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Angela Paton dead: ‘Groundhog Day,’ ‘American Wedding’ actress was 86
Angela Paton, right, appears in a scene from the 1993 movie ‘Groundhog Day’ with Bill Murray.
“Groundhog Day” star Angela Paton is dead at age 86, her nephew announced to the Associated Press. The actress died Thursday in Oakland while in hospice care after a recent heart attack.
Paton was best known for playing Mrs. Lancaster, the sweet, elderly innkeeper at the Punxsutawney bed-and-breakfast where Bill Murray’s weatherman character Phil Connors stayed in the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day.” As Connors relives the same day over and over, her repeated questions generate amusing interactions.
“Do you ever have deja vu, Mrs. Lancaster?” Murray’s character asks at one point.