Heather Angel (actress)
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File:Heather Angel in Cry Havoc trailer.jpg
from the trailer for the film Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
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Born | Heather Grace Angel 9 February 1909[1] Headington, Oxford, England, UK |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
Cause of death | Cancer |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1931–1979 |
Spouse(s) | Ralph Forbes (m. 1934–41) Robert B. Sinclair (m. 1944–70) (his death) |
Heather Grace Angel (9 February 1909 – 13 December 1986) was a British-American actress. She filed a Petition for Naturalization as a citizen of the United States (#120988) in 1944.[2]
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Early years
Angel was born in Headington, Oxford, England,[3] and brought up on a farm near Banbury. She was the younger of two sisters. Her mother was born Mary Letitia Stock, and her father was Andrea Angel, an Oxford University chemistry lecturer who was killed in the Silvertown explosion in 1917 and posthumously awarded the Edward Medal (First Class).
Stage
Angel began her stage career at the Old Vic in 1926 and later appeared with touring companies. Her Broadway debut came in December 1937, in Love of Women at the Golden Theater.[4] She also appeared in The Wookey (1941-42).[5]
Film
Angel appeared in many British films before going to Hollywood. She made her first screen appearance in City of Song. She later had a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932). Over the next few years, she played strong roles in such films as The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer (1935) and The Last of the Mohicans (1936).
In 1937 she made the first of five appearances as Phyllis Clavering in the popular Bulldog Drummond series.[6] She was cast as Kitty Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (1940) and as the maid, Ethel, in Suspicion (1941). Angel was also the leading lady in the first screen version of Raymond Chandler's The High Window, released in 1942 as Time to Kill. She was one of the passengers of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).[6] Her film appearances in the following years were few, but she returned to Hollywood to provide voices for the Walt Disney animated films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). From 1964 until 1965, she played a continuing role in the television soap opera Peyton Place.[6] After that role, she played Miss Faversham, a nanny and female friend of Sebastian Cabot's character of Giles French in the situation comedy Family Affair.[citation needed]
Personal life
While they were both in England, Heather Angel had acted with Henry Wilcoxon in Self Made Lady (1932). So when, in 1934, she had heard Wilcoxon was also in Hollywood, she contacted him again. She immediately invited him to polo matches at the home of Will Rogers, and she taught him horse-riding, and they later acted together in two other films: The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and Lady Hamilton (1941). Though they remained lifelong friends, there is no mention in his autobiography that they ever married.[7]
Angel was married to Robert B. Sinclair (1905–1970), a film and television director. On 4 January 1970, an intruder broke into their home; when Sinclair attempted to protect Angel, the intruder killed Sinclair in Angel's presence, then fled.[8] The incident is believed to have been a failed burglary.
Recognition
Angel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for her contributions to film, at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. Another source says that her star in the motion picture category is at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard.[9]
Death
Angel died from cancer in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery.[10]
Selected filmography
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- City of Song (1931)
- Night in Montmartre (1931)
- Frail Women (1932)
- Men of Steel (1932)
- After Office Hours (1932)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
- Self Made Lady (1932)
- Mr. Bill the Conqueror (1932)
- Early to Bed (1933)
- Pilgrimage (1933)
- Berkeley Square (1933)[1]
- Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)
- Murder in Trinidad (1934)
- it (1934)
- Springtime for Henry (1934)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
- The Informer (1935)
- The Headline Woman (1935)
- The Imperfect Lady (1935)
- The Three Musketeers (1935)
- Daniel Boone (1936)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
- The Bold Caballero (1936)
- Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
- Western Gold (1937)
- Portia on Trial (1937)
- Army Girl (1938)
- Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
- Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)
- Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
- Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
- Half a Sinner (1940)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940)
- That Hamilton Woman (aka Lady Hamilton) (1941)
- Suspicion (1941)
- The Undying Monster (1942)
- Time to Kill (1942)
- Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
- Lifeboat (1944)
- In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
- The Saxon Charm (1948)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951) (voice)
- Peter Pan (1953) (voice)
- The Premature Burial (1962)
- Gone with the West (1975)
References
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- ↑ Profile, findagrave.com; accessed 25 September 2015.
Bibliography
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External links
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- Heather Angel at the Internet Movie Database
- Heather Angel at AllMovie
- Heather Angel at the TCM Movie Database
- Heather Angel at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Photographs and literature
- Heather Angel at Find a Grave
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