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Angela Scoular (1945-2011)

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edited April 2011 in News Posts: 677
Leslie Phillips' wife Angela Scoular has died at the age of 65 - reports <a href = "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iJt1z1t_837YcnsTKmeQNFlHnoKg?docId=N0543701302605829680A"; target = "_blank">AP</a>.

Angela - an actress who appeared in two Bond films - had been suffering from bowel cancer.

She was taken to hospital from an address in Maida Vale, west London, after police were called at about 1.50pm.

A police spokesman said: "Ambulance services attended and the woman was taken to a central London hospital where she was pronounced dead at 17.28.

"Next of kin are aware. A post-mortem will be held in due course. Her death is currently being treated as unexplained and officers from Westminster are investigating."

Angela married Carry On star Leslie in 1982. She played Lady Agatha Shawcross in the TV series You Rang, M'Lord? and Cathy in a 1967 production of Wuthering Heights.

Other credits include The Avengers, Penmarric and in 1996 in As Time Goes By.

She appeared in two Bond films - as Buttercup in Casino Royale in 1966 and as Ruby Bartlett in On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969. Other film roles included A Countess From Hong Kong (1967), featuring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) and British comedy Doctor In Trouble, in which Phillips also starred, in 1970.

A representative for the actor said: "It is with great sadness that we must confirm Leslie Phillips' wife Angela Phillips (nee Scoular) passed away yesterday.

"The family have requested that their privacy is respected at this difficult time."
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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Sad news. May she rest in peace.

    http://i2.listal.com/image/1286342/500full.jpg

    I always liked Ruby.
  • LudsLuds MIA
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    Ruby was a dog!

    Buttercups was slightly better!

    But always sad news when a Bond veteran passes away.
  • BounineBounine
    edited April 2011 Posts: 2,599
    Oh, what a shame. "Ruby Bartlett from Lancashire". It always amuses me the way she wrote her room number in lipstick on Bond's leg. I liked her. Attractive woman. She did a great job in adding some comic relief to certain scenes in this film. It's always a joy to watch her. I would have liked to have met her. I feel sad about this. Rest In Peace Angela.

    Maida Vale is in North London, not West.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    Posts: 3,262
    RIP, Miss Scoular :-(

    Her Ruby was the funniest character in OHMSS. Her laugh was a delight. Although it wasn't a large role, it would've been a poorer film without her contributions in the role.
  • WillardWhyteWillardWhyte Midnight Society #ProjectMoon
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    RIP
  • St_GeorgeSt_George Shuttling Drax's lovelies to the space doughnut - happy 40th, MR!
    edited April 2011 Posts: 1,699
    Of all the Bond deaths that have come in recent years, maybe even including John Barry's just two or so months ago, I must confess this one has saddened most of all.

    Those on here who have long-ish memories may recall that Angela Scoular's Ruby in OHMSS has always been something of a must with me. It seems, at least on here, the character has an almost Marmite-like quality about it, but I love Ruby for the free-wheeling, free-living living, oh-so Swinging Sixties vibe that the lovely Angela gave her. Her role as Buttercup in CR '67 was good fun too, no question. And another role that Angela played in that period, similar in style and loveliness to Ruby, came in Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (1968), which I highly recommend checking out if you're at all an enthusiast of her work in Bond.

    Angela Scoular undoubtedly was a talented light actress, whom one suspects would have been as beautiful and charming a person in real life as she appeared on-screen. That old smoothie Leslie Phillips (another loveable British thesp) obviously thought so, as he was the lucky one to snare her and marry her. My thoughts go out to him and her family tonight. Like Bounine said above, I'm sad I'll now never have the chance to meet her. As I said, perhaps this death has affected me more than that of the great John Barry - and the reason is that he left us at the age of 77; to pass on aged only 65 is surely too young.

    So RIP, Angela - Heaven truly has been blessed with yet another angel.

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  • BondBond
    Posts: 503
    Aw wow, she was definitely the sexiest Bond girl in OHMSS. Very sad news indeed.
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
    Posts: 2,634
    Sad news to see she is gone. She was a highlight in OHMSS and CR (1967). May she rest in peace... :-((
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    Posts: 2,629
    I understand that she wasn't doing well lately. Still a sad loss for a great contributor to one of the best Bond films of all time.

