Angela Lansbury
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-10-16
- Died:
- 2022-10-11
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
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
Filmography
Commitment to Life
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Show of Titles
Mary Poppins Returns
Buttons
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
The Grinch
Every Act of Life
Howard
Little Women
Miracle on 42nd Street
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Women He's Undressed
Driving Miss Daisy
Six by Sondheim
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
Waking Sleeping Beauty
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
Heidi 4 Paws
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Nanny McPhee
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
Queen of Diamonds
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
The Blackwater Lightship
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
The Cockettes
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Disney Through The Decades
On Cukor
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Fantasia 2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Forever Hollywood
Glorious Technicolor
Anastasia
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
The View
Frank Capra's American Dream
Mrs. Santa Claus
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Inside the Dream Factory
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
Your Studio and You
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
Touched by an Angel
The World of Hammer
That's Entertainment! III
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
Intimate Portrait
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mickey's Audition
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
Beauty and the Beast
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
The Love She Sought
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
The Shell Seekers
Shootdown
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Murder, She Wrote
The Company of Wolves
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
Lace
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
A Talent for Murder
The Pirates of Penzance
The Last Unicorn
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Magnum, P.I.
The Mirror Crack'd
The Lady Vanishes
The Kennedy Center Honors
Death on the Nile
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
That's Entertainment!
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
The Julie Andrews Hour
Film '72
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Great Performances
Something for Everyone
The Dick Cavett Show
Omnibus
Mister Buddwing
Harlow
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Dear Heart
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The World of Henry Orient
The Danny Kaye Show
In the Cool of the Day
The Manchurian Candidate
The Merv Griffin Show
All Fall Down
Blue Hawaii
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
A Breath of Scandal
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
The Reluctant Debutante
The Long, Hot Summer
Claire
Tony Awards
Please Murder Me
The Court Jester
A Lawless Street
Screen Director's Playhouse
The Purple Mask
A Life at Stake
Stage 7
Climax!
The George Gobel Show
Studio 57
Revlon Mirror Theatre
Remains to Be Seen
The Oscars
General Electric Theater
The Ford Television Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
Mutiny
Today
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Kind Lady
Lux Video Theatre
Your Show of Shows
What's My Line?
Robert Montgomery Presents
Samson and Delilah
The Red Danube
The Emmy Awards
The Three Musketeers
State of the Union
Tenth Avenue Angel
If Winter Comes
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Till the Clouds Roll By
The Hoodlum Saint
The Harvey Girls
The Picture of Dorian Gray
National Velvet
Gaslight
Golden Globe Awards