Heather Angel

Actor

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Also Known As

Heather Grace Angel

Birth Place

Oxford, England, GB

Born

February 09, 1909

Died

December 13, 1986

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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Delicately pretty leading lady and supporting player of the 1930s and 40s. Angel began making films in her native Great Britain and initially made a good impression in the gentle romanticism of "Berkeley Square" and in John Ford's moving "Pilgrimage" (both 1933). Many of her more important films, though, did not necessarily highlight her character or gave her somewhat ordinary leads to w...

Filmography

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Premature Burial (1962)

Peter Pan (1953)

Voice of Mrs. Mary Darling

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

[Voice of] Alice's sister

The Saxon Charm (1948)

In the Meantime, Darling (1944)

Cry 'Havoc' (1944)

Photos & Videos

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That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Emma, Lady Hamilton

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) An American Jest

Family & Companions

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Ralph Forbes

Husband

Actor.

Henry Wilcoxon

Husband

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Robert B Sinclair

Husband

Director. Fatally stabbed by a prowler.

Biography

Delicately pretty leading lady and supporting player of the 1930s and 40s. Angel began making films in her native Great Britain and initially made a good impression in the gentle romanticism of "Berkeley Square" and in John Ford's moving "Pilgrimage" (both 1933). Many of her more important films, though, did not necessarily highlight her character or gave her somewhat ordinary leads to work with. Angel primarily enjoyed larger roles in programmers and B films, among them a number of "Bulldog Drummond" mysteries of the late 30s, and played supporting roles in larger budget films. She played the youngest of the marriageable Bennet sisters in "Pride and Prejudice" (1940) and other notable credits included Ford's "The Informer" (1935), "The Last of the Mohicans" (1936) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" (1941). Angel was also memorable as one of those lost at sea in Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" (1943). She lived quietly in her later years, working very occasionally, and unfortunately lived to see her third husband fatally stabbed by a prowler.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Premature Burial (1962)

Peter Pan (1953)

Voice of Mrs. Mary Darling

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

[Voice of] Alice's sister

The Saxon Charm (1948)

In the Meantime, Darling (1944)

Cry 'Havoc' (1944)

Lifeboat (1944)

Time to Kill (1943)

The Undying Monster (1942)

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Suspicion (1941)

Singapore Woman (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Sylvia [Armitage]

Kitty Foyle (1940)

Girl in prologue

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Half a Sinner (1940)

Undercover Doctor (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Phyllis Clavering

Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)

Phyllis Clavering

Army Girl (1938)

Mrs. Gwen Bradley

Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)

Phyllis Clavering

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Phyllis Clavering

Portia on Trial (1937)

Elizabeth Manners

Western Gold (1937)

Jeannie Thatcher

The Duke Comes Back (1937)

Susan Corbin Foster

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Phyllis Clavering

The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

Daniel Boone (1936)

Virginia Randolph

The Bold Caballero (1936)

Isabella [Palma]

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

The Three Musketeers (1935)

The Informer (1935)

The Headline Woman (1935)

Myrna Van Buren

It Happened in New York (1935)

The Perfect Gentleman (1935)

Springtime for Henry (1934)

Romance in the Rain (1934)

Murder in Trinidad (1934)

Orient Express (1934)

Pilgrimage (1933)

Berkeley Square (1933)

Helen Pettigrew

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)

Self-Made Lady (1932)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Backstairs at the White House (1979)

Life Events

1926

Stage acting debut at Old Vic

1933

Earliest Hollywood films included "Berkeley Square" and "Pilgrimage"

1944

Last year to have several films in release

1948

Returned to films after several inactive years in "The Saxon Charm"

1962

Returned for a one-shot character role in "The Premature Burial"

Photo Collections

Lifeboat - Movie Poster

Lifeboat - Movie Poster

Pride and Prejudice - Scene Stills

Here are several scene stills from MGM's Pride and Prejudice (1940), starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.

Videos

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Emma, Lady Hamilton Nothing inaccurate in this opening scene, Vivien Leigh as the now dissolute Lady Hamilton, who died in poverty in Calais in 1815, clashing with French authorities, rescued by English Mary (Heather Angel), in Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman, 1941, co-starring Laurence Olivier.

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) An American Jest Time traveling American Peter (Leslie Howard) is posing as his 18th century namesake, whose diary he has studied, meeting his puzzled London cousins Kate (Valerie Taylor), Tom (Colin Keith-Johnston), Lady Anne (Irene Browne) and Helen (Heather Angel), in Berkeley Square, 1933.

