Joan Morgan

Joan Morgan
Joan Morgan in 1917
Born	1 February 1905 Forest Hill, London, United Kingdom
Died	22 July 2004 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 and screenwriter.^[1]

Born in Forest Hill, London, she was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan and his wife, Evelyn. Joan Morgan died at age 99 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK in 2004. She never married.^[2]

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 later also wrote for television.

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

1. "Profile". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
2. Joan Morgan at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Joan Morgan at the Internet Movie Database