Rachel Roberts

Roberts committed suicide by barbiturate poisoning in Los Angeles, California. See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Other movies include Our Man in Havana, A Flea in Her Ear, Doctors' Wives, Wild Rovers, O Lucky Man!, Murder on the Orient Express, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Yanks and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen. Athole Shearer died in 1985 in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She starred in 1963's This Sporting Life, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She spent many years in mental institutions until her illness was properly diagnosed. In 1962 she married Rex Harrison. They were divorced in 1971. Although she was the most attractive of the two Shearer sisters, her film career was limited to a few bit parts because of her personal difficulties.

Born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, she debuted in movies in 1953 in The Limping Man, but she became well-known by her 1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, in which she appeared opposite Albert Finney. Athole Shearer suffered from bipolar disorder that went unrecognized for years resulting in her suffering numerous problems. Rachel Roberts (September 20, 1927 - November 26, 1980) was a British actress. They divorced twelve years later in 1940 at a turbulent time for Hawks who had been fired by studio owner Howard Hughes as the director of the film The Outlaw. In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. Divorced, in 1928 she married again, this time to noted film director Howard Hawks (1896-1977). As a teenager, her divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film roll.

Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec. Athole Shearer (November 20, 1900 - March 17, 1985) was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer. The Flapper (1920). Way Down East (1920).

The Restless Sex (1920).