Angela Lansbury
Known for: Acting
Born: October 16, 1925
Died: October 11, 2022
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
131 movies · 44 TV shows, newest first
NR
Commitment to Life
2023
7.0
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
NR
Show of Titles
2021
7.8
Knives Out
2019
6.5
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
6.0
Buttons
2018
NR
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
6.9
The Grinch
2018
6.4
Every Act of Life
2018
6.8
Howard
2018
7.2
Little Women
2017
NR
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
NR
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
5.4
Women He's Undressed
2015
8.0
Driving Miss Daisy
2015
7.1
Six by Sondheim
2013
6.0
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
6.0
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010NR
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009
7.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
7.4
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
7.3
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
6.0
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
NR
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
5.5
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007
10.0
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007
NR
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
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Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
2006
6.7
Nanny McPhee
2005
8.0
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
8.1
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
8.3
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
9.0
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004NR
Queen of Diamonds
2004
8.3
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
6.1
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
7.3
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
6.4
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
7.1
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
9.4
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
7.7
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
8.0
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002
6.9
The Cockettes
2002
8.5
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
6.5
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
8.0
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001
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Disney Through The Decades
2001
7.0
On Cukor
2000
7.0
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
6.8
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
7.0
Fantasia 2000
2000
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
6.6
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
8.3
Forever Hollywood
1999
6.9
Glorious Technicolor
1998
7.6
Anastasia
1997
6.2
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
7.0
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
4.3
The View
1997
6.3
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
6.2
Mrs. Santa Claus
1996NR
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
8.0
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
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Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995
6.9
Your Studio and You
1995
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A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
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Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994
7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994
6.8
The World of Hammer
1994
7.1
That's Entertainment! III
1994
9.0
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
7.5
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
4.0
Mickey's Audition
1992
9.5
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
6.8
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992
7.3
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
7.7
Beauty and the Beast
1991
10.0
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
6.8
The Love She Sought
1990
8.3
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990
6.5
The Shell Seekers
1989
5.7
Shootdown
1988
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Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
1988
5.8
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
19868.7
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
8.3
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.3
The Company of Wolves
1984
5.9
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984
7.2
Lace
1984
6.5
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
6.9
A Talent for Murder
1983
6.0
The Pirates of Penzance
1983
7.3
The Last Unicorn
1982
5.8
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
8.2
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
6.1
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
6.0
The Lady Vanishes
1979
7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
7.2
Death on the Nile
1978
5.4
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975
7.4
That's Entertainment!
1974
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Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
8.0
The Julie Andrews Hour
19725.1
Film '72
1971
7.0
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
6.1
Great Performances
1971
6.5
Something for Everyone
1970
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
7.2
Omnibus
1967
6.1
Mister Buddwing
1966
5.6
Harlow
1965
5.7
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
6.5
Dear Heart
1965
7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
5.9
The World of Henry Orient
1964
7.0
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
5.8
In the Cool of the Day
1963
7.5
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
6.0
All Fall Down
1962
6.1
Blue Hawaii
1961
6.5
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
5.5
A Breath of Scandal
1960
6.8
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
6.7
The Reluctant Debutante
1958
7.0
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
7.0
Claire
1956
NR
Tony Awards
1956
5.9
Please Murder Me
1956
7.3
The Court Jester
1955
5.6
A Lawless Street
1955
7.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
5.8
The Purple Mask
1955
5.3
A Life at Stake
19557.5
Stage 7
1955
3.8
Climax!
19547.8
The George Gobel Show
1954
7.5
Studio 57
1954
NR
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
6.0
Remains to Be Seen
1953
7.0
The Oscars
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
7.8
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
6.8
Four Star Playhouse
1952
5.2
Mutiny
1952
5.6
Today
1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.0
Kind Lady
19516.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
7.3
Your Show of Shows
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
6.6
Samson and Delilah
1949
6.7
The Red Danube
1949
7.9
The Emmy Awards
1949
6.8
The Three Musketeers
1948
6.8
State of the Union
1948
6.5
Tenth Avenue Angel
1948
6.7
If Winter Comes
1947
6.2
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
5.8
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
5.5
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
6.6
The Harvey Girls
1946
7.1
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
7.2
National Velvet
1945
7.5
Gaslight
1944
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944