Angela Clarke (August 14, 1909 â€" December 16, 2010) was an American
stage, television and film actress.Clarke appeared in over thirty
films throughout her forty-year career, usually in bit parts or in
background roles, uncredited. Films in which she made a large
impression included The Seven Little Foys, in which she played a large
supporting role as Bob Hope's disapproving sister-in-law, House of
Wax, (1953) A Double Life, The Gunfighter and The Miracle of Our Lady
of Fatima.Angela Clarke, despite entering the film business in her
early forties (in 1949's The Undercover Man), cornered the market for
grey-haired, matriarchal motherly-types (such as her role as Mama
Caruso in The Great Caruso).Clarke died, aged 101, in Moorpark,
California.
stage, television and film actress.Clarke appeared in over thirty
films throughout her forty-year career, usually in bit parts or in
background roles, uncredited. Films in which she made a large
impression included The Seven Little Foys, in which she played a large
supporting role as Bob Hope's disapproving sister-in-law, House of
Wax, (1953) A Double Life, The Gunfighter and The Miracle of Our Lady
of Fatima.Angela Clarke, despite entering the film business in her
early forties (in 1949's The Undercover Man), cornered the market for
grey-haired, matriarchal motherly-types (such as her role as Mama
Caruso in The Great Caruso).Clarke died, aged 101, in Moorpark,
California.
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