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{{Infobox person
| name = Angela Douglas
| image = Angela Douglas.jpg
| caption = 
| birth_name = Angela McDonagh
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|10|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Gerrards Cross]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| occupation = Actress
| othername = ''Shrimp''
| website = 
| spouse = 
{{Marriage|[[Kenneth More]]|1968|1982|end=d.}}
{{Marriage|[[Bill Bryden]]|2009|2022|end=d.}}
}}

'''Angela Douglas''' (born 29 October 1940), born '''Angela McDonagh''', is an English actress.

==Early life==
Douglas was born in [[Gerrards Cross]], Buckinghamshire.

==Career==
Douglas started acting as a teenager, joining the [[Worthing]], West Sussex [[repertory theatre|repertory]] company, before making her West End theatre debut in 1958.

Douglas made an uncredited appearance as an audience member in the 1958 film version of [[Six-Five Special]]. She made her (non-speaking) film debut in 1959 in ''[[The Shakedown (1959 film)|The Shakedown]]'', and then appeared with [[Tommy Steele]] in ''[[It's All Happening (film)|It's All Happening]]''. She is best remembered for her roles in several ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On Films]]'' in the 1960s, including ''[[Carry On Cowboy]]'' (1965) as an all-singing and trigger-happy version of [[Annie Oakley]]. She then appeared in ''[[Carry On Screaming!]]'' (1966), ''[[Follow That Camel]]'' (1967) and ''[[Carry On Up the Khyber]]'' (1968). She has, by virtue of this association, appeared on many retrospective and spin-off programmes. Douglas made an appearance in [[North Wales]] in September 2005 to unveil a plaque dedicated to the filming of ''Carry On Up the Khyber,'' as part of the movie had been shot in [[Llanberis]].

Her other films have included ''[[The Comedy Man]]'' (1964), ''[[Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World|Digby]]'' (1973), and ''[[The Four Feathers (2002 film)|The Four Feathers]]'' (2002).

Her television credits have included ''[[Gideon's Way]]'', ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]''; in which she played Jenny Turner, a psychology student in the episode ''The Death Game,'' ''[[Z-Cars]]'', ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'', ''[[Jason King (TV series)|Jason King]]'', ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', ''[[Holby City]]'', ''[[Coronation Street]]'',<ref>Nown, Graham ed.(1985). Coronation Street 1960–1985:  25 years, CBC Enterprises, 1986. {{ISBN|0-88794-231-8}} photo with brief description of cameo role p203.</ref> and ''[[Doctor at Large (TV series)|Doctor at Large]]''.

After her husband [[Kenneth More]] was diagnosed with [[Parkinson's disease]], she put her career on hold, after 11 episodes of ''[[Oil Strike North]].'' After More's death, she returned in various roles, including Doris Lethbridge-Stewart in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Battlefield (Doctor Who)|Battlefield]]'' (1989), ''[[Peak Practice]]'' and ''[[Soldier, Soldier|Soldier]]'',  in the episode "Band of Gold", which featured [[Robson & Jerome]] singing in an impromptu wedding band. She played the part of Isobel Trimble in the third series of ''[[Cardiac Arrest (TV series)|Cardiac Arrest]]''. She has since concentrated on a career in journalism and writing, having completed two books, including the autobiographical ''Swings and Roundabouts''.<ref name="Indp1"/>

In October 2018 her debut novel, "Josephine: An Open Book" was published. It is fictional but partly based on her own experiences.{{cn|date=June 2021}}

==Personal life==
Douglas met fellow actor [[Kenneth More]] on the set of ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]'' in [[Bristol]] in 1962. After starting an affair, More divorced his wife, and the couple married on 17 March 1968 until his death on 12 July 1982.

In 1988, Douglas met Scottish playwright and director [[Bill Bryden]] at a dinner party arranged by mutual friend [[Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)|Marsha Hunt]].<ref name="Indp1">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-bill-bryden-and-angela-douglas-1376274.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-bill-bryden-and-angela-douglas-1376274.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=How We Met: Bill Bryden and Angela Douglas|work=The Independent|date=14 August 1994|accessdate=9 May 2009 | location=London | first=Sue | last=Fox}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They married in 2009. Bryden died on 5 January 2022.

==Selected filmography==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class = "unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1959
| ''[[The Shakedown (1959 film)|The Shakedown]]''
| Model
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Feet of Clay (1960 film)|Feet of Clay]]''
| Diana White
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1961
| ''[[The Wind of Change (film)|The Wind of Change]]''
| Denise
|
|-
| ''[[Don't Bother to Knock (1961 film)|Don't Bother to Knock]]''
| Girl in Gallery
| uncredited
|-
| ''[[The Gentle Terror]]''
| Nancy
|
|-
| ''[[Murder in Eden (film)|Murder in Eden]]''
| Beatnik
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1962
| ''[[Fate Takes a Hand]]''
| Secretary
|
|-
| ''[[Design for Loving]]''
| Bernie's secretary
|
|-
| ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]''
| Terry
|
|-
| 1963
| ''[[It's All Happening (film)|It's All Happening]]''
| Julie Singleton
|
|-
| 1964
| ''[[The Comedy Man]]''
| Fay Trubshaw
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1965
| ''[[John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!]]''
| Mandy – Harem Girl
| uncredited
|-
| ''[[Carry On Cowboy]]''
| Annie Oakley
|
|-
| ''[[Gideons Way]]'' Episode: "Morna"
| Morna Copthorne
|
|-
| 1966
| ''[[Carry On Screaming!]]''
| Doris Mann
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1967
| ''[[Maroc 7]]''
| Freddie
|
|-
| ''[[Follow That Camel]]''
| Lady Jane Ponsonby
|
|-
| ''[[Wuthering Heights (1967 TV series)|Wuthering Heights]]''
| Isabella Linton
| 3 episodes
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Carry On Up the Khyber]]''
| Princess Jelhi
|
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World]]''
| Janine
|
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Father Brown (1974 TV series)|Father Brown]]''
| Petra Merton
|
|-
| 1982
| ''[[Third Time Lucky (TV series)|Third Time Lucky]]''
| 	 Millie King
| 4 episodes
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Doctor Who]]''
| Doris
| 2 episodes 
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet]]''
| Attendant to Gertrude
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Shadow Run (film)|Shadow Run]]''
| Bridget
|
|-
| 1999
| ''[[This Year's Love]]''
| Annabel
|
|-
| 2001
| ''[[South Kensington (film)|South Kensington]]''
| Camila's Mother
|
|-
| 2002
| ''[[The Four Feathers (2002 film)|The Four Feathers]]''
| Aunt Mary
|
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0234946|name=Angela Douglas}}
* [http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=4810 Angela Douglas at Aveleyman]

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[[Category:1940 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Actresses from Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:English film actresses]]
[[Category:English stage actresses]]
[[Category:English television actresses]]
[[Category:People from Gerrards Cross]]