Joan Ritz

{{Short description|British actress (c.1882–1956)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Joan Ritz''' (c. 1882 – 6 November 1956) was a British actress of the silent era.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/3515 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | RITZ, Joan |access-date=2011-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023222109/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/3515 |archive-date=2012-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She was born '''Jessie Rihll''' in West Ham, London, UK and died in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. From 1912 to her death she was married to Percy Nash, who directed numerous of the silent films in which she acted.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ince |first1=Bernard |title='For the Love of the Art': The life and work of Percy Nash, film producer and director of the silent era |journal=Film History |date=2007 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=292–301 |doi=10.2979/FIL.2007.19.3.292 |s2cid=191469548 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236797963}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Enoch Arden'' (1914) * ''The Harbour Lights'' (1914) * ''In the Ranks'' (1914) * ''The Coal King'' (1915) * ''A Rogue's Wife'' (1915) * ''Flying from Justice'' (1915) * ''The Little Minister'' (1915) * ''The Romany Rye'' (1915) * ''Darby and Joan'' (1920) * ''Rodney Stone'' (1920) * ''The Croxley Master'' (1921)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0728876}}

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