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Joy Shelton is a Actor and Scriptwriter British born on 3 june 1922 at London (United-kingdom)
Joy Shelton (3 June 1922 - 28 January 2000) was an English actress who performed in films, radio and television.
In 1944, she married the actor Sydney Tafler; they remained married until his death in 1979. The couple acted together in a total of six films. They had three children, Jennifer, Jeremy and Jonathan. Jennifer acted as a child and appeared with both her parents in the film Emergency Call (1952), directed by Shelton's brother-in-law, Lewis Gilbert. Jonathan Tafler has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC Radio Drama Company and features in the Barbra Streisand film Yentl.
Joy Shelton died on 28 January 2000 at the age of 77.
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Joy Shelton
Birth name Joy Winstanley Shelton
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 june 1922 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 28 january 2000 (at 77 years) at Surrey (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 june 1922 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 28 january 2000 (at 77 years) at Surrey (United-kingdom)
Biography
Joy Shelton was born in London on 3 June 1922. She appeared in a number of British films in the 1940s and '50s, most notably in two by Sidney Gilliat, Millions Like Us, which traced the wartime life of an ordinary London family, and Waterloo Road, in which she was fought over by John Mills and Stewart Granger. She was a popular radio personality and played the part of Joan Carr in The Adventures of PC 49 for the BBC. This series ran from 1947 until 1953, totalling 112 episodes. She also appeared in the film version, A Case for PC 49 (1950).In 1944, she married the actor Sydney Tafler; they remained married until his death in 1979. The couple acted together in a total of six films. They had three children, Jennifer, Jeremy and Jonathan. Jennifer acted as a child and appeared with both her parents in the film Emergency Call (1952), directed by Shelton's brother-in-law, Lewis Gilbert. Jonathan Tafler has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC Radio Drama Company and features in the Barbra Streisand film Yentl.
Joy Shelton died on 28 January 2000 at the age of 77.
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H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
, 1h41Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter
Roles Mrs Crawford
Rating70%
The humane Captain Crawford (Guinness) is in command of the warship HMS Defiant during the French Revolutionary Wars. He soon finds himself in a battle of wills with his first officer, the sadistic and supercilious first lieutenant, Mr. Scott-Padget (Bogarde). The Lieutenant believes that Crawford is too soft on his crew, and also disagrees with the captain's decision to proceed with orders to sail to Corsica despite word that Napoleon has overrun much of Italy. Scott-Padget has powerful family connections, which he has used in the past to "beach" two previous commanding officers with whom he disagreed. Knowing that Crawford is helpless to intervene, Scott-Padget subjects the former's son, Midshipman Harvey Crawford (David Robinson), to excessive daily punishments so as to gain leverage over the captain.
Five Golden Hours (1961)
, 1h30Directed by Mario Zampi
Genres Comedy
Actors Cyd Charisse, Ernie Kovacs, George Sanders, Kay Hammond, Dennis Price, Clelia Matania
Roles 2nd Lady Guest
Rating56%
Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) is a professional pallbearer and mourner in Rome who lives well off the extravagant gifts given to him by the rich widows he comforts. When he falls for the supposedly penniless Baroness Sandra (Charisse) – who is actually a rich "black widow" whose husbands all die – he concocts a Ponzi scheme to bilk three widows by taking money from them, telling them that he will invest it during the "five golden hours" between the closing of the stock exchange in Rome, and the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. However, the Baroness absconds with the cash, leaving Bondi in hock to the widows. He attempts to kill them, but the scheme fails and he pretends to have gone insane. In the sanatarium, his roommate is another debtor feigning madness, Mr. Bing (Sanders).
The Greengage Summer (1961)
, 1h39Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Claude Nollier, Raymond Gérôme, Jane Asher
Roles Mrs. Grey
Rating66%
Joss Grey (Susannah York), a 16-year-old English girl, finds herself responsible for the care of her three younger siblings on a summer vacation in France when their mother is suddenly taken ill and rushed to the hospital. When they go to the Hotel Oeillets, proprietress Mademoiselle Zisi (Danielle Darrieux) does not want the responsibility of unchaperoned children, but her enigmatic English lover Eliot (Kenneth More) persuades her to accept them. As the days pass, she wishes she had stuck to her original answer; she is increasingly jealous of the attention Eliot pays to the children—especially to Joss.
No Kidding (1960)
, 1h26Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan, Joan Hickson, Julia Lockwood, Irene Handl, Noel Purcell
Roles Mrs. Rockbottom
Rating57%
David (Leslie Phillips) and Catherine Robinson (Geraldine McEwan) move into a rundown country house. After a number of failed ventures, they are looking to build a solid business. They strike upon the idea of setting up a summer home for the children of the wealthy. They attract a number of customers, and hire a matron (June Jago) and a cook (Joan Hickson), and immediately fall foul of a local councillor (Irene Handl) who does not believe they should be allowed to look after children.
