Joyce Chancellor

Joyce Chancellor appeared in the West End presentations of many Irish plays in the 1930s. She was born in Dublin in 1905 and first appeared at the Abbey Theatre in 1923 in The Kingdom of God. In London she played in, among others, The Playboy of the Western World, The Plough and the Stars, and The Whiteheaded Boy. She toured North America in And So To Bed and South Africa with Angela Baddeley’s company. Later she worked with the BBC radio repertory company and appeared on BBC television over many years. Her sister Betty Chancellor was also an actress in Dublin and in England. Joyce married Fred O’Donovan, the eminent Irish actor, producer and pioneer of television drama with the BBC. She died in Devon in 1991.

Past productions

Blanaid, The Moon in the Yellow River 23^rd November 1934 – 16^th March 1935, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, Duchess Theatre, London, and other locations.
Mary Boyle, Juno and the Paycock, Irish Players and LP and C Productions Ltd 1^st – 17^th March 1934, Little Theatre, London.
Mary Ellen, General John Regan 25^th November – 20^th December 1930, Criterion Theatre, London.
Dorothea (Ducky), The Far-Off Hills 1^st September – 25^th October 1930, Everyman Theatre, London and Criterion Theatre, London.
Mollser, The Plough and the Stars 2^nd June – 5^th July 1930, Duchess Theatre, London.
Juno and the Paycock 1929 – 1930, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
Mollser, The Plough and the Stars started 1926, New Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London.

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Joyce Chancellor

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