Joan Morgan Explained

Joan Morgan
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
Yearsactive: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.

Filmography

Actress

Screenwriter

References

  1. Web site: Profile. ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 12 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20131217233603/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/25714. 17 December 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: Obituary: Joan Morgan. Mutti-Mewse. Howard. 31 July 2004. The Guardian. 18 December 2016.
  3. 94015. Morgan, Joan (1905–2004).