Joan Greenwood
Birthday: 1921-03-04
Place of Birth: Chelsea, London, England, UK
Biography: Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. Perhaps her most famous role was Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Greenwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movies
The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...
View Movie
Tom Jones
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find ...
View Movie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic...
View Movie
The Man in the White Suit
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dir...
View Movie
Moonfleet
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dor...
View Movie
The Moon-Spinners
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than ...
View Movie
Whisky Galore!
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Polit...
View Movie
Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...
View Movie
The October Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murd...
View Movie
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover...
View Movie
Mysterious Island
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific islan...
View Movie
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Léon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are....
View Movie
The Ealing Comedies
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funn...
View Movie
The Gentle Sex
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary...
View Movie
The Uncanny
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatu...
View Movie
Father Brown
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two ...
View Movie
Girl Stroke Boy
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusin...
View Movie
Stage Struck
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers t...
View Movie
Frenzy
A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife....
View Movie
Young Wives' Tale
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations ari...
View Movie
They Knew Mr. Knight
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the be...
View Movie
The White Unicorn
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden....
View Movie
The Amorous Prawn
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into...
View Movie
A Girl in a Million
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is br...
View Movie
Save Your Shillings and Smile
Tommy Trinder chooses which of the chorus line to take out. The lucky lady is the one who knows all ...
View Movie
Hest på sommerferie
The milk driver Hans loves his horse Snow White so much that he takes it on holiday to the Danish su...
View Movie
He Found a Star
A talent agent makes the mistake of becoming too involved with one of his clients....
View Movie
Country
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event,...
View Movie
The Bad Lord Byron
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to deter...
View Movie
Barbarella
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand....
View Movie
Flesh and Blood
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of...
View Movie
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus....
View Movie
Monsieur Ripois
While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest ...
View Movie
Past Caring
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefu...
View Movie
The Flame Is Love
In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, w...
View Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
View Movie
The Water Babies
Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on...
View Movie
My Wife's Family
A farce concerning the attempts of a naval officer to avoid a visit from his wife's overbearing moth...
View Movie
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Documentary on the evolution of Giant Monsters in cinema from the original 1933 King Kong onward....
View Movie
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Antho...
View Movie