Angela Lansbury
Acting • Born 1925-10-16 – Died 2022-10-11
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.
Filmography
178 credits
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Iselin
The Last Unicorn
Movie • 1982
Mommy Fortuna (voice)
The Cockettes
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1991
Mrs. Potts (voice)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie • 1965
Claudia
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Death on the Nile
Movie • 1978
Salome Otterbourne
The Lady Vanishes
Movie • 1979
Miss Froy
Nanny McPhee
Movie • 2005
Aunt Adelaide
The Mirror Crack'd
Movie • 1980
Miss Marple
Harlow
Movie • 1965
Mama Jean Bello
The Court Jester
Movie • 1955
Princess Gwendolyn
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Movie • 2004
Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
The Company of Wolves
Movie • 1984
Granny
Anastasia
Movie • 1997
Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie • 1971
Miss Price
State of the Union
Movie • 1948
Kay Thorndyke
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Potts (voice)
Gaslight
Movie • 1944
Nancy
The Long, Hot Summer
Movie • 1958
Minnie Littlejohn
The Harvey Girls
Movie • 1946
Em
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1948
Queen Ann
The Red Danube
Movie • 1949
Audrey Quail
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1949
Semadar
A Lawless Street
Movie • 1955
Tally Dickenson
The Pirates of Penzance
Movie • 1983
Ruth
The Reluctant Debutante
Movie • 1958
Mabel Claremont
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie • 1945
Sibyl Vane
Please Murder Me
Movie • 1956
Myra Leeds
National Velvet
Movie • 1945
Edwina Brown
Till the Clouds Roll By
Movie • 1946
London Specialty
Blue Hawaii
Movie • 1961
Sarah Lee Gates
The World of Henry Orient
Movie • 1964
Isabel Boyd
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
Movie • 1975
Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
A Breath of Scandal
Movie • 1960
Countess Lina
A Life at Stake
Movie • 1955
Doris Hillman
The Blackwater Lightship
Movie • 2004
Dora
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie • 2005
Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie • 1946
Dusty Millard
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
Movie • 1992
Self - Chanteuse
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Movie • 2011
Mrs. Van Gundy
All Fall Down
Movie • 1962
Annabell Willart
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Movie • 1992
Mrs. Ada Harris
On Cukor
Movie • 2000
Self
Dear Heart
Movie • 1965
Phyllis
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Movie • 1965
Lady Blystone
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Movie • 1959
Pearl
The Love She Sought
Movie • 1990
Agatha McGee
Something for Everyone
Movie • 1970
Countess Herthe von Ornstein
Queen of Diamonds
Movie • 2004
Herself
Mrs. Santa Claus
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Santa Claus
The Purple Mask
Movie • 1955
Madame Valentine
Tenth Avenue Angel
Movie • 1948
Susan Bratten
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Movie • 1983
Amanda Fenwick
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Movie • 1960
Mavis Pruitt
The Shell Seekers
Movie • 1989
Penelope Keeling
If Winter Comes
Movie • 1947
Mabel Sabre
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Movie • 1947
Clotilde de Marelle
In the Cool of the Day
Movie • 1963
Sybil Logan
Glorious Technicolor
Movie • 1998
Narrator (voice)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Movie • 1999
Emily Pollifax
Kind Lady
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Edwards
Mister Buddwing
Movie • 1966
Gloria
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
Movie • 1973
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
Movie • 2003
Jessica Fletcher
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Movie • 2000
Jessica Fletcher
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Movie • 2001
Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
Mutiny
Movie • 1952
Leslie Waldridge
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Movie • 1997
Jessica Fletcher
Shootdown
Movie • 1988
Nan Moore
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Movie • 1986
Marchesa Allabrandi
Remains to Be Seen
Movie • 1953
Valeska Chauvel
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Movie • 2003
Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
Your Studio and You
Movie • 1995
Angela Lansbury
Driving Miss Daisy
Movie • 2015
Daisy Werthan
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Movie • 2002
(archive footage)
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
Movie • 2002
Self
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie • 2022
Angela Lansbury
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
Movie • 2005
Mrs. Potts (voice)
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
Movie • 1990
Self / Host
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Women He's Undressed
Movie • 2015
Self
A Talent for Murder
Movie • 1983
Ann Royce McClain
Six by Sondheim
Movie • 2013
Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
Movie • 2008
Self
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Movie • 2003
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
Movie • 1991
Self - Actress
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie • 2018
Balloon Lady
Fantasia 2000
Movie • 2000
Self - Host
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
Movie • 1988
Herself
Mickey's Audition
Movie • 1992
Sylvia
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Movie • 2007
Self
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Movie • 2017
Self
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Movie • 1986
Self
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
Movie • 1996
Self
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
Movie • 1994
Self
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Grinch
Movie • 2018
Mayor McGerkle (voice)
Every Act of Life
Movie • 2018
Self
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
Movie • 2018
Buttons
Movie • 2018
Rose
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
Movie • 2003
Self
Forever Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Self
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
Movie • 2009
Self / Hostess
Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie • 1997
Self
Heidi 4 Paws
Movie • 2008
Grandmother (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie • 1982
Nellie Lovett
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 2010
Self
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie • 2001
Self
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Movie • 2009
Self
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Inside the Dream Factory
Movie • 1995
Self
Howard
Movie • 2018
Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
Movie • 2006
Self
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Potts (voice)
Miracle on 42nd Street
Movie • 2017
Self
Claire
Movie • 1956
Vera Wayne
Disney Through The Decades
Movie • 2001
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Movie • 2004
Self
Show of Titles
Movie • 2021
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
Movie • 1995
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
Movie • 1992
Self - Performer
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Jessica Fletcher
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Jessica Fletcher
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Lady Penelope Berrington
Today
TV • 1952
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Eleanor Duvall
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Daphne Rutledge
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Penelope Keeling
Lace
TV • 1984
Aunt Hortense Boutin
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Leslie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Florie Vandrop
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Climax!
TV • 1954
Justina Marshall
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Christine Manson
Stage 7
TV • 1955
Vanessa Peters
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Vera Wayne
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Self - Intermission Guest
The George Gobel Show
TV • 1954
Self
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Lucy Landor
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Tina Rafferty
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Elsa
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Joan Robinson
Little Women
TV • 2017
Aunt March
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Mrs. Hallerton
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Rosie
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
TV • 1982
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Lola Walker
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
TV • 1986
Marchesa Allabrandi
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dora
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV • 2005
Eleanor Duvall
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
The Julie Andrews Hour
TV • 1972
Self
Climax!
TV • 1954
Judith Beresford
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV • 1992
Narrator (voice)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Elfie van Donck
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
TV • 1984
Alice Garrett
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV • 1953
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)