Acting
Joan Miller
Born February 18, 1910 · Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Died August 31, 1988 · aged 78
Joan Miller was a Canadian actress who moved to London in 1931. In 1937, she appeared on the newly created BBC television network's first entertainment show, 'Picture Page Girl'. She made frequent appearances on radio, television, and in a few films in the decades after the war, in addition to extensive stage work in the United Kingdom.
Known For
Criss Cross · 1949Criss Cross
★ 7.11949
MovieCrimeThriller
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Caged · 1950Caged
★ 7.11950
MovieDrama
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
The Great Sinner · 1949The Great Sinner
★ 6.81949
MovieDramaRomance
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Fire Down Below · 1957Fire Down Below
★ 5.71957
MovieDramaAdventure
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
Yield to the Night · 1956Yield to the Night
★ 6.91956
MovieDramaCrime
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Heavens Above! · 1963Heavens Above!
★ 6.61963
MovieComedy
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.
Over-Exposed · 1956Over-Exposed
★ 5.21956
MovieDramaCrime
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
No Trees in the Street · 1959No Trees in the Street
★ 5.81959
MovieDramaCrime
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Filmography
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Caged · 1950Caged
★ 7.11950
MovieDrama
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Claire Devlin (uncredited)

