Joan Maude | |
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Madame Yevonde, 1932 | |
Born |
Rickmansworth,
Hertfordshire, England, UK | 16 January 1908
Died | 28 September 1998
Lewes,
East Sussex, England, UK | (aged 90)
Occupation | actress |
Years active | 1920s-1950s |
Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. [1] She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death. [2]
The daughter of actors Charles Maude and Nancy Price, Maude's great-grandmother on her father's side was the singer Jenny Lind, known as the "Swedish Nightingale". [3] Maude was a cousin of the actor-manager Cyril Maude. [4]
Maude married firstly Scottish Rugby International player and journalist Frank Waters (1909-1954), with whom she had a daughter. [5] [6] In 1956, she married Oliver Woods (1911-1972). [4] She was the writer, producer, and production designer of the short film All Hallowe'en (1952). [7]
Her mother, an author, and an actress, published a book Behind the Night-Light: The By-World of a Child of Three in 1912, recording 'faithfully' the beasts and animals Joan imagined as a 3-year-old. [8]