She married Leslie Phillips in 1982.
Cause of death: she had been suffering from bowel cancer, but an official cause of death has not been released yet
Published on Sunday 1 May 2011
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Below contributed by another member:
Angela Scoular. Actress who starred twice as a 'Bond girl' but who went on to have a prolific career on stage and screen.
Born: 8 November, 1945, in London.
Died: 11 April, 2011, in London, aged 65.
Angela Scoular had the unusual distinction of being not just a Bond girl, but a double Bond girl. But she never got to appear with Scotland's definitive 007, Sean Connery.
Scoular was an enemy agent posing as one of M's daughters in the original 1967 version of Casino Royale, with David Niven. Two years later she was one of the young beauties being brainwashed by Blofeld to unleash biological warfare on the world in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, before Bond turns up in the unlikely form of a kilted George Lazenby.
Casino Royale shot partly in Scotland, though it is unclear whether Scoular would have been involved in the location filming. Nevertheless, she turned her back on the glamour of Hollywood for a while after her outings in the Bond movies, preferring a spell in Scottish theatre.
She joined the Citizens' Theatre Company in Glasgow and appeared in several productions in 1969 and 1970, including Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby.
Although she was in two Bond films, Scoular, who was married to the famous Carry On actor Leslie Phillips, is probably as well known to a different audience as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the sitcom You Rang, M'Lord? in the early 1990s.
She was born, Angela Margaret Scoular, in London, in 1945. Her father was an engineer, but her aunt Margaret Johnston was a well-known actress, who encouraged her acting ambitions. She trained at Rada, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she showed outstanding promise and was cast as the female lead in Romeo and Juliet.
She was the ill-fated Emily in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, which featured such luminaries as Ian McKellen and Flora Robson, and then she won the role of Buttercup in Casino Royale.
The rights to the first Bond book had eluded producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and Columbia Pictures hoped to cash in on the success of the Connery films. They hired an all-star cast, including Orson Welles, Woody Allen and Peter Sellers, and spent a fortune on the film. But they completely misjudged the appeal of 007 with an overt spoof that was overblown and silly.
In this version, M has been killed and Scoular poses as one of his daughters on his Scottish estate. Bond finds her in his bath, wearing a bathcap that looks like a memento Scoular had kept from her time on David Copperfield. She claims she is testing the temperature and tells him she is 17. "What form are you in?" he asks. "Can ye nae judge that for yourself?" she replies. It is possibly the funniest line in the film.The next few years proved exceptionally busy. Scoular appeared in A Countess from Hong Kong, which starred Brando and was directed by Chaplin, played the lead role of Cathy in a four-part TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, had a major role in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and made a guest appearance on The Avengers, among other shows, before linking up with Bond again.
She had a much more significant role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Blofeld (Telly Savalas) is pretending to run a clinic for young women with allergies, but is really brainwashing them. Bond (Lazenby) turns up, pretending to be an expert genealogist.
The young women included Joanna Lumley, Jenny Hanley and Julie Ege.
Her character, Ruby Bartlett, has a mop of hair, wears a green outfit so garish that Tarantino might have balked at it, comes from Lancashire farming stock and brings an unfamiliar provincial working-class dimension to the elegant world of 007. Think Daphne Moon from Frasier, rather than Ursula Andress from Dr No.
Scoular met Leslie Phillips on the set of the 1970 film Doctor in Trouble and then again in 1976 when they did a play together. She was 21 years younger and pregnant with another man's child. They married in 1982 after Phillips' first wife died.
Scoular continued working in film, television and theatre. She was Sue Silcock, one of Ray Langton's girlfriends on Coronation Street in 1972, she appeared in the sex comedies Adventures of a Taxi Driver and Adventures of a Private Eye, was Maud in the family drama series Penmarric and enjoyed one of her biggest successes with upstairs-downstairs comedy You Rang M'Lord, which debuted as a one-off in 1988 and then ran from 1990 to 1993.
Latterly, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and it is believed she committed suicide by drinking toxic chemicals. She is survived by Phillips and by her son.
