Joan McCall (born January 31, 1948, in Kentucky) is an American screenwriter, producer, actress and religious minister. Career Her first film roles were in the 1974 movies Devil Times Five and Act of Vengeance and the 1976 horror film Grizzly. She starred on Broadway in A Race of Hairy Men, Barefoot in the Park and Star-Spangled Girl. A prolific screenwriter, she wrote the original screenplay of Heart Like a Wheel and 250 scripts for Days of Our Lives, Another World, Santa Barbara, Divorce Court and Search for Tomorrow. She is a Science of Mind minister and served as the Spiritual Director of Creative Arts Center for Spiritual Living (CACSL) in Los Angeles until January 2011. She is married to Hollywood motion picture producer David Sheldon. References 1948 births Living people American film actresses American stage actresses American screenwriters American women screenwriters American soap opera writers Women soap opera writers 21st-century American women