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person_profile-Joyce Howard

Joyce Howard Died at age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Joyce Howard

Date of Birth:

Feb 28, 1922

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Nov 23, 2010

Biography of

Joyce Howard

    Joyce Howard (28 February 1922 in London – 23 November 2010 in Santa Monica, California) was an English actress, writer, and film executive.

    After studying at RADA, she was spotted by film director Anthony Asquith in a play at London's Embassy Theatre. He cast the 19-year-old in Freedom Radio (1941), and starring roles in films followed, including opposite James Mason in The Night Has Eyes and They Met in the Dark, the former winning her rave reviews.

    She was also active in theatre, including Romeo and Juliet at the Old Vic and in A Streetcar Named Desire. She performed in London throughout World War II, even as Nazis were bombing the city. In 1950, after 13 films, she more or less retired from acting to raise her three children by actor Basil Sydney. Howard also began a second career as a writer. She wrote three well-received novels, Two Persons Singular (1960), A Private View (1961) and Going On (2000). She also wrote plays, including Broken Silence, which was produced by the BBC. After her divorce from Sydney, Howard married American psychoanalyst Joel Shor, and moved to California in 1964.

    Although the couple eventually separated, Howard remained in California. To support her family as a single mother, she embarked on a third career as a story analyst for network television. She was promoted to executive and story editor at Paramount Pictures and Paramount TV, eventually becoming responsible for property acquisition and development.

    She also continued to write for television and wrote original treatments for the miniseries The Whiteoaks and Picasso's Painted Ladies. At the request of Henry Miller's widow, Howard collated, edited and wrote the introduction to Letters by Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller (1986).

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Joyce Howard

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Filmography of

Joyce Howard

Found 12 Movies in total

Hot Summer Night

Judy Gomez ( Actor )

... 1959

Shadow of the Past

Lady in Black ( Actor )

... 1950

Mrs. Fitzherbert

Maria Fitzherbert ( Actor )

... 1947

Appointment with Crime

Carol Dane ( Actor )

... 1946

They Knew Mr. Knight

Freda Blake ( Actor )

... 1946

They Met in the Dark

Laura Verity ( Actor )

... 1943

The Gentle Sex

Anne Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1942

The Night Has Eyes

Marian Ives ( Actor )

... 1942

Back-Room Boy

Betty ( Actor )

... 1942

Love on the Dole

Helen ( Actor )

... 1941

Freedom Radio

Elly Schmidt ( Actor )

... 1941