Heather Angel (actor)

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Heather Angel (actor)

Heather Grace Angel (February 9 1909 – December 13 1986) was an English

England

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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Biography
Born in Oxford

Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
, England

England

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, Angel made her first film appearance with a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Detective fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serial in the British Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set mainly on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country....
(1932). Over the next few years she played strong roles in such films asThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935 film)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the third film adaptation and first sound film version of Charles Dickens unfinished work of the The Mystery of Edwin Drood....
(1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer
The Informer (film)

The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
(1935), The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)

The Last of the Mohicans is a 1936 in film adventure film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans starring Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon and Bruce Cabot....
(1936) and The Bold Caballero.

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Heather Grace Angel (February 9 1909 – December 13 1986) was an English

England

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Biography

Born in Oxford

Oxford

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
, England

England

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond is a United Kingdom fictional character created by "Sapper," a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , in imitation of the hard boiled film noir-style detectives appearing in contemporary United States fiction....
series, in a role she would eventually play in five films.

She was cast in such prestigious films as Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)

Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice has been the List of artistic depictions of and related to Pride and Prejudice. This Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood Hollywood version was released in 1940 in film....
(1940), Kitty Foyle
Kitty Foyle (film)

Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig , Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper....
(1940), That Hamilton Woman
That Hamilton Woman

That Hamilton Woman -- the original British title was simply Lady Hamilton -- is a historical film drama, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for Alexander Korda Films....
(1941), and two Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
films, Suspicion
Suspicion (film)

Suspicion is a romance film psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple....
(1941) and Lifeboat
Lifeboat (film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II war film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson , John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel , Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a Lifeboat ....
(1944). Her film appearances in the following years were few, but she returned to Hollywood to provide voices for the Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
films Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London, England on July 26, 1951 by RKO Pictures....
(1951) and Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1953 film)

Peter Pan is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based on the play Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the List of Disney animated features and was originally released to theaters on February 5, 1953 by RKO Pictures....
(1953). She also played a continuing role in the television

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
Peyton Place
Peyton Place (TV series)

Peyton Place is an American Prime time drama Serial which aired on American Broadcasting Company in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969....
from 1964 until 1965.

Angel was married to Robert B. Sinclair, a television director. On January 4, 1970, an intruder broke into their home; when Sinclair attempted to protect Angel, the intruder killed Sinclair in Angel's presence, then fled. The incident is believed to have been a failed burglary. She died from cancer

Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
in Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to...
, and currently has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
, for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. She was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Heather Angel (actor)

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