Kathleen Elizabeth Fell (11 January 1921 – 18 January 2009), known professionally as Kathleen Byron, was an English actress.

Kathleen Byron. Actress: Black Narcissus. Kathleen Byron trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, beginning her work in the movies soon after she finished her training.

Kathleen Byron. Actress: Black Narcissus. Kathleen Byron trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, beginning her work in the movies soon after she finished her training.

Jan 20, 2009 · Few actresses are so identified with one role as Kathleen Byron, who will always be remembered foremost as the passionate, wildly neurotic nun Ruth in the Powell-Pressburger masterpiece, Black...

Kathleen Elizabeth Fell was born on January 11, 1921, in West London, England, to a railway clerk. Before making her film debut in 1938, she trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Marriage and Move to the US. In 1943, she married USAAF pilot Lieutenant John Daniel Bowen and moved to the United States.

Kathleen Byron, best-remembered as the sex-obsessed nun in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, died on Jan. 18. She was 88 (or 86, depending on the source).

Dec 30, 2020 · Byron was a largely obscure figure when she passed away in 2009 at age 88. If she was remembered, it was for Black Narcissus – in which she created a holy show as a...

Jan 20, 2009 · Kathleen Byron, who died on January 18 aged 88, was an English actress of distinctive but somewhat baleful features which seemed to limit her to playing neurotics, murderesses and the spiteful.

Kathleen Elizabeth Fell (11 January 1921 – 18 January 2009), known professionally as Kathleen Byron, was a British actress of stage, screen and television.

Kathleen Byron's film career consisted mainly of nicely-judged cameos as slightly snotty upper-middle-class women. She ploughed the same furrow as the likes of Ambrosine Phillpotts and Everley Gregg and would have much the same comfy place in film history but for one role: the iconic Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus .