Editing Henry Wilcoxon (section)

==Personal life==
Through loans from the assets he acquired from his early acting career, Wilcoxon assisted his brother Owen in establishing himself in 1931 as a partner in the Vale Motor Company in London. For a short time, Henry showed a personal interest in the development of their sports car, the [[Vale Special]]. At that time his female companion was a London-based American stage actress [[Carol Goodner]].<ref>David Cox, ''Ave Atque Vale'', pp.13, 26</ref>

English-born actress [[Heather Angel (actress)|Heather Angel]], whom he had previously acted with in ''[[Self Made Lady]]'' (1932) when they were both in England, had come to Hollywood a few months before Wilcoxon and met him again in 1934.<ref>''Lionheart in Hollywood'', p.6</ref> They became lifetime friends.<ref>Statements made on certain movie websites that Heather Angel and Henry Wilcoxon were married are spurious. No such marriage is mentioned in Henry's autobiography ''Lionheart in Hollywood''.</ref> She taught him horse-riding, and acted in two more films with him: ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1936) and ''[[That Hamilton Woman|Lady Hamilton]]'' (1941). Heather Angel and her husband [[Ralph Forbes]] were both present at Wilcoxon's wedding to Sheila Garrett.

Wilcoxon married a 19-year-old actress [[Sheila Browning|Sheila Garrett]] on 28 June 1936, but they divorced a year later. When they had first met, two years before they were married, she was introduced by her sister [[Lynn Browning]] as "Bonnie", but when they got to know each other better he preferred the name Sheila Garrett.<ref>''Lionheart in Hollywood'', pp.69&ndash;70</ref>

On 17 December 1938, he married 23 year old actress [[Joan Woodbury]].<ref>''Lionheart in Hollywood'', p.114</ref> They had three daughters: Wendy Joan Robert Wilcoxon (1939–2020),<ref>On 21 June 1940, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hollywood, Henry and Joan Wilcoxon's daughter, first named Wendy Joan Wilcoxon was christened Wendy Joan Robert Wilcoxon in memory of his brother Robert Owen Wilcoxon who had been killed at the Dunkirk Evacuation three weeks earlier</ref> Heather Ann Wilcoxon (1947) and Cecilia Dawn "CiCi" Wilcoxon (1950).<ref name="Whizzbang13"/> His second daughter was named after Heather Angel.<ref>''Lionheart in Hollywood'', p.160</ref> His youngest daughter was named after Cecil B. DeMille: DeMille said he wanted the child to be called Cecil if it was a boy, but when it turned out to be a girl, DeMille was still insistent, saying "I think Cecilia is a beautiful name! My daughter is named Cecilia."<ref>''Lionheart in Hollywood'', pp.196&ndash;197</ref>  They divorced in 1969.<ref>''Lionheart in Hollywood'', p.351</ref>
 
Wilcoxon was an amateur painter and photographer, whose work was exhibited on at least one occasion in London.<ref name="Whizzbang13"/> He was also "an avid [[antique]] collector and accomplished flier."<ref name="Whizzbang13"/>

At his home in [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] in the summer of 1975 Wilcoxon first met his niece Valerie (1933–2017), the English daughter of his brother Owen<ref>Sub-Lieut. Robert Owen Wilcoxon of the [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]], only brother of Henry Wilcoxon, assisted in the Dunkirk evacuation on 29 May 1940; but, having helped to get hundreds of Allied troops off the beach to safety in his assault landing craft, he was fatally injured when, after returning to the sloop HMS Bideford to arrange a tow back to Dover, the ship had its stern blown off by a bomb dropped from a dive-bombing German aircraft. This must have been on Wilcoxon's mind during the making of the film [[Mrs. Miniver]]. This event is reported in the book ''The Evacuation from Dunkirk, 'Operation Dynamo', 26 May–4 June 1940'' ed. W. J. R. Gardner, pub. Frank Cass, London, 2000 {{ISBN|0-7146-5120-6}}</ref> with Dorothy Drew (sister of architect [[Jane Drew]]). Up until then he did not know that his brother, killed in 1940 during the [[Dunkirk evacuation]], had any children.