Henrietta Elizabeth Spiers (6 August 1881 – 1973) was a British costume designer for the theatre and silent films, a screenwriter, and an author.
He also wrote the play If Youth But Knew, which was made as a silent film in 1926 starring Godfrey Tearle and Mary Odette.
[5] Their daughter, the actress Joan Mary Langford Reed made her screen début aged two years in The Heart of a Rose (1919), written by her father.
[6][7] In 1919 her article 'Costume Designing for Cinematography' was published in The Bioscope and she was awarded a prize for Best Costume Representing a Stoll Film at the Crystal Palace Carnival in 1921 for The Fruitful Vine starring a young Basil Rathbone.
[8] Also with her husband she wrote the screenplay for Potter's Clay (1922), a silent film directed by H. Grenville-Taylor and Douglas Payne and starring Ellen Terry.