Johanna Harwood

Johanna M. Harwood (born 1930) is an Irish screenwriter. She was born and raised in County Wicklow in the Irish countryside. She co-wrote two James Bond films, and went uncredited for adaptation work on a third. Harwood entered the film industry in 1949. Fluent in the French language, she trained at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ("I.D.H.E.C") in Paris, France. According to the Irish Digest, Harwood also studied filmmaking in England, then returned to Dublin to work in the Irish film industry. She became a continuity supervisor on films during the early to mid-1950s including Everybody's Business (a.k.a. Gno Gach Einne);[nb 1] Return to Glennascaul (shot in Ireland), starring Orson Welles;[nb 2] The Flying Eye; Knave of Hearts (shot in London and France); and Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin.[nb 3] She also did assistant continuity on the Albert R. Broccoli productions The Red Beret and Hell Below Zero.