Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith in Ightham, Kent, she trained at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art before debuting at nineteen. After early British bit parts, a Gainsborough Pictures contract gave her leading roles in titles such as The Camels Are Coming, First a Girl and King Solomon's Mines, after which she moved to Hollywood with husband Robert Stevenson. There she became a f… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for The Sound of Music 1965 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 How Green Was My Valley 1941 ★ 7.5 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
Mrs. Fairley Series ★ 8 Combat! 1962
Sister Lescaut ★ 7.3 How Green Was My Valley 1941
Bronwyn Series ★ 7.7 Perry Mason 1957
Crystal Durham Series ★ 7.9 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
Roberta Saunders Series ★ 7.1 The Streets of San Francisco 1972
★ 7.2 The Last Hurrah 1958
Gert Minihan ★ 6.9 Hangmen Also Die! 1943
Masha Novotny Series ★ 7.2 77 Sunset Strip 1958
Series ★ 6.9 Mannix 1967
Series ★ 7 Daniel Boone 1964
Clara Merivale ★ 7.1 Flesh and Fantasy 1943
Rowena (segment 2) Series ★ 6.7 Family Affair 1966
Series ★ 6.7 Gunsmoke 1955
Amy Bassett Series ★ 6.6 Peter Gunn 1958
Series ★ 6.6 Wagon Train 1957
Mrs. Allyris Craven Series ★ 6.6 My Three Sons 1960
★ 6.6 Jack the Giant Killer 1962
Lady Constance ★ 6.6 The Crimson Kimono 1959
Mac ★ 6.6 Bedlam 1946
Nell Bowen ★ 6.4 Gideon's Day 1958
Mrs. Kate Gideon ★ 6.5 7 Women 1965
Mrs. Russell ★ 6.1 The Man Who Changed His Mind 1936
Dr. Clare Wyatt ★ 6.3 Flying Tigers 1942
Brooke Elliott ★ 6 Seven Sinners 1940
Dorothy Series ★ 5.6 The F.B.I. 1965
Eileen Crane Series ★ 5.5 B. J. and the Bear 1979
★ 5.5 Commandos Strike at Dawn 1942
Judith Bowen ★ 5.4 Listen to Me 1989
★ 6.4 Two Rode Together 1961
Mrs. Malaprop ★ 6.2 In Like Flint 1967
Elisabeth ★ 5.4 King Solomon's Mines 1937
Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien ★ 5.7 The Unsinkable Molly Brown 1964
Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat (uncredited) Start from another title 