Cause of death: she had been suffering from bowel cancer, but an official cause of death has not been released yet
Published on Sunday 1 May 2011
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Below contributed by another member:
Angela Scoular. Actress who starred twice as a 'Bond girl' but who went on to have a prolific career on stage and screen.
Born: 8 November, 1945, in London.
Died: 11 April, 2011, in London, aged 65.
Angela Scoular had the unusual distinction of being not just a Bond girl, but a double Bond girl. But she never got to appear with Scotland's definitive 007, Sean Connery.
Scoular was an enemy agent posing as one of M's daughters in the original 1967 version of Casino Royale, with David Niven. Two years later she was one of the young beauties being brainwashed by Blofeld to unleash biological warfare on the world in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, before Bond turns up in the unlikely form of a kilted George Lazenby.
Casino Royale shot partly in Scotland, though it is unclear whether Scoular would have been involved in the location filming. Nevertheless, she turned her back on the glamour of Hollywood for a while after her outings in the Bond movies, preferring a spell in Scottish theatre.
She joined the Citizens' Theatre Company in Glasgow and appeared in several productions in 1969 and 1970, including Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby.
Although she was in two Bond films, Scoular, who was married to the famous Carry On actor Leslie Phillips, is probably as well known to a different audience as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the sitcom You Rang, M'Lord? in the early 1990s.
She was born, Angela Margaret Scoular, in London, in 1945. Her father was an engineer, but her aunt Margaret Johnston was a well-known actress, who encouraged her acting ambitions. She trained at Rada, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she showed outstanding promise and was cast as the female lead in Romeo and Juliet.
She was the ill-fated Emily in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, which featured such luminaries as Ian McKellen and Flora Robson, and then she won the role of Buttercup in Casino Royale.
The rights to the first Bond book had eluded producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and Columbia Pictures hoped to cash in on the success of the Connery films. They hired an all-star cast, including Orson Welles, Woody Allen and Peter Sellers, and spent a fortune on the film. But they completely misjudged the appeal of 007 with an overt spoof that was overblown and silly.
In this version, M has been killed and Scoular poses as one of his daughters on his Scottish estate. Bond finds her in his bath, wearing a bathcap that looks like a memento Scoular had kept from her time on David Copperfield. She claims she is testing the temperature and tells him she is 17. "What form are you in?" he asks. "Can ye nae judge that for yourself?" she replies. It is possibly the funniest line in the film.The next few years proved exceptionally busy. Scoular appeared in A Countess from Hong Kong, which starred Brando and was directed by Chaplin, played the lead role of Cathy in a four-part TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, had a major role in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and made a guest appearance on The Avengers, among other shows, before linking up with Bond again.
She had a much more significant role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Blofeld (Telly Savalas) is pretending to run a clinic for young women with allergies, but is really brainwashing them. Bond (Lazenby) turns up, pretending to be an expert genealogist.
The young women included Joanna Lumley, Jenny Hanley and Julie Ege.
Her character, Ruby Bartlett, has a mop of hair, wears a green outfit so garish that Tarantino might have balked at it, comes from Lancashire farming stock and brings an unfamiliar provincial working-class dimension to the elegant world of 007. Think Daphne Moon from Frasier, rather than Ursula Andress from Dr No.
Scoular met Leslie Phillips on the set of the 1970 film Doctor in Trouble and then again in 1976 when they did a play together. She was 21 years younger and pregnant with another man's child. They married in 1982 after Phillips' first wife died.
Scoular continued working in film, television and theatre. She was Sue Silcock, one of Ray Langton's girlfriends on Coronation Street in 1972, she appeared in the sex comedies Adventures of a Taxi Driver and Adventures of a Private Eye, was Maud in the family drama series Penmarric and enjoyed one of her biggest successes with upstairs-downstairs comedy You Rang M'Lord, which debuted as a one-off in 1988 and then ran from 1990 to 1993.
Latterly, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and it is believed she committed suicide by drinking toxic chemicals. She is survived by Phillips and by her son.
