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Accomplished stage, film and television actress Angela Paton, best known to cinemagoers as the inkeeper in Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ms Paton always seemed to have one of “those” faces, the kind of memorable appearance in a film or television show without anybody really knowing her name. Ms Paton’s first role was an uncredited extra in Dirty Harry<\/em>, followed by a number of supporting and extra roles in television and film productions. Her most enduring on-screen film role remains Mrs Lancaster, the landlady of the town’s local inn in which Bill Murray’s omniscient weatherman continued to enjoy habitation, in 1993’s Groundhog Day<\/em>, although numerous bit-parts in popular films continued to follow. She played Mrs Holmes in Adrian Lyne’s ill-fated version of Lolita<\/em>, Faye in The Wedding Singer<\/em> opposite Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and even shared the screen with Jason Biggs and Co in American Wedding<\/em>.<\/p>\n Ms Paton’s television credits are extensive, but include recent appearances in shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name is Earl<\/em>, and Grey’s Anatomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n At the time of her passing on May 26, Angela Paton was 86.<\/p>\n Accomplished stage, film and television actress Angela Paton, best known to cinemagoers as the inkeeper…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":43032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",1128,700,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745-300x186.jpeg",300,186,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745-768x477.jpeg",640,398,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745-720x447.jpeg",640,397,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",1128,700,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",1128,700,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",1024,635,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",540,335,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",24,15,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",48,30,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",96,60,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",150,93,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",300,186,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skynews.img_.1200.745.jpeg",272,169,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Angela](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/angela-paton-dead.jpg\")