Angela Paton (January 11, 1930 – May 26, 2016)[3] was an American stage, film, and television actress and theatre director.
She appeared in stage performances, and in comedy, drama, and thriller films, in roles including Mrs. Lancaster, the innkeeper, in Groundhog Day (1993) and Grandma in American Wedding (2003).
Described as a "natural comic"[4] and one of the "legends of the local stage" of San Francisco,[5] she was a veteran of the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)
in the early 1970s, Paton and her husband founded and ran the Berkeley Stage Company for a number of years.
Paton lived in Los Angeles with her husband, Bob Goldsby,[7] a professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Drama, a stage director with A.C.T., and first director of its conservatory program.