Background
Joy Shelton was born in London on 3 June 1922.
Joy Shelton was born in London on 3 June 1922.
She appeared in a number of British films in the 1940s and "50s, most notably in two by Sidney Gilliat, Millions Like Us, which traced the wartime life of an ordinary London family, and Waterloo Road, in which she was fought over by John Mills and Stewart Granger. She was a popular radio personality and played the part of Joan Carr in The Adventures of Personal Computer 49 for the British Broadcasting Corporation. This series ran from 1947 until 1953, totalling 112 episodes. She also appeared in the film version, A Case for Personal Computer 49 (1950).
The couple acted together in a total of six films.
They had three children, Jennifer, Jeremy and Jonathan. Joy Shelton died on 28 January 2000 at the age of 77.
Millions Like Us (1943), Phyllis Crowson Waterloo Road (1944), Tillie Colter Send for Paul Temple (1946) Number Room at the Inn (1948), Judith Drave Uneasy Terms (1948), Effie A Case for Personal Computer 49 (1950), Joan Carr Once a Sinner (1950), Vera Lamb Emergency Call (1952), Laura Bishop Park Plaza 605 (1953) Impulse (1954), Elizabeth Curtiss Number Kidding (Beware of Children in United States of America) (1960), Mrs Rockbottom The Greengage Summer (1961), Mistress Grey His Majesty’s Ship Defiant (1962), Mrs Crawford - Damn the Defiant in United States of America Roots (1979) - British, not to be confused with the 1977 American miniseries Roots.
Jonathan Tafler has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Drama Company and features in the Barbra Streisand film Yentl.