Joan Morgan

{{Short description|British actress and screenwriter (1905–2004)}} {{for|the American author and journalist|Joan Morgan (American author)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Joan Morgan | image = Joan Morgan 1917.jpg | image_size = | caption = Morgan in 1917 | birth_name = | 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 <br /> United Kingdom | other_names = | occupation = Actress, Writer | years_active = 1914–1948 (film) }} '''Joan Morgan''' (1 February 1905 – 22 July 2004) was an English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.<ref name="bfi">{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/25714|title=Profile|publisher=ftvdb.bfi.org.uk|accessdate=12 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217233603/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/25714|archive-date=17 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Mutti-Mewse">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/31/guardianobituaries.filmnews|title=Obituary: Joan Morgan|last=Mutti-Mewse|first=Howard|date=31 July 2004|work=The Guardian|accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref>

Born in Forest Hill, London, she was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan and his wife, Evelyn.<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=94015|title=Morgan, Joan (1905–2004)}}</ref> Joan Morgan died at age 99 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK in 2004.<ref name="ODNB"/>

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.<ref name="Mutti-Mewse" />

==Filmography== ===Actress=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''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) {{div col end}}

===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)

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==External links== {{commons category|Joan Morgan}} *{{IMDb name|0604759}}

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