Heather Angel Biography

Fast Facts

• Made her screen acting debut in the film "The City of Song" in 1930
• Started out as a stage actress in a number of bit Shakespearean roles at the Old Vic theater in the mid-1920s
• Appeared as a mother who throws herself overboard after her baby dies in the Alfred Hitchcock film "Lifeboat" in 1944
• Was the voice of Alice's Sister in "Alice in Wonderland" and of Mrs․ Darling in "Peter Pan․"
• Best known for her role as Mary McPhillip in "The Informer" and as Rosa Bud in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood․"
• Played the role of Phyllis Clavering in the "Bulldog Drummond" film series in the late 1930s
• Screen tested for the role of Melanie in "Gone with the Wind," which ultimately went to Olivia de Havilland