Avril Angers (born "Florence Avril Angers" on 18th April 1918 in Liverpool, died 8th November 2005 in Camden, London) played Norah Dawson in Coronation Street in January 1961 and reappeared in the programme as Sylvia Crozier in April 1990.
In her youth she was a Tiller Girl and she served with ENSA during World War II. She was a comedian and actress with a career stretching over fifty years. On television, she also appeared in How Do You View?, Friends and Neighbours, Dear Dotty, Armchair Theatre, Bright's Boffins, Dad's Army, The More We Are Together, The Liver Birds, ...And Mother Makes Five, No Appointment Necessary, Odd Man Out, Are You Being Served?, Just Liz, Minder, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Making Out, All Creatures Great and Small, The Tomorrow People and Common As Muck.
Her many film roles included Brass Monkey, Skimpy in the Navy, Miss Pilgrim's Progress, Don't Blame The Stork, Women Without Men, The Green Man, Lightfingers, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Be My Guest, The Family Way, Three Bites of the Apple, Two a Penny, The Best House in London and There's a Girl in My Soup.
Stage roles included Keep Going, Mary Had a Little, The Night Life of a Virile Potato, Little Me, I'll Get My Man, A Talent to Amuse, The Mating Game, Cockie, Norman, Is That You?, The Killing of Sister George, Cluedo, When We Are Married, Easy Virtue and Crazy For You.
Like Patricia Phoenix, an image of her was used on the cover of a record by The Smiths (specifically, I Started Something I Couldn't Finish). She never married or had children and died of pneumonia. When The Stage reported her death, they described her as a 'comedy great'.
