Joan Maude

Acting

Joan Maude

Born — Died

1908-01-16 — 1998-09-28

Place of birth

Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 9 titles

A Matter of Life and Death poster
7.7

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

The Lamp Still Burns poster
5.8

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

The Lamp Still Burns

1943

Night Boat to Dublin poster
6.9

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

Night Boat to Dublin

1946

Corridor of Mirrors poster
6.0

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Corridor of Mirrors

1948

They Knew Mr. Knight poster
6.2

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?

They Knew Mr. Knight

1946

No artwork available
10.0

A company plans a massive development in the quiet village of Badger's Green, angering the existing inhabitants. It is eventually agreed that the outcome of the dispute will be settled by a local cricket match.

Badger's Green

1949

Great Day poster
7.4

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Great Day

1945

Strawberry Roan poster
6.5

Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.

Strawberry Roan

1944

The Temptress poster
6.5

Film noir about a physician who sets aside his altruistic quest for a cure for polio when a femme fatale coerces him into murder and blackmail.

The Temptress

1949

1930s · 9 titles

It's a King poster
9.0

An insurance agent poses as a king's double and saves him from anarchists.

It's a King

1932

One Family poster
9.0

A young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire.

One Family

1930

Turn of the Tide poster
7.3

Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North Yorkshire fishing village, and relates the rivalry between two fishing families. The actors included John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson speak in the local accent. The work is based on the novel Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley.

Turn of the Tide

1935

No artwork available
8.0

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threatens to eclipse his own, he jealously strives to control every aspect of her life - including her romance with theatre electrician Paul Lebrun.

The King of Paris

1934

No artwork available
8.0

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

In a Monastery Garden

1932

The Wandering Jew poster
7.4

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Wandering Jew

1933

No artwork available
7.0

One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.

The Lash

1934

Hobson's Choice poster
5.5

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

Hobson's Choice

1931

When London Sleeps poster
7.0

England is rocked by a series of train disasters. Police are on the hunt for the perpetrator, who is always spotted leaving the scene with a scarf around his face. The newspapers dub him "The Menace".

When London Sleeps

1934

Series credits

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