June Tripp

Who was June Tripp?

June Tripp, sometimes known just by her screen name, June, was a British actress.

Born June Howard-Tripp in London, she worked mainly on stage. She made a handful of films, mostly in the silent era. Her most notable screen role was in the silent Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog opposite Ivor Novello.

In 1929, she married John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde and left theatre and film to become a socialite, living at the Inverclyde seat Castle Wemyss. She was divorced in 1933 and returned to the stage. In 1937 she married the American businessman Edward Hillman Jr, but was again divorced in 1939. She and Hillman later remarried. She later appeared in a cameo role in Forever and a Day. She provided the narration on the Jean Renoir film The River. She retired from acting in the 1950s and in 1951 became a US citizen. She published her biography in 1960.