Jill Esmond
Birthday
1908/01/26
Day of death
1990/07/20 (82 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also know as
Jill Esmond-Moore, Jill Esmond Moore
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jill Esmond (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English actress and first wife of Sir Laurence Olivier. In 1928 Esmond (billed as Jill Esmond Moore) appeared in the production of Bird in the Hand, where she met fellow cast member Laurence Olivier for the first time. Three weeks later, he proposed to her. In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour. W...Read more
Acting
(1942) Random Harvest
as Lydia
(1948) Escape
as Grace Winton
(1955) A Man Called Peter
as Mrs. Findlay
(1946) Bedelia
as Nurse Harris
(1944) Casanova Brown
as Dr. Zernerke
(1931) The Skin Game
as Jill Hillcrist
(1932) Thirteen Women
as Jo Turner
(1942) The Pied Piper
as Mrs. Cavanaugh
(1954) Night People
as Frau Schindler / Rachel Cameron
(1946) The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as The Queen Mother
(1932) State's Attorney
as Lillian Ulrich
(1944) My Pal, Wolf
as Elizabeth Munn
(1932) Is My Face Red?
as Mildred Huntington
(1932) Ladies of the Jury
as Yvette Gordon
(1931) Once a Lady
as Faith Penwick
(1933) F.P.1
as Claire Lennartz
(1942) This Above All
as Nurse Emily Harvey
(1952) Private Information
as Mrs. Charlotte Carson
(1933) No Funny Business
as Anne Moore
(1939) Prison Without Bars
as ---
(1930) The Chinese Bungalow
as Jean Sing
(1942) Journey for Margaret
as Susan Fleming
(1942) Eagle Squadron
as Phyllis
(1931) The Eternal Feminine
as Claire Lee
(1944) The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rosamund
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Jill Hillcrist (archive footage) (uncredited)