Joan Ritz (c. 1882 – 6 November 1956) was a British actress of the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. She was born Jessie Rihll in

West Ham West Ham is an area in East London, located east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham. The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancien ...

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, UK and died in

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, England, UK. From 1912 to her death she was married to

Percy Nash The English surname Percy is of Normans, Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came i ...

, who directed numerous of the silent films in which she acted.

Selected filmography

* ''

Enoch Arden ''Enoch Arden'' is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's poet laureate. The story on which it was based was provided to Tennyson by Thomas Woolner. The poem lent its name to a principle i ...

'' (1914) * '' The Harbour Lights'' (1914) * ''

In the Ranks ''In the Ranks'' is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Percy Nash and starring Gregory Scott, Daisy Cordell and James Lindsay.Goble p.430 Cast * Gregory Scott as Ned / John Drayton * Daisy Cordell as Jocelyn Hare * James Lindsay as ...

'' (1914) * '' The Coal King'' (1915) * '' A Rogue's Wife'' (1915) * ''

Flying from Justice ''Flying from Justice'' is a 1915 British silent crime film directed by Percy Nash and starring Gregory Scott, Douglas Payne and Joan Ritz.Palmer p.895 Cast * Gregory Scott as Charles Baring * Joan Ritz as Winnie * Douglas Payne as John Gu ...

'' (1915) * '' The Little Minister'' (1915) * ''

The Romany Rye ''The Romany Rye'' is a novel by George Borrow, written in 1857 as a sequel to ''Lavengro'' (1851). The novel Largely thought to be at least partly autobiographical, ''The Romany Rye'' follows from ''Lavengro'' (1851). The title can be transl ...

'' (1915) * ''

Darby and Joan Darby and Joan is a proverbial phrase for a married couple content to share a quiet life of mutual devotion. Usage ''The Nuttall Encyclopædia'' defined the phrase as "a married couple celebrated for their mutual attachment", the ''Random House ...

'' (1920) * ''

Rodney Stone ''Rodney Stone'' is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is the son of a sailor and wishes to go to sea himself. He is taken ...

'' (1920) * '' The Croxley Master'' (1921)

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* 1880s births 1956 deaths English film actresses English silent film actresses 20th-century English actresses People from West Ham {{UK-film-actor-stub