as pretty aristocrat Sally Maitland. Having alienated many of her friends with her prewar Nazi sympathies, Sally Read More

1944
Next of Kin

Actors: Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins, David Hutcheson

Synopsis: The phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In grade-school-primer fashion, the film shows how careless talk can have a devastating and tragic effect in times of war, sometimes boomeranging on the "talker" in the form of Read More

1942
Banana Ridge

Synopsis: Another cheeky entry from the Aldwych Theatre farceurs, Banana Ridge is based on a play by Aldwych perennial Ben Travers. Alfred Drayton plays a wealthy, respected gentleman suddenly confronted with old flame Isabel Jeans. She shows up out of nowhere, claiming that her illegitimate son is his. The Read More

1941
Spring Meeting

Actors: Enid Stamp Taylor, Michael Wilding, Sr., Basil Sydney, Sarah Churchill, Nova Pilbeam

Synopsis: Based on a stage play by M. J. Farrell and John Perry, Spring Meeting stars Enid-Stamp Taylor and Michael Wilding as Tiny and Tony Stamp-Collier, mother and son. Tiny is a wealthy British courtesan who hopes to arrange a profitable marriage for son Tony. The logical choice for a bride is beautiful Read More

1941
Pastor Hall

Actors: Wilfred Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring, Eliot Makeham, Brian Worth

Synopsis: In this patriotic drama, the courage of a German pastor is presented as he makes a public stand against Nazi philosophies and actions. Unfortunately, the outspoken fellow is sent to a concentration camp where he is beaten and tortured. Still he manages to escape and give one final sermon to his Read More

1940
Cheer Boys Cheer

Synopsis: Cheer Boys Cheer is a provincial British comedy with slight Romeo and Juliet undertones. Edmund Gwenn and Moore Marriott play rival brewery owners who detest the sight of one another. Not so their children--the son of one man, the daughter of the other--who fall in love. One glance at the film's Read More

1939
Young and Innocent

Actors: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare

Synopsis: As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as they were thoroughly entertaining-which they were, without fail. Derrick De Marney finds himself in a 39 Steps situation when he is wrongly accused of murder. While a Read More

1937
Nine Days a Queen

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer, Leslie Perrins, Frank Cellier, Desmond Tester, Sybil Thorndike, Nova Pilbeam

Synopsis: This lush historical drama chronicles the brief reign of the late Henry VIII's successor, Lady Jane Grey. After only nine days on the throne, she was beheaded at the behest of the treacherous Mary Tudor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1934
Little Friend

Actors: Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam, Lydia Sherwood, Lewis Casson, Arthur Margetson, Jean Cadell

Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old British actress Nova Pilbeam (best known for her work in Hitchcock's Man Who Knew too Much and Young and Innocent) plays the title role in Little Friend. When her parents (Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood) decide to divorce, poor Felicity Hughes (Pilbeam) seeks out a way to bring Read More

1934
The Man Who Knew Too Much

Actors: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield

Synopsis: The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the international "breakthrough" film for British director Alfred Hitchcock, transforming him from merely a talented domestic filmmaker to a worldwide household name. While vacationing in Switzerland, Britons Leslie Banks and Edna Best Read More

1934