Joan Kemp-Welch

Directing

Joan Kemp-Welch

Born 1906-09-23 · Wimbledon, London, England, UK

Acting credits

"Pimpernel" Smith poster
7.1

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

"Pimpernel" Smith

1941

The Citadel poster
6.4

Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

The Citadel

1938

The 1002nd Night poster
5.5

An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.

The 1002nd Night

1933

They Flew Alone poster
6.8

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

They Flew Alone

1942

Laugh It Off poster
6.5

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.

Laugh It Off

1940

School for Husbands poster
6.0

A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so they can be free for one night of fun and frolic. The husbands are all for this as they think it will cure their wives of being infatuated with this man-about-town. And they might run into some fun in Paris. Actually, the philanderer is the one who put the idea in their heads to go away so the coast will be clear for his marauding raid party, with no intentions of curing anybody of anything.

School for Husbands

1937

No artwork available
10.0

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.

All In!

1936

London Melody poster
7.5

Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?

London Melody

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Hard Steel

1942

Busman's Honeymoon poster
6.0

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...

Busman's Honeymoon

1940

The Girl in the Taxi poster
6.8

In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.

The Girl in the Taxi

1937

Rhythm Serenade poster
7.7

Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.

Rhythm Serenade

1943

Once a Thief poster
6.7

Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.

Once a Thief

1935

The Avenging Hand poster
5.4

A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.

The Avenging Hand

1936

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Veteran of Waterloo

1933

Behind the camera

A Choice of Coward: Design for Living poster
NR

Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Otto and Leo, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.

A Choice of Coward: Design for Living

1964

No artwork available
NR

An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.

The Collection

The Lover poster
6.0

A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before.

The Lover

1963

Romeo and Juliet poster
6.5

Romeo falls in love with the beautiful young Juliet, but their warring families spell tragedy for the lovers.

Romeo and Juliet

1976

The Open Door poster
7.0

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?

The Open Door

1966

Red Riding Hood poster
8.0

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.

Red Riding Hood

1973

No artwork available
NR

Barbara lives in a fantasy world of trying to become a great woman pilot like her heroine, the late Amy Johnson.

Amy, Wonderful Amy

1974

No artwork available
NR

The conflict of a German man, Robert, who worked during the war for U.S Intelligence and now has been drawn back to his country to be honoured by his old University.

Remember the Germans

1969

The Bone Grinder poster
8.0

George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.

The Bone Grinder

1968

The Bone Grinder poster
8.0

George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.

The Bone Grinder

1968

No artwork available
NR

A free-spirited lodger profoundly disrupts the lives of the suburban family she moves in with.

The Golden Road

1973

A Midsummer Night's Dream poster
7.0

Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1964

No artwork available
NR

The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant.

Night School

1960

No artwork available
NR

Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.

Brussel Sprouts

1973

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter poster
8.0

An aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright.

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter

1964

No artwork available
NR

At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to the guests.

That Sinking Feeling

1973

Justice Is a Woman poster
NR

Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.

Justice Is a Woman

1969

No artwork available
NR

Chekhov’s tale of a family distanced from their environment and living in a world of growing disillusionment is a stunning adaptation of the Russian writer’s play.

The Three Sisters

1963

No artwork available
NR

A witty but dissolute peer is about to engage as his secretary a young man who turns out to be his illegitimate son. Then he proceeds to make advances to the young man's fiancée.

A Woman of No Importance

1960

Beyond Our Means poster
NR

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.

Beyond Our Means

1973

No artwork available
NR

It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form of Anna and a new life beckons escaping away and traveling Europe.

Russian Roulette

1973

No artwork available
NR

It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form of Anna and a new life beckons escaping away and traveling Europe.

Russian Roulette

1973

No artwork available
NR

Play about a television playwright's attempts to make a mark when an opportunity is given to him to fill a slot left by a recently deceased rival. The poor state of the playwright's marriage also motivates him to prove his worth.

End of Story

1969

A Choice of Coward: The Vortex poster
9.0

Nicky Lancaster must deal with the problem of his youth-obsessed aging socialite mother.

A Choice of Coward: The Vortex

1964