Angela Lansbury
Known for Acting · 174 credits
- Born
- 1925-10-16
- Died
- 2022-10-11
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Angela Brigid Lansbury · آنجلا لنسبوری
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.
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Eleanor Duvall
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Jessica Fletcher
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter
The View
1997
as Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Christine Manson / Rosie
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Performer / Self - Presenter / Self - Host/Presenter / Self - Winner / Presenter / Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner / Self - Performer / Self - Host / Presenter / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Presenter / Winner
TV Shows (44)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Eleanor Duvall
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Jessica Fletcher
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter
The View
1997
as Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Christine Manson / Rosie
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Performer / Self - Presenter / Self - Host/Presenter / Self - Winner / Presenter / Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner / Self - Performer / Self - Host / Presenter / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Presenter / Winner
Great Performances
1971
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Jessica Fletcher
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Climax!
1954
as Justina Marshall / Judith Beresford
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Lady Penelope Berrington
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Joan Robinson / Mrs. Hallerton
Today
1952
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Elfie van Donck
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Leslie / Self - Intermission Guest / Lucy Landor / Tina Rafferty / Elsa
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Lola Walker
Studio 57
1954
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
as Eleanor Duvall
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Vera Wayne
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
The Julie Andrews Hour
1972
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Penelope Keeling / Dora
Lace
1984
as Aunt Hortense Boutin
Little Women
2017
as Aunt March
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Florie Vandrop
General Electric Theater
1953
as Daphne Rutledge
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984
as Alice Garrett
Stage 7
1955
as Vanessa Peters
Movies (130)
Beauty and the Beast
1991
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
as Angela Lansbury
The Grinch
2018
as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
Death on the Nile
1978
as Salome Otterbourne
Anastasia
1997
as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Balloon Lady
Nanny McPhee
2005
as Aunt Adelaide
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
as Mrs. Van Gundy
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Fantasia 2000
2000
as Self - Host
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
as Miss Price
Gaslight
1944
as Nancy
The Last Unicorn
1982
as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
as Mrs. Iselin
Glorious Technicolor
1998
as Narrator (voice)
Samson and Delilah
1949
as Semadar
The Company of Wolves
1984
as Granny
Kind Lady
1951
as Mrs. Edwards
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Claudia
Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
as Jessica Fletcher
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
as Miss Marple
The Three Musketeers
1948
as Queen Ann
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
as London Specialty
That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
as Minnie Littlejohn
Buttons
2018
as Rose
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Sibyl Vane
Six by Sondheim
2013
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
The Lady Vanishes
1979
as Miss Froy
Blue Hawaii
1961
as Sarah Lee Gates
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Shootdown
1988
as Nan Moore
Show of Titles
2021
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
The Court Jester
1955
as Princess Gwendolyn
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
as Self
The Cockettes
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
as Self
Dear Heart
1965
as Phyllis
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
as Jessica Fletcher
The Harvey Girls
1946
as Em
Please Murder Me
1956
as Myra Leeds
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
as Mrs. Ada Harris
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Mister Buddwing
1966
as Gloria
Women He's Undressed
2015
as Self
The Reluctant Debutante
1958
as Mabel Claremont
Mrs. Santa Claus
1996
as Mrs. Santa Claus
Claire
1956
as Vera Wayne
National Velvet
1945
as Edwina Brown
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
as Grandmother (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
A Lawless Street
1955
as Tally Dickenson
The Love She Sought
1990
as Agatha McGee
Howard
2018
as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
as Jessica Fletcher
In the Cool of the Day
1963
as Sybil Logan
All Fall Down
1962
as Annabell Willart
A Breath of Scandal
1960
as Countess Lina
Remains to Be Seen
1953
as Valeska Chauvel
Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The Purple Mask
1955
as Madame Valentine
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Self (archive footage)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990
as Self - Host
A Life at Stake
1955
as Doris Hillman
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
The World of Henry Orient
1964
as Isabel Boyd
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Your Studio and You
1995
as Angela Lansbury
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
as Self
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Clotilde de Marelle
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as Lady Blystone
The Pirates of Penzance
1983
as Ruth
State of the Union
1948
as Kay Thorndyke
Something for Everyone
1970
as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
The Red Danube
1949
as Audrey Quail
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
as Mavis Pruitt
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992
as Self - Chanteuse
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
as Dusty Millard
The Shell Seekers
1989
as Penelope Keeling
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self
Disney Through The Decades
2001
If Winter Comes
1947
as Mabel Sabre
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
as Emily Pollifax
Mutiny
1952
as Leslie Waldridge
Tenth Avenue Angel
1948
as Susan Bratten
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
as Narrator
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
2006
as Self
Driving Miss Daisy
2015
as Daisy Werthan
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
as Pearl
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
as Self - Performer
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
as Self
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi
Mickey's Audition
1992
as Sylvia
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975
as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
as Amanda Fenwick
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
as Dora
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
as Self
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
Harlow
1965
as Mama Jean Bello
On Cukor
2000
as Self
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
as Narrator
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
as Self
A Talent for Murder
1983
as Ann Royce McClain
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
as Nellie Lovett
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
as Self
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
as Self - Actress
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001
as Self
Queen of Diamonds
2004
as Herself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
as Self
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995
as Narrator
About Angela Lansbury
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 An… With 174 credits spanning from 1944 to 2023, Angela Lansbury has appeared in 130 films and 44 TV shows.
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- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) — as Angela Lansbury
- The Grinch (2018) — as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
- Death on the Nile (1978) — as Salome Otterbourne
- Anastasia (1997) — as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
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