Angela Douglas
Biography
Angela Douglas is an English actress from Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, who began in a repertory company in Worthing, West Sussex, as a teenager and made her West End theater debut in 1958. Her first screen parts were small, a non-speaking film debut in The Shakedown and a role opposite Tommy Steele in It's All Happening, but she became best known for 1960s Carry On films, playing a singing, trigger-happy Annie Oakley in Carry On Cowboy (1965) and appearing in Carry On Screaming! (1966), Follow That Camel and Carry On Up the Khyber (1968). Later films include The Comedy Man, Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World and The Four Feathers (2002), and her television work spans The Avengers, The Saint, Doctor Who, Casualty and Coronation Street; she returned to acting in the Doctor Who serial Battlefield in 1989. She has since concentrated on journalism and writing, completing two books including the autobiography Swings and Roundabouts.
86years old
Turns 87 on October 29in 351 days
- Born Gerrards Cross
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Angela Josephine MacDonagh (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 37 years1965 to 2002
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Early training
As a teenager, Angela Douglas joined a repertory company in Worthing, West Sussex, and in 1958 she made her West End theater debut.
First role
Douglas made her film debut in 1959 in The Shakedown, a part with no speaking, and after that she appeared with Tommy Steele in It's All Happening.
Behind the camera
Douglas has since focused on a career in journalism and writing. She has finished two books, one of them the autobiography Swings and Roundabouts.
Behind the camera
Douglas's first novel, Josephine: An Open Book, came out in October 2018. The book is a work of fiction, though parts of it draw on things she has lived through.
Angela Douglas movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- That's Carry On!1977as Lady Jane Ponsonby / Annie Oakley / Doris Mann / Princess Jelhi
IMDb rating 5.3696 votes
Most often with
Gerald Thomas directed five of these films. Three actors appear in five of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Gerald ThomasDirector, 5 films, 1965 to 1977
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