People
Joan Greenwood
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. Perhaps her most famous role was Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Greenwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Tom Jones
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Importance of Being Earnest
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Mysterious Island
As Lady Mary Fairchild
The Man in the White Suit
As Daphne Birnley
The Water Babies
As Lady Harriet
The Moon-Spinners
As Aunt Frances Ferris
Whisky Galore!
As Peggy Macroon
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
The Water Babies
1978 · Lady Harriet
The Moon-Spinners
1964 · Aunt Frances Ferris
Tom Jones
1963 · Lady Bellaston
Mysterious Island
1961 · Lady Mary Fairchild
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952 · Gwendolen Fairfax
The Man in the White Suit
1951 · Daphne Birnley
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Sibella
Whisky Galore!
1949 · Peggy Macroon