
Angela Lansbury
Born October 16, 1925 · London, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Beauty and the Beast

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The Grinch

Nanny McPhee

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Mary Poppins Returns

Anastasia

Death on the Nile

Fantasia 2000

The Last Unicorn

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Three Musketeers

Samson and Delilah

The Manchurian Candidate

Gaslight

The Company of Wolves

The Mirror Crack'd

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

The Long, Hot Summer

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Court Jester

Blue Hawaii

That's Entertainment!

Every Act of Life

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

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

State of the Union

Till the Clouds Roll By
TV Shows

What's My Line?

Golden Globe Awards

The Merv Griffin Show

Touched by an Angel

The Dick Cavett Show

Magnum, P.I.

Tony Awards

Climax!

Robert Montgomery Presents

Intimate Portrait

Four Star Playhouse

Omnibus

The Oscars

Today

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

The Ford Television Theatre

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Studio 57

The Danny Kaye Show

Your Show of Shows

The Kennedy Center Honors

Screen Director's Playhouse

The World of Hammer

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Julie Andrews Hour

Lace

The Emmy Awards

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Little Women

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

Revlon Mirror Theatre

General Electric Theater

The First Olympics: Athens 1896

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
More Movies

Frank Capra's American Dream

National Velvet

That's Entertainment! III

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

A Lawless Street

The Lady Vanishes

Forever Hollywood

Howard

The Cockettes

The Pirates of Penzance

Please Murder Me

Miracle on 42nd Street

Your Studio and You

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

The World of Henry Orient

Six by Sondheim

Kind Lady

The Love She Sought

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Women He's Undressed

Buttons

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Remains to Be Seen

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Shootdown

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Glorious Technicolor

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Show of Titles

The Purple Mask

A Breath of Scandal

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

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

The Harvey Girls

Commitment to Life

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

Harold Prince: The Director's Life

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

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

A Life at Stake

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

Mutiny

If Winter Comes

The Red Danube

Harlow

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

All Fall Down

In the Cool of the Day

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

On Cukor

Euro Disney : L'Ouverture

Elvis: #1 Hit Performances

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Inside the Dream Factory

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

Mister Buddwing

The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland

Broadway's Lost Treasures

Dear Heart

A Talent for Murder

Mrs. Santa Claus

Disney Through The Decades

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

The Reluctant Debutante

The Blackwater Lightship

Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury

Tenth Avenue Angel

Sondheim: A Musical Tribute

The Hoodlum Saint

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

Something for Everyone

Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Claire

The Shell Seekers

Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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

Driving Miss Daisy

Heidi 4 Paws

Mickey's Audition

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch




