June Duprez
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia June Duprez (14 May 1918 – 30 October 1984) was an English film actress. The daughter of American vaudeville performer Fred Duprez, she was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England, during an air raid in the final months of World War I. She began acting in her teens with a theatre company and made her first film, The Crimson Circle, in 1936. Her next film, The Cardinal (1936), was also a success, and she had a small role in The Spy in Black (1938), but it was her fourth film, The Four Feathers (1939), that made her a star. Her peak of success came with the landmark fantasy film The Thief of Bagdad (1940), which she made for Alexander Korda. Korda took charge of her career after this point and took her to Hollywood where he set her asking price at $50,000 per movie. However, as Duprez had not yet achieved the level of popularity in America that she had in Britain, Korda's tactic only served to place her out of contention for most roles. She appe...
Known For
Top 19 Movies
And Then There Were None
1945
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
The Four Feathers
1939
Forever and a Day
1943
Calcutta
1946
Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
1942
The Lion Has Wings
1939
The Spy in Black
1939
The Brighton Strangler
1945
None But the Lonely Heart
1944
That Brennan Girl
1946
Tiger Fangs
1943
The Cardinal
1936
The Amateur Gentleman
1936
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
They Raid by Night
1942
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943
1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports
1961
The Crimson Circle
1936