Jane Arden

Biography

Jane Arden (29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a Welsh film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet. Arden was born Norah Patricia Morris at 47 Twmpath Road, Pontypool, Monmouthshire.[1] She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, and began her career in the late 1940s on television and in the cinema. She appeared in a television production of Romeo and Juliet in the late 1940s, and then starred in two British crime films: Black Memory (1947) directed by Oswald Mitchell – which provided South African-born actor Sid James with his first screen credit (billed as Sydney James) – and Richard M. Grey's A Gunman Has Escaped (1948). There are copies of both films in the BFI National Archive, but the copy of A Gunman Has Escaped is incomplete.

Known For

The Other Side of the Underneath

Acting

1965

Dali In New York

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Self

1965

The Interior Decorator

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Susan Carter-Carter

1966

Exit 19

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Maserati Passenger

1975

Vibration

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1968

Separation

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Jane

1947

Black Memory

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Sally Davidson

1964

In Camera

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Inez

1972

The Other Side of the Underneath

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Therapist

1948

A Gunman Has Escaped

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Jane

Production

Crew

1975

Vibration

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Directing

1979

Anti-Clock

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1972

The Other Side of the Underneath

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1975

Vibration

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