Manora Alice Thew (12 April 1891 – 12 April 1987) was an English actress.
She was born in
Negapatam,
Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...
,
British India, the daughter of Alice Maude ''née'' Turner (1865–1925) and Cuthbert Harrison Thew (1859–1928). In 1911 she was a student at a boarding school in
Frimley in
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
. In 1915 she married John Davidson (1890–1954), a medical doctor, and with him had a daughter, Manora Joy Davidson (1920–1999). After the birth of her daughter she largely retired from acting. In 1939 she and her family were living at 140 Manchester Road in
Sheffield.
Manora Thew died in
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England in 1987. In her will she left £116,050.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Manora Alice Davidson 1987 - Ancestry.com
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Partial filmography
* ''The Folly of Desire
''The Shulamite'' is an Edwardian drama, or melodrama, based on a novel of the same name. It played in London and New York in 1906 with Lena Ashwell in the lead role. It tells of a South African farmer's wife trapped in an unhappy marriage who fa ...
'' (1915)
* ''The Shulamite
''The Shulamite'' is an Edwardian drama, or melodrama, based on a novel of the same name. It played in London and New York in 1906 with Lena Ashwell in the lead role. It tells of a South African farmer's wife trapped in an unhappy marriage who fa ...
'' (1915)
* '' Honour in Pawn'' (1916)
* '' Arsène Lupin'' (1916)
* ''The New Clown
''The New Clown'' is a 1916 British silent comedy film directed by Fred Paul and starring James Welch, Manora Thew and Richard Lindsay. It was based on a play by H. M. Paull. The screenplay concerns an aristocrat who runs away to join the ci ...
'' (1916)
* '' The Broken Melody'' (1916)
* ''His Daughter's Dilemma
''His Daughter's Dilemma'' is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Ralph Dewsbury and starring Ben Webster, Manora Thew and Philip Hewland.Palmer p.351
Cast
* Ben Webster as Bernard Venn
* Manora Thew as Madeleine Kingsley
* ...
'' (1916)
* ''The Grit of a Jew
''The Grit of a Jew'' is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Augustus Yorke, Manora Thew and Fred Groves.Murphy p.179
Cast
* Augustus Yorke as Moses Levi
* Manora Thew as Leah
* Fred Groves as Russell ...
'' (1917)
* ''Not Negotiable
''Not Negotiable'' is a 1918 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Julian Royce, Manora Thew and Gregory Scott.
Cast
* Julian Royce ... John Carslake
* Manora Thew ... Dorothy Saville
* Gregory Scott ... Claude Savi ...
'' (1918)
* '' The Man and the Moment'' (1918)
* '' Once Upon a Time'' (1918)
* '' The Splendid Folly'' (1919)
* ''When It Was Dark
''When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy'' (1903) is a best selling Christian novel by English author Guy Thorne, in which a plot to destroy Christianity by falsely disproving the Resurrection of Jesus leads to moral disorder and chaos ...
'' (1919)
* '' The Polar Star'' (1919)
* '' The Homemaker'' (1919)
* '' Fettered'' (1919)
* '' The Toilers'' (1919)
* '' At the Villa Rose'' (1920)
* ''A Romance of Old Baghdad
''A Romance of Old Baghdad'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Matheson Lang, Manora Thew and Roy Travers. It is an adaptation of the novel ''Miss Haroun al Rashid'' by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. In ninet ...
'' (1922)
References
External links
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1891 births
1987 deaths
English film actresses
English silent film actresses
20th-century English actresses
British people in colonial India
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