Heather Angel (actor)

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Heather Angel

Heather Angel
Birth name Heather Grace Angel
Born 9 February 1909
Flag of United Kingdom Oxford, United Kingdom
Died December 13, 1986 (aged 77)
Flag of United Kingdom Santa Barbara, United States
Notable roles Lady Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman, 1941

Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British actress.

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Born in Oxford, England, 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 (1932). Over the next few years she played strong roles in such films asThe Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer (1935), The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and The Bold Caballero. In 1937 she made her first appearance in the popular Bulldog Drummond series, in a role she would eventually play in five films.

She was cast in such prestigious films as Pride and Prejudice (1940), Kitty Foyle (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), and two Alfred Hitchcock films, Suspicion (1941) and Lifeboat (1944). 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). She also played a continuing role in the television soap opera Peyton Place from 1964 until 1965.

She died from cancer in Santa Barbara, California.

Heather Angel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard.

[edit] Trivia

  • Was the subject of Sonic Youth's 1998 song "Heather Angel" in their "A Thousand Leaves" record

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