Acting

Jane Arden

Born October 29, 1927 · Pontypool, Wales, UK

Died December 20, 1982 · aged 55

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 pr…

Known For

The Other Side of the Underneath

The Other Side of the Underneath · 1972

The Other Side of the Underneath

MovieDramaHorror

A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.

Separation

Separation · 1968

Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.

Vibration

Vibration · 1975

Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.

Exit 19

Exit 19 · 1966

A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.

In Camera

In Camera · 1964

MovieDramaTV Movie

A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

Black Memory

Black Memory · 1947

MovieCrimeDrama

Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.

A Gunman Has Escaped

A Gunman Has Escaped · 1948

A Gunman Has Escaped

MovieCrimeDrama

In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.

Anti-Clock

Anti-Clock · 1979

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity, Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing film and video techniques, Arden and Bond's paranoid, psychological surveillance study of a career gambler turned clairvoyant unstuck in time captures onscreen the anxieties that have infiltrated the consciousness of so many in Western society.

Filmography

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The Other Side of the Underneath

The Other Side of the Underneath · 1972

The Other Side of the Underneath

MovieDramaHorror

A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.

Director

Separation

Separation · 1968

Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.

Writer

Vibration

Vibration · 1975

Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.

Director

Exit 19

Exit 19 · 1966

A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.

Maserati Passenger

In Camera

In Camera · 1964

MovieDramaTV Movie

A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

Inez

Black Memory

Black Memory · 1947

MovieCrimeDrama

Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.

Sally Davidson

A Gunman Has Escaped

A Gunman Has Escaped · 1948

A Gunman Has Escaped

MovieCrimeDrama

In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.

Jane

Anti-Clock

Anti-Clock · 1979

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity, Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing film and video techniques, Arden and Bond's paranoid, psychological surveillance study of a career gambler turned clairvoyant unstuck in time captures onscreen the anxieties that have infiltrated the consciousness of so many in Western society.

Director

The Interior Decorator

The Interior Decorator · 1965

The Interior Decorator

MovieTV MovieDrama

An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.

Susan Carter-Carter

The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play · 1964

The Wednesday Play

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

Inez

The Strauss Dynasty

The Strauss Dynasty · 1991

The Strauss Dynasty

A dramatization of two generations of the Viennese Strauss family, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the 19th century.

Karoline

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre · 1956

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

Writer