She married Leslie Phillips in 1982.
Cause of death: she had been suffering from bowel cancer, but an official cause of death has not been released yet
Published on Sunday 1 May 2011
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Below contributed by another member:
Angela Scoular. Actress who starred twice as a 'Bond girl' but who went on to have a prolific career on stage and screen.
Born: 8 November, 1945, in London.
Died: 11 April, 2011, in London, aged 65.
Angela Scoular had the unusual distinction of being not just a Bond girl, but a double Bond girl. But she never got to appear with Scotland's definitive 007, Sean Connery.
Scoular was an enemy agent posing as one of M's daughters in the original 1967 version of Casino Royale, with David Niven. Two years later she was one of the young beauties being brainwashed by Blofeld to unleash biological warfare on the world in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, before Bond turns up in the unlikely form of a kilted George Lazenby.
Casino Royale shot partly in Scotland, though it is unclear whether Scoular would have been involved in the location filming. Nevertheless, she turned her back on the glamour of Hollywood for a while after her outings in the Bond movies, preferring a spell in Scottish theatre.
She joined the Citizens' Theatre Company in Glasgow and appeared in several productions in 1969 and 1970, including Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby.
Although she was in two Bond films, Scoular, who was married to the famous Carry On actor Leslie Phillips, is probably as well known to a different audience as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the sitcom You Rang, M'Lord? in the early 1990s.
She was born, Angela Margaret Scoular, in London, in 1945. Her father was an engineer, but her aunt Margaret Johnston was a well-known actress, who encouraged her acting ambitions. She trained at Rada, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she showed outstanding promise and was cast as the female lead in Romeo and Juliet.
She was the ill-fated Emily in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, which featured such luminaries as Ian McKellen and Flora Robson, and then she won the role of Buttercup in Casino Royale.
The rights to the first Bond book had eluded producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and Columbia Pictures hoped to cash in on the success of the Connery films. They hired an all-star cast, including Orson Welles, Woody Allen and Peter Sellers, and spent a fortune on the film. But they completely misjudged the appeal of 007 with an overt spoof that was overblown and silly.
In this version, M has been killed and Scoular poses as one of his daughters on his Scottish estate. Bond finds her in his bath, wearing a bathcap that looks like a memento Scoular had kept from her time on David Copperfield. She claims she is testing the temperature and tells him she is 17. "What form are you in?" he asks. "Can ye nae judge that for yourself?" she replies. It is possibly the funniest line in the film.The next few years proved exceptionally busy. Scoular appeared in A Countess from Hong Kong, which starred Brando and was directed by Chaplin, played the lead role of Cathy in a four-part TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, had a major role in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and made a guest appearance on The Avengers, among other shows, before linking up with Bond again.
She had a much more significant role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Blofeld (Telly Savalas) is pretending to run a clinic for young women with allergies, but is really brainwashing them. Bond (Lazenby) turns up, pretending to be an expert genealogist.
The young women included Joanna Lumley, Jenny Hanley and Julie Ege.
Her character, Ruby Bartlett, has a mop of hair, wears a green outfit so garish that Tarantino might have balked at it, comes from Lancashire farming stock and brings an unfamiliar provincial working-class dimension to the elegant world of 007. Think Daphne Moon from Frasier, rather than Ursula Andress from Dr No.
Scoular met Leslie Phillips on the set of the 1970 film Doctor in Trouble and then again in 1976 when they did a play together. She was 21 years younger and pregnant with another man's child. They married in 1982 after Phillips' first wife died.
Scoular continued working in film, television and theatre. She was Sue Silcock, one of Ray Langton's girlfriends on Coronation Street in 1972, she appeared in the sex comedies Adventures of a Taxi Driver and Adventures of a Private Eye, was Maud in the family drama series Penmarric and enjoyed one of her biggest successes with upstairs-downstairs comedy You Rang M'Lord, which debuted as a one-off in 1988 and then ran from 1990 to 1993.
Latterly, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and it is believed she committed suicide by drinking toxic chemicals. She is survived by Phillips and by her son.
