As per our current Database, Angela Baddeley has been died on 22 February 1976(1976-02-22) (aged 71)\nGrayshott, Hampshire, England, UK.
When Angela Baddeley die, Angela Baddeley was 71 years old.
| Popular As | Angela Baddeley |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 71 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 04, 1904 ( West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom) |
| Birthday | July 04 |
| Town/City | West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Angela Baddeley’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Angela Baddeley was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Born as Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley in West Ham, Essex in 1904 into a wealthy family, she would later base the character of Mrs. Bridges on one of the cooks her family employed. Her younger sister was Actress Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986), who is known to American audiences for such appearances as on NBC's Little House on the Prairie.
In 1912, aged 8, Angela made her stage début at the Dalston Palace of Varieties, Dalston, in a play called The Dawn of Happiness. When she was nine, she auditioned at the Old Vic Theatre. In November 1915 she made her stage début at the Old Vic in Richard III, and she subsequently appeared in many other Shakespeare plays.
During her teenage years, the "consummate little actress", as a national paper had once called her when she was 10, starred in many musicals and pantomimes. She briefly 'retired' from acting at age 18. Her first marriage, to Stephen Thomas, produced one daughter. On 8 July 1929 she married actor/stage Director Glen Byam Shaw; they had two children, a son and a daughter.
After spending some time touring in Australia, 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. Later in the decade, Baddeley had a role in the MGM-British film, The Citadel (1938), an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel directed by King Vidor. Throughout the 1940s, she played many strong female roles on stage, including Miss Prue in Love for Love and Nora in The Winslow Boy.
She played the bawd in Tony Richardson's production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958. She played Mistress Quickly in several episodes of the BBC Shakespeare history series An Age of Kings, performing with her sister Hermione as Doll Tearsheet. In the original version of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–75) she played "Mrs Bridges", the resident cook at 165 Eaton Place, who, when the show ended, married the butler, "Angus Hudson". A possible spin-off was in the works featuring Mrs. Bridges' married life with Mr. Hudson and her long-time kitchen maid Ruby Finch, but she died before it was developed and filmed. Baddeley replaced Hermione Gingold in the second cast of the original London run of the musical A Little Night Music.
She was made a CBE in 1975 for "services to the theatre". She died at Grayshott Hall in 1976 from pneumonia at age 71, shortly after Upstairs, Downstairs ended its run. She is interred, along with her husband Glen Byam Shaw, at St Mary's Church, Wargrave, Berkshire.
