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Kathleen Byron (11 January 1921 – 18 January 2009) was a British actress of stage, screen and television. Byron was born Kathleen Elizabeth Fell in West Ham – now in the London Borough of Newham. Her father was a railway clerk who later became a Labour mayor of the County Borough of East Ham. She attended the local grammar school and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her film debut in Carol Reed's The Young Mr Pitt (1942), in which she had two lines as a maid opposite Robert Donat. In 1943, she married a USAAF pilot, Lt. John Daniel Bowen, and moved to the... MORE

Kathleen Byron (11 January 1921 – 18 January 2009) was a British actress of stage, screen and television. Byron was born Kathleen Elizabeth Fell in West Ham – now in the London Borough of Newham. Her father was a railway clerk who later became a Labour mayor of the County Borough of East Ham. She attended the local grammar school and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her film debut in Carol Reed's The Young Mr Pitt (1942), in which she had two lines as a maid opposite Robert Donat. In 1943, she married a USAAF pilot, Lt. John Daniel Bowen, and moved to the United States. The director Michael Powell persuaded her to return to England where she was to make her most successful films. She was best known for her roles in the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: as an angel in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), as leading lady opposite David Farrar in The Small Back Room (1949), and as the disturbed Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus (1947). Byron was romantically linked with Michael Powell around the time the film was made; he was named as co-respondent when she was divorced in 1950. Her success in Black Narcissus led her to Hollywood, which resulted with a LESS