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Joan Maude

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Joan Maude
photograph by Madame Yevonde, 1932
Born(1908-01-16)16 January 1908
Died28 September 1998(1998-09-28) (aged 90)
Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK
Occupationactress
Years active1920s-1950s

Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s.[1] She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.[2]

The daughter of actors Charles Maude and Nancy Price, Maude's great-grandmother on her father's side was the singer Jenny Lind, known as the "Swedish Nightingale".[3] Maude was a cousin of the actor-manager Cyril Maude.[4]

Maude married firstly Scottish Rugby International player and journalist Frank Waters (1909-1954), with whom she had a daughter.[5][6] In 1956, she married Oliver Woods (1911-1972).[4] She was the writer, producer, and production designer of the short film All Hallowe'en (1952).[7]

Her mother, an author, and an actress, published a book Behind the Night-Light: The By-World of a Child of Three in 1912, recording 'faithfully' the beasts and animals Joan imagined as a 3-year-old.[8]

Filmography

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As Sister Tutor in Life in Her Hands (1951)

References

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  1. ^ "Joan Maude". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Joan Maude". aveleyman.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Joan Maude marries rugby international in London . Miss Joan Maude , the actress who is playing Katheryn Howard in " The rose without a thorn " in London , was married to Mr Frank H Waters , the Scottish rugby international , at St Clement Danes Ch". Europeana.
  4. ^ a b Mollison, Avril (22 October 1998). "Obituary: Joan Maude". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  5. ^ "- Person Page 43400". thepeerage.com.
  6. ^ "National Portrait Gallery - Person - Joan Maude". npg.org.uk.
  7. ^ "All Hallowe'en (1953) - BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012.
  8. ^ "Price -". antiqbook.com.
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