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Joan Dowling (6 January 1928 – 31 March 1954) was a British character actress. Life and career. Dowling was the illegitimate daughter of Vera Dowling.
Joan Dowling. Actress: Murder Without Crime. Joan Dowling had a passion for acting and as an aspiring young actress she would take roles in plays, pantomimes and other works simply to be on the stage. Her first recognised role was at the tender age of 14 and she signed her first film contract at 17.
Joan Dowling was a British actress who starred in Ealing Studios comedies and stage plays. She married actor Harry Fowler in 1951, but committed suicide in 1954 after discovering his affair.
In 1951, Fowler married Joan Dowling, an actress who made her screen debut alongside him in Hue and Cry. After just three years of marriage, when her career was failing, she was found in a gas ...
Actor. Joan Dowling was an English character actress. Background. The illegitimate daughter of Vera Dowling, Joan was brought up by her greatgrandmother, Elizabeth Dowling, in Uxbridge. Career. She had a passion for acting, although she was never formally trained, and took roles in small plays, pantomimes and other productions whenever she could.
Joan Dowling was the illegitimate daughter of Vera Martin of Upton Park. When the unmarried Vera became pregnant, she was sent to her maternal grandmother, who had lived in Laindon since the early 1920s. Joan was born on the 8th January 1928 at the house called Carlyle. Which is one of the turreted bungalows in the High Road North.
English actress. Born Jan 6, 1928, in Laindon, Essex, England; died Mar 31, 1954, of asphyxiation in London, England.