Impulse (1954)
, 1h21Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors John Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, Cyril Chamberlain, Cameron Hall
Roles Elizabeth Curtis
Rating59%
Alan Curtis (Kennedy), an American real estate agent living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife Elizabeth (Shelton) is on a lengthy vacation visiting her mother, he gives a ride to sultry nightclubsinger Lila (Smith) when he finds her stranded on the road. When Curtis gets romantically involved with her Lila tells him that her brother has gotten in trouble over a jewel robbery. In truth, Lila desperately wants the stones for herself. She tricks the wayward Curtis into believing that he killed a man after he buys them two tickets out of the country. He then decides that it is better to face the music, and opts to stay and confess. Lila, too reconsiders, and decides to stay with him until his name is cleared. After the true killers are revealed Lila goes to jail as a participant in the robbery and Curtis returns to his wife, who forgives him.
Park Plaza 605 (1953)
, 1h15Directed by Bernard Knowles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, Joy Shelton, Sid James, Richard Wattis, Carl Jaffe
Roles Pixie Everard
Rating56%
Emergency Call (1952)
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Jack Warner, Sid James, Earl Cameron, John Robinson
Roles Laura Bishop
Rating61%
The film centres around a race against the clock to locate three blood donors each able to donate one pint of a rare type of blood to save the life of a young girl suffering from leukaemia. The doctor in charge of treating the girl enlists the assistance of police officer Inspector Lane in order to assist in the search for suitable donors. The three donors are each from very different backgrounds, a white boxer, a black sailor, and finally a murderer who has been on the run from the police for a number of years. The boxer's donation is fairly straightforward, having only to avoid his manager, the sailor's donation is more complicated, following a war-time incident where a dying Nazi soldier refused to accept his offer of a donation which he attributes to racism, he initially refuses to donate, until it is explained to him that the Nazi officer refused his donation for reasons that can be attributed to the Nazi's Master race ideology.
A Case For P.C. 49 (1951)
, 1h20Directed by Francis Searle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Joy Shelton, Christine Norden, Gordon McLeod, Michael Balfour, Michael Ripper
Roles Joan Carr
Rating58%
Le retour du Constable Willoughby enquêtant sur l'assassinat d'un millionnaire. Il est aux prises avec une femme fatale.
Once a Sinner (1950)
, 1h18Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling, Joy Shelton, Sydney Tafler, Dame Thora Hird, Gordon McLeod
Roles Vera Lamb
Rating59%
Midnight Episode (1950)
, 1h18Directed by Gordon Parry
Genres Crime
Actors Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate, Meredith Edwards, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Sebastian Cabot
Roles Mrs. Arnold
Rating65%
This script must be run from the command line
No Room at the Inn (1948)
, 1h22Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Freda Jackson, Joan Dowling, Joy Shelton, Hermione Baddeley, Niall MacGinnis, Harcourt Williams
Roles Judith Drave
Rating66%
As part of the mass evacuation of children in the early months of World War II, teenage Mary O'Rane is billeted with Mrs Agatha ('Aggie') Voray in an unthreatened area in the north of England. Mary soon discovers that, behind her respectable front, Mrs Voray forces her evacuee charges (five in all) to live in squalor and semi-starvation while spending the money intended for their upkeep on alcohol and personal fripperies. Yet when Mary is visited by her father, Mrs Voray easily convinces him that Mary's allegations are groundless; to Mary's horror, he ends his visit by accompanying Mrs Voray on a pub crawl. Mary's young schoolteacher, Judith Drave, takes her concerns about the children's welfare to the local authorities but is ignored. Mary, meanwhile, is coaxed into petty crime by her fellow evacuee Norma. Matters come to a head when Mrs Voray goes out for the evening and returns to find that her new hat has been damaged. In an alcohol-fuelled fury, she locks little Ronnie in the coal cellar for the night. In the small hours, Mary and Norma sneak out of bed to release him, leading, in an unexpected turn of events, to Mrs Voray's accidental death.
Uneasy Terms (1948)
, 1h31Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Faith Brook, Joy Shelton, Barry Jones, Paul Carpenter
Roles Effie
Rating62%
Slim Callaghan is a private eye whose client, Colonel Stenhurst, is murdered, leaving behind a trail of suspects. Viola, the eldest of the Colonel's three stepdaughters, is the prime suspect, but after wading through clues and romance, Callaghan corners the real culprit.
Send for Paul Temple (1946)
, 1h23Directed by John Argyle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Anthony Hulme, born Harry Idris Miller, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni, Jack Raine, Beatrice Varley, Maire O'Neill
Roles Steve Trent
Rating56%
Waterloo Road (1945)
, 1h13Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
Roles Tillie Colter
Rating63%
John Mills plays an AWOL soldier who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.
Bees in Paradise (1944)
, 1h12Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Antoinette Cellier
Roles Almura
Rating49%
This musical comedy is set on a mysterious island where scantily clad warrior women hold all the power and men are regarded as disposable beings useful only for breeding purposes. Comic scenes result when four airmen arrive on the island and become the object of native womenfolk's desires.