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Joan Harrison
Sign in to saveEnglish film producer and screenwriter (1907-1994)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Locust Valley
- Montage
- Lovely Lacecap Hydrangeas
- Fiber
- Rebecca
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Film & TV
Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Joan Harrison (20 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar when the category was introduced in 1940, and was the first screenwriter to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year in separate categories, for co-writing the screenplay for the films Foreign…
Known for
- I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self (archive footage)2021
- A Talk with Hitchcock — Self1964
- The Man Who Knew Too Much — Secretary (uncredited)1934
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1943-02-24
- Active to
- 2001-11-29
britishelectronicexperimentalfolkfolk poppop
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 10
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Harrison
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Guildford
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- Eric Ambler
- Occupation
- television producer
- Educated at
- St Hugh's College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Joan Harrison (1937).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1907-06-26
- date of death
- 1994-08-14
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- Commons category
- Joan Harrison
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