Who Are Those Gals? ~ Angela Douglas

 

Angela Josephine MacDonagh was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, U.K. on October 29. 1940. She started acting as a teenager, joining the Worthing, West Sussex 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”, and then appeared with Tommy Steele in “It's All Happening”. She is best remembered for her roles in several 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 programs. 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” (1973), and “The Four Feathers” (2002).

Her television credits have included ‘Gideon's Way’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘The Saint’; in which she played Jenny Turner, a psychology student in the episode ‘The Death Game’, ‘Z-Cars’,’29 Dixon of Dock Green’, ‘Jason King’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Holby City’, ‘Coronation Street’, and ‘Doctor at Large’.

After her husband Kenneth More [1914-1982] 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’ (1989), ‘Peak Practice’ and ‘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’. She has since concentrated on a career in journalism and writing, having completed two books, including the autobiographical Swings and Roundabouts.

In October 2018 her debut novel, Josephine: An Open Book was published. It is fictional but partly based on her own experiences.

DOUGLAS, Angela (Angela Josephine MacDonagh) [10/29/1940, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, U.K. -     ] – theater, film, TV actress, singer, married to actor Kenneth More (Kenneth Gilbert More) [1914-1982] (1968-1982), married to producer, director, writer, Bill Bryden (William Campbell Rough Bryden) [1942-2022] (2009-2020).

Carry on Cowboy – 1965 (Annie Oakley)