Biography
Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress. She began her career on the London stage as a child dancer and appeared in West End productions, including Shakespearean roles, during the 1920s and early 1930s before moving primarily into film and television work.
She is best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death. Other screen credits include Hobson's Choice (1931), The Lamp Still Burns (1943), They Knew Mr. Knight (1946), Corridor of Mirrors (1948) and Life in Her Hands (1951), as well as a television appearance in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956). She was also writer, producer and production designer of the short film All Hallowe'en (1953).
Maude was the daughter of actors Charles Maude and Nancy Price and a cousin of actor-manager Cyril Maude. Her great-grandmother on her father's side was the singer Jenny Lind.
