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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Other Side of the Underneath (1972) — Therapist
2. Vibration (1975)
3. Separation (1968) — Jane
4. Armchair Theatre (1956) — Bianca
5. In Camera (1964) — Inez
6. The Wednesday Play (1964) — Inez
7. Dali In New York (1965) — Self
8. Black Memory (1947) — Sally Davidson
9. A Gunman Has Escaped (1948) — Jane
10. The Interior Decorator (1965) — Susan Carter-Carter
11. Exit 19 (1966) — Maserati Passenger
12. The Strauss Dynasty (1991) — Karoline
13. Six (1964) — The Woman

Directed

1. The Other Side of the Underneath (1972) — Director
2. Anti-Clock (1979) — Director
3. Vibration (1975) — Director