Cause of death: she had been suffering from bowel cancer, but an official cause of death has not been released yet
Published on Sunday 1 May 2011
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Below contributed by another member:
Angela Scoular. Actress who starred twice as a 'Bond girl' but who went on to have a prolific career on stage and screen.
Born: 8 November, 1945, in London.
Died: 11 April, 2011, in London, aged 65.
Angela Scoular had the unusual distinction of being not just a Bond girl, but a double Bond girl. But she never got to appear with Scotland's definitive 007, Sean Connery.
Scoular was an enemy agent posing as one of M's daughters in the original 1967 version of Casino Royale, with David Niven. Two years later she was one of the young beauties being brainwashed by Blofeld to unleash biological warfare on the world in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, before Bond turns up in the unlikely form of a kilted George Lazenby.
Casino Royale shot partly in Scotland, though it is unclear whether Scoular would have been involved in the location filming. Nevertheless, she turned her back on the glamour of Hollywood for a while after her outings in the Bond movies, preferring a spell in Scottish theatre.
She joined the Citizens' Theatre Company in Glasgow and appeared in several productions in 1969 and 1970, including Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby.
Although she was in two Bond films, Scoular, who was married to the famous Carry On actor Leslie Phillips, is probably as well known to a different audience as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the sitcom You Rang, M'Lord? in the early 1990s.
She was born, Angela Margaret Scoular, in London, in 1945. Her father was an engineer, but her aunt Margaret Johnston was a well-known actress, who encouraged her acting ambitions. She trained at Rada, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she showed outstanding promise and was cast as the female lead in Romeo and Juliet.
She was the ill-fated Emily in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, which featured such luminaries as Ian McKellen and Flora Robson, and then she won the role of Buttercup in Casino Royale.
The rights to the first Bond book had eluded producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and Columbia Pictures hoped to cash in on the success of the Connery films. They hired an all-star cast, including Orson Welles, Woody Allen and Peter Sellers, and spent a fortune on the film. But they completely misjudged the appeal of 007 with an overt spoof that was overblown and silly.
In this version, M has been killed and Scoular poses as one of his daughters on his Scottish estate. Bond finds her in his bath, wearing a bathcap that looks like a memento Scoular had kept from her time on David Copperfield. She claims she is testing the temperature and tells him she is 17. "What form are you in?" he asks. "Can ye nae judge that for yourself?" she replies. It is possibly the funniest line in the film.The next few years proved exceptionally busy. Scoular appeared in A Countess from Hong Kong, which starred Brando and was directed by Chaplin, played the lead role of Cathy in a four-part TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, had a major role in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and made a guest appearance on The Avengers, among other shows, before linking up with Bond again.
She had a much more significant role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Blofeld (Telly Savalas) is pretending to run a clinic for young women with allergies, but is really brainwashing them. Bond (Lazenby) turns up, pretending to be an expert genealogist.
The young women included Joanna Lumley, Jenny Hanley and Julie Ege.
Her character, Ruby Bartlett, has a mop of hair, wears a green outfit so garish that Tarantino might have balked at it, comes from Lancashire farming stock and brings an unfamiliar provincial working-class dimension to the elegant world of 007. Think Daphne Moon from Frasier, rather than Ursula Andress from Dr No.
Scoular met Leslie Phillips on the set of the 1970 film Doctor in Trouble and then again in 1976 when they did a play together. She was 21 years younger and pregnant with another man's child. They married in 1982 after Phillips' first wife died.
Scoular continued working in film, television and theatre. She was Sue Silcock, one of Ray Langton's girlfriends on Coronation Street in 1972, she appeared in the sex comedies Adventures of a Taxi Driver and Adventures of a Private Eye, was Maud in the family drama series Penmarric and enjoyed one of her biggest successes with upstairs-downstairs comedy You Rang M'Lord, which debuted as a one-off in 1988 and then ran from 1990 to 1993.
Latterly, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and it is believed she committed suicide by drinking toxic chemicals. She is survived by Phillips and by her son.
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