Informer, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Then Judas Repented Credits then the abstract and chilling opening sequence from The Informer, 1935, which won Academy Awards for Best Direction (John Ford), Best Actor (Victor McLaglen), screenplay (Dudley Nichols) and score (Max Steiner).

Informer, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Better Count It... Dublin rebel Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford) comes home to his mother (Una O'Connor) and sister (Heather Angel) and a trap laid by his friend Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen, title character), disconsolate at the British headquarters, in John Ford's The Informer, 1935.

Last Of The Mohicans, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Want Paleface Squaws Shifty Magua (Bruce Cabot) is leading Brit Hayward (Henry Wilcoxon) and his commanding officer’s daughters (Binnie Barnes, Heather Angel) toward abduction, fortunately Hawkeye (Randolph Scott) and the Mohicans (Robert Barrat, Philip Reed) have followed, in The Last Of The Mohicans, 1936.

Last Of The Mohicans, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Haircut By Huron Barbers Impressive location shooting as Hawkeye (Randolph Scott) convinces Hayward (Henry Wilcoxon) they’d better save British Alice and Cora (Binnie Barnes, Heather Angel) from the Hurons quick, then some back-story for James Fenimore Cooper’s hero, in The Last Of The Mohicans, 1936.

Cry Havoc (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Take It Up With General MacArthur Smitty (Margaret Sullavan) brings in the Corregidor evacuees who are the new volunteer medical staff on Bataan, Ann Sothern as Pat, Ella Raines, Gloria Grafton, Diana Lewis, Fely Franquelli, Dorothy Morris, Heather Angel, Frances Gifford and Joan Blondell as Grace, in Cry Havoc, 1944.

Lifeboat (1944) -- (Movie Clip) One Of Them Shell Shock Cases Early on, players gathering after the liner is sunk by the U-Boat, nurse Mary Anderson, sailor William Bendix, oiler John Hodiak, magnate Henry Hull, journalist Tallulah Bankhead, crewman Hume Cronyn, then mother Heather Angel and German Walter Slezak, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944.

Lifeboat (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Burial At Sea John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Tallulah Bankhead and Hume Cronyn, pre-empted by Canada Lee, do what they can for the deceased infant, Bankhead and nurse Mary Anderson then helping the delirious mother Heather Angel, German Walter Slezak observing, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944.

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Spirit Of The Night Racing toward Scotland Yard, Ray Milland (title character) is surprised by a pedestrian (Heather Angel) then a guy sinking in a bog, not meeting a band of nasties (led by Porter Hall), found by his butler Tenny (E.E. Clive), in the Paramount serial Bulldog Drummond Esapes, 1937.

Pride And Prejudice (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Beauty And Charm Jane Austen comic scene from MGM, the Bennets (Edmund Gwenn, Mary Boland) and daughters (Greer Garson as Elizabeth, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, with Ann Rutherford, Heather Angel and Marsha Hunt) receive the supercilious Mr. Collins (Melville Cooper), in Pride And Prejudice, 1940.

Mystery Of Edwin Drood (1935) -- (Movie Clip) May She Always Be Cherished New tensions, brother and sister Neville and Helena (Douglass Montgomery, Valerie Hobson), in from Ceylon, meeting among others Rosa (Heather Angel), her betrothed Edwin (David Manners) and his uncle Jasper (Claude Rains), in the 1935 production of Charles Dickens' Mystery Of Edwin Drood.

Shadows on the Stairs - (Original Trailer) A series of mysterious murders haunts the inhabitants of a boarding house in Shadows on the Stairs (1941).

Singapore Woman - (Original Trailer) A woman who believes she's cursed, takes refuge on a rubber plantation in Singapore Woman (1941) starring Brenda Marshall.

Suspicion - (Re-issue Trailer) A wealthy wallflower (Joan Fontaine) suspects her penniless playboy husband (Cary Grant) of murder in Suspicion (1942), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Cry Havoc - (Original Trailer) Cry Havoc (1943) as a group of nurses stay behind to treat the wounded after the Japanese seize Bataan during World War II.

Informer, The - (Re-issue Trailer) Victor McLaglen won a Best Actor Oscar® playing an Irish rebel who sells out his friend in John Ford's The Informer (1935).

Pride and Prejudice - (Original Trailer) Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier star in Pride And Prejudice, 1940, Jane Austen's comic classic about five sisters out to nab husbands in 19th-century England.

Perfect Gentleman, The - (Original Trailer) Frank Morgan is a retired military man who helps an actress make a comeback and proves to be The Perfect Gentleman (1935).

Companions

Ralph Forbes

Husband

Actor.

Henry Wilcoxon

Husband

Actor.

Robert B Sinclair

Husband

Director. Fatally stabbed by a prowler.

Bibliography

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