Birth and Career
Dowding was born on 20 April 1919 in Hanwell, London to Charles Dowding (1887 - 1969), a second lieutenant of the Somerset Light Infantry from Dulwich; and his wife Lilian Lawler (1887 - 1959) originally from St Marylebone. Angela studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama before starring in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit in the West End, and the film Miss London Ltd.
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