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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angela Lansbury, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2022 · Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Angela Lansbury
- 2018 · Mary Poppins Returns as Balloon Lady
- 2018 · Buttons as Rose
- 2018 · Harold Prince: The Director's Life as
- 2018 · The Grinch as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
- 2018 · Every Act of Life as Self
- 2018 · Howard as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
- 2017 · Little Women as Aunt March
- 2017 · Miracle on 42nd Street as self
- 2017 · Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Self
- 2015 · Women He's Undressed as Self
- 2015 · Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan
- 2013 · Six by Sondheim as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
- 2011 · Mr. Popper's Penguins as Mrs. Van Gundy
- 2010 · Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast as Self
- 2010 · Casino Jack and the United States of Money as Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin (archive footage)
- 2009 · To Oz! The Making of a Classic as Self / Hostess
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story as Self
- 2008 · Heidi 4 Paws as Grandmother (voice)
- 2008 · Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times as Self
- 2007 · Elvis: #1 Hit Performances as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Elvis: #1 Hit Performances & More as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Herself
- 2006 · Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury as Self
- 2005 · Nanny McPhee as Aunt Adelaide
- 2005 · Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- 2005 · Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
- 2005 · Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Eleanor Duvall
- 2004 · Broadway's Lost Treasures II as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
- 2004 · Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- 2004 · Queen of Diamonds as Herself
- 2004 · The Blackwater Lightship as Dora
- 2003 · Reflections on 'Gaslight' as Self
- 2003 · Broadway's Lost Treasures as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
- 2003 · Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle as Jessica Fletcher
- 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2003 · The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
- 2002 · Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)
- 2002 · The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury as Self
- 2002 · The Cockettes as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 · Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All as Narrator
- 2001 · Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
- 2001 · Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Self
- 2001 · Disney Through The Decades as
- 2000 · On Cukor as Self
- 2000 · Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 · Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For as Jessica Fletcher
- 2000 · Fantasia 2000 as Self - Host
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Eleanor Duvall
- 1999 · The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax as Emily Pollifax
- 1999 · Forever Hollywood as Self
- 1998 · Glorious Technicolor as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Anastasia as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
- 1997 · Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- 1997 · Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Jessica Fletcher
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1996 · Mrs. Santa Claus as Mrs. Santa Claus
- 1996 · A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury as Self
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1995 · Inside the Dream Factory as Self
- 1995 · Your Studio and You as Angela Lansbury
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Lady Penelope Berrington
- 1994 · That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- 1994 · Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl as Self
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1992 · Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris as Mrs. Ada Harris
- 1992 · Mickey's Audition as Sylvia
- 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)
- 1992 · Euro Disney : L'Ouverture as Self - Chanteuse
- 1991 · Beauty and the Beast as Mrs. Potts (voice)
- 1991 · The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Actress
- 1990 · The Love She Sought as Agatha McGee
- 1990 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic as Self / Host
- 1989 · The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
- 1988 · Shootdown as Nan Moore
- 1988 · Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves as Herself
- 1986 · Rage of Angels: The Story Continues as Marchesa Allabrandi
- 1986 · Rage of Angels: The Story Continues as Marchesa Allabrandi
- 1986 · The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher
- 1984 · The Company of Wolves as Granny
- 1984 · Lace as Aunt Hortense Boutin
- 1983 · The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as Amanda Fenwick
- 1983 · A Talent for Murder as Ann Royce McClain
- 1983 · The Pirates of Penzance as Ruth
- 1982 · The Last Unicorn as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
- 1982 · Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- 1982 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Nellie Lovett
- 1980 · Magnum, P.I. as
- 1980 · The Mirror Crack'd as Miss Marple
- 1979 · The Lady Vanishes as Miss Froy
- 1978 · The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- 1978 · Death on the Nile as Salome Otterbourne
- 1978 · Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette as Salome Otterbourne (archive footage)
- 1975 · The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
- 1974 · That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1973 · Sondheim: A Musical Tribute as
- 1972 · The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
- 1971 · Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Miss Price
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Something For Everyone as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1966 · Mister Buddwing as Gloria
- 1965 · Harlow as Mama Jean Bello
- 1965 · The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as Lady Blystone
- 1965 · The Greatest Story Ever Told as Claudia
- 1965 · Dear Heart as Phyllis
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Elfie van Donck
- 1964 · The World of Henry Orient as Isabel Boyd
- 1963 · The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- 1963 · In the Cool of the Day as Sybil Logan
- 1962 · The Manchurian Candidate as Mrs. Iselin
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1962 · All Fall Down as Annabell Willart
- 1961 · Blue Hawaii as Sarah Lee Gates
- 1960 · The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Mavis Pruitt
- 1960 · A Breath of Scandal as Countess Lina
- 1959 · Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Pearl
- 1958 · The Reluctant Debutante as Mabel Claremont
- 1958 · The Long, Hot Summer as Minnie Littlejohn
- 1956 · Claire as Vera Wayne
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host & Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host/Performer
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host/Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host / Performer
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner/Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host /Performer
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee/Presenter
- 1956 · Please Murder Me as Myra Leeds
- 1955 · The Court Jester as Princess Gwendolyn
- 1955 · A Lawless Street as Tally Dickenson
- 1955 · Screen Director's Playhouse as Vera Wayne
- 1955 · The Purple Mask as Madame Valentine
- 1955 · A Life at Stake as Doris Hillman
- 1955 · Stage 7 as Vanessa Peters
- 1954 · Climax! as Justina Marshall
- 1954 · Climax! as Judith Beresford
- 1954 · The George Gobel Show as Self
- 1954 · Studio 57 as
- 1953 · Remains to Be Seen as Valeska Chauvel
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Daphne Rutledge
- 1952 · The Ford Television Theatre as Lola Walker
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Joan Robinson
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Mrs. Hallerton
- 1952 · Mutiny as Leslie Waldridge
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Penelope Keeling
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dora
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Florie Vandrop
- 1951 · Kind Lady as Mrs. Edwards
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Leslie
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Self - Intermission Guest
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Lucy Landor
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Tina Rafferty
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Elsa
- 1950 · Your Show of Shows as
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Christine Manson
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Rosie
- 1949 · Samson and Delilah as Semadar
- 1949 · The Red Danube as Audrey Quail
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- 1948 · The Three Musketeers as Queen Ann
- 1948 · State of the Union as Kay Thorndyke
- 1948 · Tenth Avenue Angel as Susan Bratten
- 1947 · If Winter Comes as Mabel Sabre
- 1947 · The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Clotilde de Marelle
- 1946 · Till the Clouds Roll By as London Specialty
- 1946 · The Hoodlum Saint as Dusty Millard
- 1946 · The Harvey Girls as Em
- 1945 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sibyl Vane
- 1945 · National Velvet as Edwina Brown
- 1944 · Gaslight as Nancy Oliver
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter