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Angela Lansbury

Born · October 16, 1925

Died · October 11, 2022 (96 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Bio

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 - October 11, 2022) was a British-American actress and singer who has appeared in theater, television, and film roles. Her career was spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received international attention. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Anastasia (1997). She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her 12 year run as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996. Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music. Respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, an Honorary Academy Award, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and eighteen Emmy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angela Lansbury, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Angela Lansbury

7.1

2022

Mary Poppins Returns

Balloon Lady

6.5

2018

Buttons

Rose

6.9

2018

Harold Prince: The Director's Life

0.0

2018

The Grinch

Mayor McGerkle (voice)

6.9

2018

Every Act of Life

Self

7.0

2018

Howard

Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)

6.9

2018

Little Women

Aunt March · (3 episodes)

7.1

2017

Miracle on 42nd Street

self

0.0

2017

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

Self

0.0

2017

Women He's Undressed

Self

5.4

2015

Driving Miss Daisy

Daisy Werthan

8.1

2015

Six by Sondheim

Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)

7.1

2013

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Mrs. Van Gundy

6.0

2011

Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast

Self

0.0

2010

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin (archive footage)

7.1

2010

To Oz! The Making of a Classic

Self / Hostess

0.0

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Self (archive footage)

7.2

2009

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

Self

7.2

2009

Heidi 4 Paws

Grandmother (voice)

6.0

2008

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

Self

0.0

2008

Elvis: #1 Hit Performances

Self (archive footage)

5.5

2007

Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll

Self (archive footage)

10.0

2007

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

Herself

0.0

2007

Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury

Self

0.0

2006

Nanny McPhee

Aunt Adelaide

6.7

2005

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party

Mrs. Potts (voice)

8.0

2005

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)

7.2

2005

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Eleanor Duvall · (1 episode)

8.0

2005

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")

8.0

2004

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream

Mrs. Potts (voice)

9.0

2004

Queen of Diamonds

Herself

0.0

2004

The Blackwater Lightship

Dora

6.3

2004

Reflections on 'Gaslight'

Self

6.5

2003

Broadway's Lost Treasures

Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")

5.6

2003

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

Jessica Fletcher

7.0

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Self

7.0

2003

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Self

9.4

2003

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

(archive footage)

7.5

2002

The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury

Self

10.0

2002

The Cockettes

Self (archive footage)

6.7

2002

Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All

Narrator

8.7

2001

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough

6.1

2001

Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Self

0.0

2001

1996

A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury

Self

0.0

1996

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

3.5

1996

Inside the Dream Factory

Self

6.0

1995

Your Studio and You

Angela Lansbury

6.8

1995

Touched by an Angel

Lady Penelope Berrington · (1 episode)

7.2

1994

That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage)

6.9

1994

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

Self

9.0

1994

Intimate Portrait

Self · (1 episode)

4.5

1993

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Mrs. Ada Harris

7.8

1992

Mickey's Audition

Sylvia

4.0

1992

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Narrator (Voice) · (1 episode)

10.0

1992

Euro Disney : L'Ouverture

Self - Chanteuse

6.0

1992

Beauty and the Beast

Mrs. Potts (voice)

7.7

1991

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

Self - Actress

10.0

1991

The Love She Sought

Agatha McGee

6.2

1990

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

Self / Host

8.3

1990

The Shell Seekers

Penelope Keeling

7.0

1989

Shootdown

Nan Moore

5.2

1988

Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves

Herself

0.0

1988

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

Marchesa Allabrandi

10.0

1986

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

Marchesa Allabrandi · (2 episodes)

8.7

1986

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Self

8.0

1986

Murder, She Wrote

Jessica Fletcher · (264 episodes)

7.5

1984

The Company of Wolves

Granny

6.3

1984

Lace

Aunt Hortense Boutin · (2 episodes)

6.9

1984

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Amanda Fenwick

5.6

1983

A Talent for Murder

Ann Royce McClain

5.6

1983

The Pirates of Penzance

Ruth

5.7

1983

The Last Unicorn

Mommy Fortuna (voice)

7.1

1982

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney · (2 episodes)

6.8

1982

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Nellie Lovett

7.9

1982

Magnum, P.I.

(1 episode)

7.3

1980

The Mirror Crack'd

Miss Marple

6.1

1980

The Lady Vanishes

Miss Froy

6.0

1979

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self · (1 episode)

7.3

1978

Hercule Poirot

(1 episode)

0.0

1978

Death on the Nile

Salome Otterbourne

7.2

1978

Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette

Salome Otterbourne (archive footage)

6.3

1978

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)

5.3

1975

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) (uncredited)

7.2

1974

Sondheim: A Musical Tribute

0.0

1973

The Julie Andrews Hour

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1972

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Miss Price

7.0

1971

Great Performances

Self · (1 episode)

5.2

1971

Something For Everyone

Countess Herthe von Ornstein

6.7

1970

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

6.7

1968

Mister Buddwing

Gloria

5.9

1966

Harlow

Mama Jean Bello

5.4

1965

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Lady Blystone

5.8

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Claudia

6.4

1965

Dear Heart

Phyllis

6.6

1965

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Elfie van Donck · (1 episode)

7.1

1964

The World of Henry Orient

Isabel Boyd

5.8

1964

The Danny Kaye Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.3

1963

In the Cool of the Day

Sybil Logan

5.4

1963

The Manchurian Candidate

Mrs. Iselin

7.5

1962

The Merv Griffin Show

Self · (1 episode)

5.6

1962

All Fall Down

Annabell Willart

6.1

1962

Blue Hawaii

Sarah Lee Gates

5.9

1961

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Mavis Pruitt

6.7

1960

A Breath of Scandal

Countess Lina

5.1

1960

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Pearl

6.3

1959

The Reluctant Debutante

Mabel Claremont

6.7

1958

The Long, Hot Summer

Minnie Littlejohn

7.1

1958

Claire

Vera Wayne

Doris Hillman

5.2

1955

Stage 7

Vanessa Peters · (2 episodes)

7.0

1955

Climax!

Justina Marshall · (1 episode)

3.0

1954

Climax!

7.0

1952

Four Star Playhouse

Joan Robinson · (1 episode)

6.1

1952

Four Star Playhouse

Mrs. Hallerton · (1 episode)

6.1

1952

Mutiny

Leslie Waldridge

4.8

1952

Today

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Penelope Keeling · (1 episode)

8.7

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dora · (1 episode)

8.7

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Florie Vandrop · (1 episode)

Elsa · (1 episode)

6.0

1950

Your Show of Shows

(1 episode)

5.5

1950

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)

6.7

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

Christine Manson · (1 episode)

5.2

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

Rosie · (1 episode)

5.2

1950

Samson and Delilah

Semadar

6.5

1949

The Red Danube

Audrey Quail

6.3

1949

The Emmy Awards

Self · (1 episode)

7.5

1949

The Three Musketeers

Queen Ann

6.8

1948

State of the Union

Kay Thorndyke

6.7

1948

Tenth Avenue Angel

Susan Bratten

6.1

1948

If Winter Comes

Mabel Sabre

6.6

1947

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Clotilde de Marelle

6.3

1947

Till the Clouds Roll By

London Specialty

5.6

1946

The Hoodlum Saint

Dusty Millard

5.2

1946

The Harvey Girls

6.4

1946

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sibyl Vane

7.1

1945

National Velvet

Edwina Brown

7.2

1945

Gaslight

Nancy Oliver

7.5

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee · (5 episodes)

6.8

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Winner · (4 episodes)

6.8

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Presenter · (2 episodes)

6.8

1944