Joyce Barbour

Acting

Joyce Barbour

Born 1901-03-27 · Birmingham, England

Joyce Barbour was an English actress and the wife of the actor Richard Bird.

Acting credits

Sabotage poster
6.7

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

Sabotage

1937

Saloon Bar poster
7.0

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Saloon Bar

1940

Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder poster
NR

A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.

Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder

1940

Don't Take It to Heart poster
6.3

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.

Don't Take It to Heart

1944

Stop Press Girl poster
5.9

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.

Stop Press Girl

1949

It Started in Paradise poster
6.5

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

It Started in Paradise

1952

Housemaster poster
7.5

Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.

Housemaster

1938

No artwork available
6.0

In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.

For Valour

1937

No artwork available
NR

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Happy Family

1939

The Main Chance poster
6.0

A wealthy young layabout tries to double cross the master-crook who has engaged him to do a job.

The Main Chance

1964