Joan Haythorne

{{Short description|British actress (1915–1987)}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Joan Haythorne

|image = Actress_Joan_Haythorne.jpg

|caption = Publicity still, 1956

|birth_name = Joan Haythornthwaite

|birth_date = 12 April 1915

|birth_place = London, England

|death_date = 27 August 1987 aged 72

|death_place = Richmond, London, England

|death_cause =

|alma_mater = RADA

|occupation = Actress

|spouse =

|children = Jeremy Paul (Roche)

}}

Joan Haythorne (12 April 1915 – 27 August 1987) was a British actress.{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/rxw/joan-haythorne|title=Joan Haythorne - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7vPDQAAQBAJ&dq=joan+haythorne+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=RA7-PA1964|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111968|via=Google Books}}

Joan Haythorne was born Joan Haythornthwaite,{{Cite book|author=Leslie Halliwell and John Walker|title=Halliwell's Who's who in the Movies|date=2001|publisher=HarperCollinsEntertainment|isbn=978-0-00-257214-9|page=205}} on 12 April 1915, London and died 27 August 1987, Richmond on Thames, Surrey.{{cite web|title=Joan Haythorne|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba23f1b51|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722202859/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba23f1b51|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 July 2012|website=BFI|accessdate=22 July 2015}}

Her son was the screenwriter Jeremy Paul.{{cite news|last1=Coveney|first1=Michael|title=Jeremy Paul obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/may/25/jeremy-paul-obituary|accessdate=22 July 2015|work=The Guardian|date=25 May 2011}}