Angela Lansbury
Acting
Born October 16, 1925 · 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.
Films (128)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
Show of Titles
2021
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
Buttons
2018
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
The Grinch
2018
Every Act of Life
2018
Howard
2018
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
Women He's Undressed
2015
Driving Miss Daisy
2015
Six by Sondheim
2013
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
2006
Nanny McPhee
2005
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004
Queen of Diamonds
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002
The Cockettes
2002
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001
Disney Through The Decades
2001
On Cukor
2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
Fantasia 2000
2000
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
Forever Hollywood
1999
Glorious Technicolor
1998
Anastasia
1997
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Mrs. Santa Claus
1996
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995
Your Studio and You
1995
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
Mickey's Audition
1992
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
Beauty and the Beast
1991
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
The Love She Sought
1990
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
1990
The Shell Seekers
1989
Shootdown
1988
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
1988
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
The Company of Wolves
1984
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
A Talent for Murder
1983
The Pirates of Penzance
1983
The Last Unicorn
1982
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
The Lady Vanishes
1979
Death on the Nile
1978
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975
That's Entertainment!
1974
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
Something for Everyone
1970
Mister Buddwing
1966
Harlow
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Dear Heart
1965
The World of Henry Orient
1964
In the Cool of the Day
1963
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
All Fall Down
1962
Blue Hawaii
1961
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
A Breath of Scandal
1960
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
The Reluctant Debutante
1958
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
Claire
1956
Please Murder Me
1956
The Court Jester
1955
A Lawless Street
1955
The Purple Mask
1955
A Life at Stake
1955
Remains to Be Seen
1953
Mutiny
1952
Kind Lady
1951
Samson and Delilah
1949
The Red Danube
1949
The Three Musketeers
1948
State of the Union
1948
Tenth Avenue Angel
1948
If Winter Comes
1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
The Harvey Girls
1946
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
National Velvet
1945
Gaslight
1944