Joyce Bland
{{Short description|British actress (1906–1963)}}
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| birthname = Joyce Elizabeth K. Bland
| birth_date = 10 May 1906
| birth_place = Caerleon, Wales
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| death_date = 24 August 1963 (aged 57)
| death_place = Bournemouth, Dorset
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| yearsactive = 1932-1938
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Joyce Bland (10 May 1906 – 24 August 1963) was a Welsh film actress.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115080413/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/19398 BFI.org]
Early life
Joyce Bland was born in 1906, at Caerleon, Wales. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Bland made her stage debut on tour in 1927 in The Constant Nymph. She then returned to London and understudied Tallulah Bankhead. In 1935 she appeared in the historical play Mary Tudor.
Her interpretation of the role of Goneril in King Lear was considered "extraordinary" and "sinister".John Berryman, [https://books.google.com/books?id=POApkE6I1qkC&dq=Joyce%20Bland%20actress&pg=PA131 Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings] (Tauris Park 2001): 131. {{ISBN|9781860646430}} However, another critic referred to her as "the aptly named Joyce Bland," who "spoke finely" and "looked beautiful" as Desdemona in Othello at Stratford.Michael Neill, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qbqXAwAAQBAJ&dq=Joyce%20Bland%20actress&pg=PA104 "Introduction"] in The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello (Oxford University Press 2008): 104. {{ISBN|9780199535873}}
Later she went to North America where she appeared in Shakespearean roles.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5093275/joyce_bland_in_midsummer_nights_dream/ "Two Plays End Shakespearean Week at Walker"] Winnipeg Tribune (11 November 1929): 8. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="3"|1932
| Countess Helga | |
| The Flag Lieutenant
| Mrs. Cameron | |
| The Barton Mystery
| Helen Barton | |
| 1933
| Valerie Merryman | |
| 1935
| Ellen | |
| rowspan="2"|1936
| Mrs. Fairclough | |
| Spy of Napoleon
| The Empress | |
| rowspan="4"|1937
| Christine | |
| Victoria the Great
| Florence Nightingale | |
| Cymbeline
| Imogen | TV film |
| Genius at Home
| Jane Carlyle | TV film |
| rowspan="4"|1938
| Isobel Strudwick | |
| Chips
| Lady | |
| Sixty Glorious Years
| Florence Nightingale | |
| The Citadel
| Nurse Sharp | |
| 1939
| England's Shakespeare | Rosalind | Documentary short |
References
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Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:Welsh stage actresses
Category:20th-century British actresses
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