    May she RIP.
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    I always really liked her character Ruby Barlett in OHMSS, she was such a refreshing change to the sterotypical Bond girls of the era, funny, lovable, warm and openly ditzy ( as opposed to the 'unintentionally thick' portrayel of the average bulk standard pit part Bond girls ). Very sad to hear of her death.
  • BondBond
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    Gorgeous
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  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    Posts: 7,584
    Yes I saw that picture when I googled her earlier @Bond. She was very pretty, just a shame about the hairstyle she had in OHMSS.

    St George said it all really.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited April 2011 Posts: 11,189
    What a shame. I just saw this in the paper and my mouth dropped when I realised it was her. She gave her character a real sparkle and warmth and (yes) upstaged Lazenby with relative ease.

    I also feel sorry for Leslie Philips.

    Ps. Luds, Ruby wasn't a dog - as you so bluntly put it. However that hair did her no favours ;)

    RIP
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited April 2011 Posts: 4,537
    And then imagine her husband celebrate his 87th birthday next Wednesday. Whyle see already be in OHMSS i have consider her to play Moneypenny.

    Rip :L
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    Good point Balje, she certainly would have made a very good Moneypenny.
  • LudsLuds MIA
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    Quoting BAIN123: Ps. Luds, Ruby wasn't a dog - as you so bluntly put it. However that hair did her no favours ;)
    Agreed. Poodle hair, and 90 year old woman's glasses ;)
  • BondBond
    edited April 2011 Posts: 503
    Sad new information coming in...

    Apparently her death was a suicide, she ingested deadly chemicals as a means of escaping the torment of her bowel cancer. Her husband said that her cancer had "removed her will to live".

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376148/Police-investigating-Leslie-Phillipss-Bond-girl-wife-Angela-Scoular-dies.html

    :-(
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,723
    Another suicide of an ex-cast member of the franchise? (Pedro Armendariz, Herve Villechaize...)
  • DiscoVolanteDiscoVolante Stockholm, Sweden
    Posts: 1,347
    Very sad :(

  • CipherCipher
    Posts: 128
    Very sad news indeed. Ruby is one of my favourite characters from the movies. Hopefully Miss Scoular's family can take some solace from the fact that she isn't suffering anymore, but these are truly tragic circumstances.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    Indeed this is very sad news. A great character in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Scoular seemed like a very nice person.

    RIP.
  • BondBond
    Posts: 503
    Quoting DaltonCraig007: Another suicide of an ex-cast member of the franchise? (Pedro Armendariz, Herve Villechaize...)
    Interesting coincidence that Armendariz committed suicide due to his cancer as well.
  • lalala2004lalala2004
    Posts: 162
    Sad that she went that way :-(

    I've never been a big Ruby fan, but her character did always make me laugh, and the lipstick to write her room number is pretty classic.

    RIP
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,423
    RIP
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,999
    Not a fan, it must be said. But still, RIP, it's always sad to hear of the passing of someone from the Bondverse.

    Also, I never knew she was married to Leslie Phillips.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited April 2011 Posts: 24,255
    I hope she didn't suffer too much in the final minutes of her life. Using chemicals without at least some scientific consideration of quantities could lead to serious pains. I really hope she spent the final moments of her life in some degree of comfort. Knowing that all is right.
  • ShakenNotStirredShakenNotStirred
    Posts: 1,399
    Sad to hear. RIP!
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    Quoting DaltonCraig007:
    Another suicide of an ex-cast member of the franchise? (Pedro
    Armendariz, Herve Villechaize...)
    Along with Jill Bennett and Michael Gothard.
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    Posts: 2,629
    This is even sadder with Angela comitting suicide. I couldn't even imagine what she was going through with her cancer. To echo DarthDimi, I hope she was in comfort and at peace during her last few moments alive.
  • quantumofsolacequantumofsolace England
    Posts: 279
    I'm so sorry to hear this tragic news. Angela was fantastic in OHMSS, making Ruby one of my favourite Bond girls ever. She was absolutely lovely - a beautiful and talented lady who will never be forgotten. RIP.
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