Jane Arden
British film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, active from the 1940s to the 1970s · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Lived 1927 to 1982 · aged 55
Jane Arden was a British film director, actress, singer/songwriter and poet, who gained note in the 1950s. Born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She started acting in the late 1940s and writing for stage and television in the 1950s.
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Anti-ClockFilm, Director, Writer1975
VibrationFilm, Director1972
The Other Side of the UnderneathFilm, Director, Writer1968
SeparationFilm, Writer1966
Exit 19Film, Maserati Passenger1965
Dali In New YorkFilm
The Interior DecoratorFilm, 1965Susan Carter-CarterThe Logic GameFilm, 1965Writer1964SixSeries, Writer
The Wednesday PlaySeries, 1964Inez
In CameraFilm, 1964Inez1956
Armchair TheatreSeries, Writer1948
A Gunman Has EscapedFilm, Jane1947
Black MemoryFilm, Sally Davidson1927Born29 October 1927People around Jane
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In the 1960s, she joined movements for feminism and anti-psychiatry. She wrote a screenplay for the film Separation (1967). In the late 1960s and 1970s, she wrote for experimental theatre, adapting one work as a self-directed film, The Other Side of the Underneath (1972). In 1978 she published a poetry book. Arden committed suicide in 1982. In 2009, her feature films Separation (1967), The Other Side of the Underneath (1972) and Anti-Clock (1979) were restored by the British Film Institute and released on DVD and Blu-ray. Her literary works are out of print.
