Joan Croydon

Joan Croydon (May 15, 1908 – April 23, 1985) was an American stage actress.

Early years

Born as Vivian Giesen in Tarrytown, New York to a French mother and a father of German/French descent. She was trained as a dancer at Isadora Duncan dance school. She was cast as a substitute lead nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. She also had Broadway credits in the 1930s under her real name.

Career

She appeared in only one film,

Croydon received rave reviews for playing the Mother in William Ball's production of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Croydon then became one of the founding members of The American Conservatory Theater (ACT) which originated in Pittsburgh and is now in San Francisco.^{[citation needed]}

Croydon received a

• Major Barbara as "Mrs. Baines" - from February 26, 1980 until March 30, 1980
• Compulsion as "Mrs. Straus" - from October 24, 1957 until February 22, 1958
• The Potting Shed as "Miss Connolly" - from January 29, 1957 until June 1, 1957
• The Bad Seed as "Miss Fern" - from December 8, 1954 until September 27, 1955
• The First Crocus as "Miss Engebretsen" - from January 2, 1942 until January 6, 1942

Family

Croydon's husband was Guy Spaull (1904–1980), an American actor of stage and television. They had one child, Malcolm Spaull,^[2] who, as of March 2009, is the Chair of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'s Graduate School of Film and Animation in Rochester, New York.

External links

• Joan Croydon at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joan Croydon at
  IMDb

References