Angela Lansbury
Born: 1925-10-16 in London, England, UK
Died: 2022-10-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2023
- Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Angela Lansbury
2021
- Show of Titles as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2019
- Knives Out ... (Thanks)
2018
- The Grinch as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
- Mary Poppins Returns as Balloon Lady
- Buttons as Rose
- Howard as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
- Every Act of Life as Self
- Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2017
- Little Women as Aunt March
- Miracle on 42nd Street as Self
- Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Self
2015
- Women He's Undressed as Self
- Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan
2013
- Six by Sondheim as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
2011
- Mr. Popper's Penguins as Mrs. Van Gundy
2009
- Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story as Self
- To Oz! The Making of a Classic as Self / Hostess
2008
- The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics as Narrator
- Heidi 4 Paws as Grandmother (voice)
- Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times as Self
2007
- Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll as Self (archive footage)
- Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Self
- Elvis: #1 Hit Performances as Self (archive footage)
2006
2005
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Eleanor Duvall
- Nanny McPhee as Aunt Adelaide
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
- Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2004
- Broadway's Lost Treasures II as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies as Self
- The Blackwater Lightship as Dora
- Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- Queen of Diamonds as Herself
2003
- Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle as Jessica Fletcher
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- Broadway's Lost Treasures as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
- Reflections on 'Gaslight' as Self
- The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
2002
- The Cockettes as Self (archive footage)
- Edith Head: The Paramount Years as Self (archive footage)
- The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury as Self
2001
- Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
- Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All as Narrator
- Disney Through The Decades
- Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Self
2000
- Fantasia 2000 as Self - Host
- Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For as Jessica Fletcher
- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- On Cukor as Self
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Eleanor Duvall
- Forever Hollywood as Self
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax as Emily Pollifax
1998
- Glorious Technicolor as Narrator (voice)
1997
- The View as Self
- Anastasia as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
- Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Jessica Fletcher
- Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
1996
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- Mrs. Santa Claus as Mrs. Santa Claus
- A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury as Self
1995
- Your Studio and You as Angela Lansbury
- Inside the Dream Factory as Self
- A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
- Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall as Narrator
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Lady Penelope Berrington
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl as Self
- Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch as Narrator
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
1992
- Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
- Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris as Mrs. Ada Harris
- Euro Disney : L'Ouverture as Self - Chanteuse
- The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland as Self - Performer
- Mickey's Audition as Sylvia
1991
- Beauty and the Beast as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Actress
1990
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic as Self / Host
- The Love She Sought as Agatha McGee
1989
- The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
1988
- Shootdown as Nan Moore
- Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves as Herself
1986
- Rage of Angels: The Story Continues as Marchesa Allabrandi
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self
- Rage of Angels: The Story Continues as Marchesa Allabrandi
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher
- Lace as Aunt Hortense Boutin
- The Company of Wolves as Granny
- The First Olympics: Athens 1896 as Alice Garrett
1983
- The Pirates of Penzance as Ruth
- A Talent for Murder as Ann Royce McClain
- The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as Amanda Fenwick
1982
- The Last Unicorn as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Nellie Lovett
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Jessica Fletcher
- The Mirror Crack'd as Miss Marple
1979
- The Lady Vanishes as Miss Froy
1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- Death on the Nile as Salome Otterbourne
1975
- The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1972
- The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Miss Price
1970
- Something for Everyone as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1967
1966
- Mister Buddwing as Gloria
1965
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Claudia
- Harlow as Mama Jean Bello
- The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as Lady Blystone
- Dear Heart as Phyllis
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Elfie van Donck
- The World of Henry Orient as Isabel Boyd
1963
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- In the Cool of the Day as Sybil Logan
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Manchurian Candidate as Mrs. Iselin
- All Fall Down as Annabell Willart
1961
- Blue Hawaii as Sarah Lee Gates
1960
- A Breath of Scandal as Countess Lina
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Mavis Pruitt
1959
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Pearl
1958
- The Long, Hot Summer as Minnie Littlejohn
- The Reluctant Debutante as Mabel Claremont
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host / Performer
- Please Murder Me as Myra Leeds
- Claire as Vera Wayne
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Vera Wayne
- The Court Jester as Princess Gwendolyn
- The Purple Mask as Madame Valentine
- A Lawless Street as Tally Dickenson
- A Life at Stake as Doris Hillman
- Stage 7 as Vanessa Peters
1954
- Climax! as Justina Marshall
- Studio 57
- The George Gobel Show as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- General Electric Theater as Daphne Rutledge
- Remains to Be Seen as Valeska Chauvel
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Joan Robinson
- The Ford Television Theatre as Lola Walker
- Today as Self
- Mutiny as Leslie Waldridge
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Penelope Keeling
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Florie Vandrop
- Kind Lady as Mrs. Edwards
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Christine Manson
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Lux Video Theatre as Leslie
- Your Show of Shows
1949
- Samson and Delilah as Semadar
- The Emmy Awards as Self
- The Red Danube as Audrey Quail
1948
- The Three Musketeers as Queen Ann
- State of the Union as Kay Thorndyke
- Tenth Avenue Angel as Susan Bratten
1947
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Clotilde de Marelle
- If Winter Comes as Mabel Sabre
1946
- The Harvey Girls as Em
- Till the Clouds Roll By as London Specialty
- The Hoodlum Saint as Dusty Millard
1945
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sibyl Vane
- National Velvet as Edwina Brown
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Gaslight as Nancy