Jane Arden (director)
| Jane Arden | |
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| Born |
Norah Patricia Morris 29 October 1927 Pontypool, Gwent, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Died | 20 December 1982 (aged 55) North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actress, film director, playwright, poet, screenwriter and songwriter |
| Spouse(s) | Philip Saville |
| Children | Sebastian and Dominic |
Jane Arden (29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a Welsh film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet.
She was born Norah Patricia Morris was born at 47 Twmpath Road, Pontypool, Gwent.
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.
Arden 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.
In the 1950s, after her first spell in the United States and following marriage (to the director Philip Saville) and children, Arden concentrated on writing for the stage and for television.
Her stage play Conscience and Desire, and Dear Liz (1954) attracted interest, and her comedy television drama Curtains For Harry (1955), starring Bobby Howes and Sydney Tafler, was transmitted on 20 October 1955 by the newly established ITV network. The latter featured the Carry On actress Joan Sims. Arden's co-writer on this piece was the American Richard Lester, who was then working as a television director.
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