Angela Baddeley
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Angela Baddeley CBE | |
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![]() Angela Baddeley (1938) | |
Born | Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley 4 July 1904 |
Died | 22 February 1976 , England | (aged 71)
Occupation | Actress |
Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley
Early life
Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley was born in West Ham, Essex (now London) in 1904 into a wealthy family; she would later base the character of Mrs. Bridges on one of the cooks her family employed.[1] Her younger sister was actress Hermione Baddeley.
In 1912, Angela and Hermione enrolled as pupils at
During her teenage years, the "consummate little actress", as a national newspaper had once called her when she was 10, starred in many musicals and pantomimes.[1] She briefly 'retired' from acting at age 18. Her first marriage, to Stephen Thomas, produced one daughter. On 8 July 1929[4] she married actor/stage director Glen Byam Shaw; they had two children, a son and a daughter.[1]
After spending some time in Australia touring Barrie comedies,[5] Baddeley established herself as a popular stage actress. At the beginning of the 1930s she appeared in two films, the Sherlock Holmes tale, The Speckled Band (1931), featuring Raymond Massey as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth, and in The Ghost Train (also 1931), a screen version of the successful stage thriller. Throughout the 1940s, she played many strong female roles on stage, including Miss Prue in Love for Love and Nora in The Winslow Boy.
Later years
She played the bawd in
She received a CBE in 1975 for "services to the theatre".[1] She died at Grayshott Hall in 1976 from influenza and bronchitis aged 71, shortly after Upstairs, Downstairs ended its run.
Family
She was the grandmother of Charles Hart, lyricist of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera. She was the sister of actress Hermione Baddeley and a half-sister of the clergyman Bill Baddeley.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1931 | The Speckled Band | Helen Stonor | |
1931 | The Ghost Train | Julia Price | |
1932 | Arms and the Man | Louka | |
1934 | Those Were the Days | Charlotte Verrinder | |
1938 | The Citadel | ||
1948 | Quartet | Mrs. Garnet | (segment "The Facts of Life") |
1957 | No Time for Tears | Mrs. Harris | |
1957 | Zoo Baby | Mrs. Ramsey | |
1963 | Tom Jones | Mrs. Wilkins |
References
- ^ TV Times. 1976.
- OCLC 1061862444.
- ^ Angela Baddeley, ‘Since I Left the MMM School’, Margaret Morris Movement News Bulletin (November 1975), Fergusson Gallery, Perth.
- ^ Sassoon, Siegfried (1929). Journal MS Add.9852/1/29. Cambridge University Library Manuscripts Department: archive material. pp. 137 verso.
- The Weekly Times. No. 3671. Victoria, Australia. 5 February 1938. p. 50. Retrieved 24 September 2022 – via National Library of Australia.