Personal life and death[edit]

In 1970 he married the Hon. Deborah Morris, a potter, who was a daughter of IOC President Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. They had two children, Dillon and Mary Kate. The couple divorced in 1988.


In the same year, he met actress Angela Douglas at a dinner party arranged by mutual friend Marsha Hunt.^[4] They lived together in west London and were married at City Hall, New York City, in February 2009.^[5]


National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1316/11) with Bill Bryden in 2009 for its Legacy of the English Stage Company collection held by the British Library.^[6]


Bryden died on 5 January 2022, at the age of 79.^[7]