Joan Maude

Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.

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". Maude was a cousin of the actor-manager Cyril Maude.

Maude married firstly Scottish Rugby International player and journalist Frank Waters (1909-1954), with whom she had a daughter. In 1956, she married Oliver Woods (1911-1972).

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.

Filmography

This Freedom (1923) - Hilda Next Gentleman Please (1927) - Fortune-teller Chamber of Horrors (1929) One Family (1930) - The Mother Hobson's Choice (1931) - Alice Hobson In a Monastery Garden (1932) - Roma Romano The Wandering Jew (1933/I) - Gianella It's a King (1933) - Princess Yasma Menace (1934/II) - Lady Conway The Lash (1934) - Dora Bush The King of Paris (1934) - Lea Rossignol Jud Süß (1934) - Magdalen Sibylle Turn of the Tide (1935) - Amy Lunn The Lamp Still Burns (1943) - Sister Catley Strawberry Roan (1944) - Gladys Moon Great Day (1945) - Miss Allen The Rake's Progress (1945) - Alice They Knew Mr. Knight (1946) - Carrie Porritt Night Boat to Dublin (1946) - Sidney Vane A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - Chief Recorder Corridor of Mirrors (1948) - Caroline Hart The Temptress (1949) - Lady Clifford Life in Her Hands (1951) - Sister Tutor The Scarlet Pimpernel - Duchess of Northumberland in the episode The Imaginary Invalid (1956)