Avril Angers
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Avril Angers (18 April 1918 – 9 November 2005) was an English comedian and actor.
She was one of the first stand up comedians, and was equally capable of playing a straight man role as a foil to established (male) comics including Frankie Howerd and Arthur Askey. As her career developed, her accomplished facility for a very wide variety of acting roles became evident.
Angers was born in Liverpool. She worked as a Tiller Girl before joining ENSA during the Second World War, becoming a Forces' sweetheart.
After five years' service she moved back into civilian life and took on many and various roles in television (including Dad's Army, All Creatures Great and Small, Are You Being Served?, and Coronation Street), as well as in film and theatre.
A film still showing Angers in the 1966 The Family Way (starring Hayley Mills) appeared on the sleeve of The Smiths single "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish".
She never married or had children. Angers lived in Covent Garden, and she died in London from pneumonia at the age of 87.
