Joyce Barbour
Acting
Biography
Joyce Barbour was an English actress and the wife of the actor Richard Bird.
Born: March 27, 1901
Place of Birth: Birmingham, England
Known For
Man of the World
Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.
Maigret
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
Sabotage
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.
Saloon Bar
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
The Main Chance
A wealthy young layabout tries to double cross the master-crook who has engaged him to do a job.
Don't Take It to Heart
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.
Stop Press Girl
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.
It Started in Paradise
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.
Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder
A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.
Housemaster
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
Filmography
as Madame Rozanne
as Lady Kempson
as Concierge
as Lady Burridge
as Aunt Mab
as Harriet
as Sally
as Mrs Anyman
as Barbara Fane
as Renee