Inquest opens in to the death of Bond girl Angela Scoular

17-Apr-2011 • Actor News

An inquest into the death of the wife of comic actor Leslie Phillips in west London is due to be opened and adjourned. Angela Scoular - an actress who appeared in two Bond films - died on Monday evening (11th April 2011) at the age of 65. She 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.

Officers said her death was being treated as unexplained and was being investigated.

The inquest will be held at Westminster Coroner's Court in central London.

Scoular married Carry On star Phillips 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 As Time Goes By, in 1996 .

She also played Buttercup in 1966 Bond movie Casino Royale and Ruby Bartlett in 007 adventure 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.