Angela Lansbury
Known for Acting · 173 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
TV Shows (43)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Eleanor Duvall
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Jessica Fletcher
The View
1997
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter
Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Jessica Fletcher
Great Performances
1971
as Self
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
Climax!
1954
as Justina Marshall / Judith Beresford
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Christine Manson / Rosie
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Lady Penelope Berrington
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Joan Robinson / Mrs. Hallerton
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Omnibus
1967
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Lola Walker
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Elfie van Donck
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
as Eleanor Duvall
Studio 57
1954
Today
1952
as Self
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Leslie / Self - Intermission Guest / Lucy Landor / Tina Rafferty / Elsa
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Vera Wayne
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Julie Andrews Hour
1972
as Self
Lace
1984
as Aunt Hortense Boutin
The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
Little Women
2017
as Aunt March
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Penelope Keeling / Dora
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
General Electric Theater
1953
as Daphne Rutledge
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Florie Vandrop
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984
as Alice Garrett
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi
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)
Anastasia
1997
as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
Nanny McPhee
2005
as Aunt Adelaide
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Balloon Lady
Fantasia 2000
2000
as Self - Host
The Company of Wolves
1984
as Granny
Death on the Nile
1978
as Salome Otterbourne
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Gaslight
1944
as Nancy
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
as Mrs. Van Gundy
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
as Mrs. Iselin
Samson and Delilah
1949
as Semadar
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Claudia
The Last Unicorn
1982
as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
as Miss Price
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Sibyl Vane
Buttons
2018
as Rose
Blue Hawaii
1961
as Sarah Lee Gates
That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
as Miss Marple
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
as Minnie Littlejohn
The Three Musketeers
1948
as Queen Ann
Kind Lady
1951
as Mrs. Edwards
National Velvet
1945
as Edwina Brown
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Howard
2018
as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
as London Specialty
Six by Sondheim
2013
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
as Self
State of the Union
1948
as Kay Thorndyke
That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
The Court Jester
1955
as Princess Gwendolyn
Show of Titles
2021
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
The Harvey Girls
1946
as Em
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
as Jessica Fletcher
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
as Self
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
as Dusty Millard
Harlow
1965
as Mama Jean Bello
The Lady Vanishes
1979
as Miss Froy
The Cockettes
2002
as Self (archive footage)
A Lawless Street
1955
as Tally Dickenson
Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
Mutiny
1952
as Leslie Waldridge
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
The Shell Seekers
1989
as Penelope Keeling
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as Lady Blystone
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
as Jessica Fletcher
The Reluctant Debutante
1958
as Mabel Claremont
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The World of Henry Orient
1964
as Isabel Boyd
Your Studio and You
1995
as Angela Lansbury
The Pirates of Penzance
1983
as Ruth
A Breath of Scandal
1960
as Countess Lina
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
as Mrs. Ada Harris
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
Shootdown
1988
as Nan Moore
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Mrs. Santa Claus
1996
as Mrs. Santa Claus
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
as Grandmother (voice)
The Purple Mask
1955
as Madame Valentine
The Red Danube
1949
as Audrey Quail
Tenth Avenue Angel
1948
as Susan Bratten
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
as Self
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
as Nellie Lovett
Something for Everyone
1970
as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
Claire
1956
as Vera Wayne
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975
as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
as Jessica Fletcher
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996
as Self
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
as Self
Dear Heart
1965
as Phyllis
If Winter Comes
1947
as Mabel Sabre
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
as Self
All Fall Down
1962
as Annabell Willart
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
as Self
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
as Dora
Please Murder Me
1956
as Myra Leeds
In the Cool of the Day
1963
as Sybil Logan
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
as Pearl
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
as Emily Pollifax
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
as Amanda Fenwick
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Clotilde de Marelle
Mister Buddwing
1966
as Gloria
Disney Through The Decades
2001
The Love She Sought
1990
as Agatha McGee
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
as Mavis Pruitt
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994
as Self
Remains to Be Seen
1953
as Valeska Chauvel
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Women He's Undressed
2015
as Self
A Life at Stake
1955
as Doris Hillman
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
1990
as Self / Host
On Cukor
2000
as Self
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992
as Self - Chanteuse
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
as Self
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002
as Self
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995
as Narrator
Driving Miss Daisy
2015
as Daisy Werthan
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009
as Self / Hostess
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
as Narrator
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Self
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994
as Narrator
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
as Self - Performer
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
as Self - Actress
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
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 173 credits spanning from 1944 to 2023, Angela Lansbury has appeared in 130 films and 43 TV shows.
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- 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)
- Anastasia (1997) — as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
- Nanny McPhee (2005) — as Aunt Adelaide
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