Kathleen Byron - Early Life

Early Life

Byron was born Kathleen Elizabeth Fell in West Ham – now in the London Borough of Newham. Her father was a railway clerk who later became a Labour mayor of the County Borough of East Ham.

She attended the local grammar school and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her film debut in Carol Reed's The Young Mr Pitt (1942), in which she had two lines as a maid opposite Robert Donat.

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