Heather Angel

Actress

Popular As Heather Grace Angel

Birthday February 9, 1909

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Headington, Oxford, England

DEATH DATE 1986-12-13, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (77 years old)

Nationality United Kingdom

Height 5' 2" (1.57 m)

#47329 Most Popular

1904

They were married in 1904 and, after the wedding, they moved to the Banbury Road.

Andrea Angel's maternal grandfather was an Italian refugee and he was named after his uncle Andrea Rabagliati.

1905

Angel married Robert B. Sinclair (1905–1970), a film and television director, in 1944.

1909

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

Angel was born 9 February 1909 in Headington, Oxford, England.

She was the daughter of Mary Letitia Stock and Andrea Angel, an Oxford University chemistry lecturer and initially a don at Brasenose College and later at Christ Church.

1911

In the 1911 UK Census, the family is shown as living at 17 Banbury Road, Oxford along with three servants.

She was the younger of two sisters.

1917

Andrea Angel was killed in the Silvertown explosion in January 1917, and posthumously awarded the Edward Medal (First Class).

In his will, he left his wife £374 and shortly thereafter, his wife moved to London with the two daughters.

1926

Angel began her stage career at the Old Vic in 1926 and later appeared with touring companies.

1929

By 1929, when Heather was 19, she was already appearing with an overseas touring theatre company managed by Charles Bradbury-Ingles.

The same record shows that she was living at 20 Queen Anne's Grove, London W4, when she left.

1931

She later had a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932).

She then decided to move to Hollywood.

1932

She sailed on the Majestic to New York on 21 December 1932 with her mother.

Angel had acted with Henry Wilcoxon in Self Made Lady (1932) when they were both in Britain.

When she heard Wilcoxon was also in Hollywood, she contacted him.

She invited him to polo matches at the home of Will Rogers and later taught him horseback riding.

1934

Angel married actor Ralph Forbes in Arizona in 1934, a union that lasted less than ten years.

1935

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).

1936

They acted together in two other films: The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and Lady Hamilton (1941).

Though they remained lifelong friends, they never married.

Heather and her husband were both present at the wedding of Wilcoxon to his first wife.

They had intended to host the wedding at their house in Coldwater Canyon.

1937

Her Broadway debut came in December 1937 in Love of Women at the Golden Theatre.

In 1937 she made the first of five appearances as Phyllis Clavering in the popular Bulldog Drummond series.

1940

She was cast as Kitty Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (1940) and as the maid, Ethel, in Suspicion (1941).

1941

She also appeared in The Wookey (1941–42).

Angel appeared in many British films.

She made her first screen appearance in City of Song.

1942

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.

1944

She was one of the passengers of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).

1951

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).

1953

She was known for providing the voice of Mrs. Darling, Wendy's mother in Peter Pan (1953) and Alice's sister in Alice in Wonderland (1951).

1964

From 1964 until 1965, she played a continuing role in the television soap opera Peyton Place.

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.

1970

On 4 January 1970, an intruder, Billy McCoy Hunter, broke into their home.

When Sinclair attempted to protect Angel, Hunter killed him in her presence, then fled.

He was allegedly found with a knife and pistol when arrested.