Joyce Howard

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).

  • Title : Joyce Howard
  • Popularity : 2.4
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1922-02-28
  • Place of Birth : London, England, UK
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Joyce Howard Movies

  • 1942
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    Back-Room Boy

    Back-Room Boy

    6.4 1942 HD

    Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up...

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  • 1941
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    Love on the Dole

    Love on the Dole

    5.7 1941 HD

    Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...

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  • 1943
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    They Met in the Dark

    They Met in the Dark

    6.3 1943 HD

    A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court...

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  • 1946
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    Appointment with Crime

    Appointment with Crime

    5.9 1946 HD

    Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are...

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  • 1950
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    Shadow of the Past

    Shadow of the Past

    1 1950 HD

    A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.

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  • 1942
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    The Night Has Eyes

    The Night Has Eyes

    6.3 1942 HD

    Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they...

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  • 1941
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    The Common Touch

    The Common Touch

    7 1941 HD

    The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...

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  • 1946
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    They Knew Mr. Knight

    They Knew Mr. Knight

    5.7 1946 HD

    After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

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  • 1941
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    Freedom Radio

    Freedom Radio

    6.3 1941 HD

    Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....

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    The Gentle Sex

    The Gentle Sex

    7 1943 HD

    During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...

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  • 1959
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    Hot Summer Night

    Hot Summer Night

    1 1959 HD

    Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black...

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  • 1942
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    Talk About Jacqueline

    Talk About Jacqueline

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1947
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    Mrs. Fitzherbert

    Mrs. Fitzherbert

    6 1947 HD

    The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between...

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