Heather Angel (actress)

Heather Angel
from the trailer for the film Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
Born	Heather Grace Angel (1909-02-09)9 February 1909 Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Died	13 December 1986(1986-12-13) (aged 77) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Cancer
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1926–1979
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 (No. 120988) in 1944.

Angel was born in Headington, Oxford, England, 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).

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

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. 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). 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. 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.