Jane Arden
- Acting
- October 29, 1927 · Pontypool, Wales, UK
- December 20, 1982
Biography
Jane Arden (29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a Welsh film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet. Arden was born Norah Patricia Morris at 47 Twmpath Road, Pontypool, Monmouthshire.[1] She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, and began her career in the late 1940s on television and in the cinema. She appeared in a television production of Romeo and Juliet in the late 1940s, and then starred in two British crime films: Black Memory (1947) directed by Oswald Mitchell – which provided South African-born actor Sid James with his first screen credit (billed as Sydney James) – and Richard M. Grey's A Gunman Has Escaped (1948). There are copies of both films in the BFI National Archive, but the copy of A Gunman Has Escaped is incomplete.
Known for
Filmography
- The Strauss Dynasty · Karoline
- Anti-Clock · Director, Writer
- Vibration · Director, Music
- The Other Side of the Underneath · Therapist, Director
- Separation · Jane, Writer
- Exit 19 · Maserati Passenger
- Five More · Maserati Passenger
- The Interior Decorator · Susan Carter-Carter
- Dali In New York · Self
- The Logic Game · Writer
- Six · The Woman, Writer
- In Camera · Inez
- The Wednesday Play · Inez, Susan Carter-Carter
- Armchair Theatre · Bianca, Sylvia Payton
- A Gunman Has Escaped · Jane
- Black Memory · Sally Davidson