| Birth date | 1 February 1905 |
|---|---|
| Birth place | Forest Hill, London, United Kingdom |
| Death date | 22 July 2004 (aged 99) |
| Death place | Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress, Writer |
| Years active | 1914–1948 (film) |
Joan Morgan (1 February 1905 – 22 July 2004) was an English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.[1][2]
Born in Forest Hill, London, she was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan and his wife, Evelyn.[3] Joan Morgan died at age 99 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK in 2004.[3]
She became a leading British star of the 1920s, after appearing in a number of films directed by her father. Her acting career was effectively ended by the arrival of sound film in 1929 and she switched to writing, working on a number of screenplays over the following decade. She also wrote for television.
She wrote novels under her own name and through using the pen-names Iris North and Joan Wentworth Wood.[2]
Filmography
Actress
- The Cup Final Mystery (1914)
- The Great Spy Raid (1914)
- Queenie of the Circus (1914)
- The World's Desire (1915)
- Iron Justice (1915)
- The Woman Who Did (1915)
- Light (1915)
- The Reapers (1916)
- Temptation's Hour (1916)
- The Perils of Divorce (1916)
- Her Greatest Performance (1916)
- The Last Sentence (1917)
- Drink (1917)
- Because (1918)
- The Scarlet Wooing (1920)
- Two Little Wooden Shoes (1920)
- The Children of Gibeon (1920)
- Lady Noggs (1920)
- Little Dorrit (1920)
- A Lowland Cinderella (1921)
- The Road to London (1921)
- The Truants (1922)
- The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922)
- Fires of Innocence (1922)
- Swallow (1922)
- The Crimson Circle (1922)
- Dicky Monteith (1922)
- Shadow of Egypt (1924)
- The Great Well (1924)
- The Woman Tempted (1926)
- A Window in Piccadilly (1928)
- Three Men in a Cart (1929)
- Her Reputation (1931)
Screenwriter
- Contraband Love (1931)
- The Flag Lieutenant (1932)
- The Callbox Mystery (1932)
- Chelsea Life (1933)
- Mixed Doubles (1933)
- Faces (1934)
- The Minstrel Boy (1937)
- Lily of Laguna (1938)
- Olympic Honeymoon (1940)
- This Was a Woman (1948)
References
- ^ "Profile". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ^ Mutti-Mewse, Howard (31 July 2004). "Obituary: Joan Morgan". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "Morgan, Joan (1905–2004)". 94015.
External links
- Joan Morgan at IMDb