Joan Dowling
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joan Dowling (6 January 1928 – 31 March 1954) was an English character actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Dowling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: January 6, 1928
Place of Birth: Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK
Known For
No Room at the Inn
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Bond Street
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Pool of London
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Hue and Cry
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Train of Events
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Murder Without Crime
A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.
Women of Twilight
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
For Them That Trespass
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Filmography
as Rosie Gordon
as Mrs. Barry
as Maggie
as Pamela, Maisie's sister
as Grena, Nightclub Hostess
as Miriam
as Gracie, Rosie's friend
as Ella
as Norma Bates
as Norma
as Clarry