Norah Baring

Norah Baring
Norah Baring, 1938
Born(1905-11-26)26 November 1905
London,[1] England
Died8 February 1985(1985-02-08) (aged 79)
Surrey, England
OccupationActress
Years active1928–1934

Norah Baring (26 November 1905 – 8 February 1985),[2] born Nora Minnie Baker,[3] was an English stage and film actress best known on screen for portraying "Diana Baring" in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Murder! (1930).

Her other notable roles include the female lead in Anthony Asquith's silent thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929). Baring studied art prior to becoming an actress.[2]

Baring died in Surrey at age 79 from pneumonia.[4]

  1. ^ "Norah Baring". BFI. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Days when Newton Abbott star shone on the silver screen". Mid Devon Advertiser. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Actor's Compendium". Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  4. ^ Whitty, Stephen (1 July 2016). The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield, p. 22. ISBN 9781442251595 – via Google Books..