Angela Lansbury
Actor
Born October 16, 1925 in 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.
Filmography
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Angela Lansbury
Show of Titles
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Knives Out
Mary Poppins Returns
Balloon Lady
Buttons
Rose
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
The Grinch
Mayor McGerkle (voice)
Every Act of Life
Self
Howard
Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
Little Women
Aunt March
Miracle on 42nd Street
Self
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Self
Women He's Undressed
Self
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan
Six by Sondheim
Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mrs. Van Gundy
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Self
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
Narrator
Heidi 4 Paws
Grandmother (voice)
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
Self
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
Self (archive footage)
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
Self (archive footage)
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
Self
Nanny McPhee
Aunt Adelaide
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
Mrs. Potts (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Eleanor Duvall
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
Mrs. Potts (voice)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Self
The Blackwater Lightship
Dora
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
Self
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
Jessica Fletcher
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Self (archive footage)
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
Self
The Cockettes
Self (archive footage)
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
Narrator
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Self
Disney Through The Decades
On Cukor
Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Jessica Fletcher
Fantasia 2000
Self - Host
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Eleanor Duvall
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Emily Pollifax
Forever Hollywood
Self
Glorious Technicolor
Narrator (voice)
Anastasia
Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Mrs. Potts (voice)
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Jessica Fletcher
The View
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
Mrs. Santa Claus
Mrs. Santa Claus
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Inside the Dream Factory
Self
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
Narrator
Your Studio and You
Angela Lansbury
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
Narrator
Touched by an Angel
Lady Penelope Berrington
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
Self
Intimate Portrait
Self
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mrs. Ada Harris
Mickey's Audition
Sylvia
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
Self - Chanteuse
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
Self - Performer
Beauty and the Beast
Mrs. Potts (voice)
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
Self - Actress
The Love She Sought
Agatha McGee
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Self - Host
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling
Shootdown
Nan Moore
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
Herself
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Marchesa Allabrandi
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
Murder, She Wrote
Jessica Fletcher
The Company of Wolves
Granny
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
Alice Garrett
Lace
Aunt Hortense Boutin
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Amanda Fenwick
A Talent for Murder
Ann Royce McClain
The Pirates of Penzance
Ruth
The Last Unicorn
Mommy Fortuna (voice)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Nellie Lovett
Magnum, P.I.
Jessica Fletcher
The Mirror Crack'd
Miss Marple
The Lady Vanishes
Miss Froy
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Death on the Nile
Salome Otterbourne
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
The Julie Andrews Hour
Self
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Miss Price
Great Performances
Self
Something for Everyone
Countess Herthe von Ornstein
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Omnibus
Mister Buddwing
Gloria
Harlow
Mama Jean Bello
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Lady Blystone
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Claudia
Dear Heart
Phyllis
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Elfie van Donck
The World of Henry Orient
Isabel Boyd
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
In the Cool of the Day
Sybil Logan
The Manchurian Candidate
Mrs. Iselin
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
All Fall Down
Annabell Willart
Blue Hawaii
Sarah Lee Gates
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Mavis Pruitt
A Breath of Scandal
Countess Lina
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Pearl
The Reluctant Debutante
Mabel Claremont
The Long, Hot Summer
Minnie Littlejohn
Claire
Vera Wayne
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Performer
Please Murder Me
Myra Leeds
The Court Jester
Princess Gwendolyn
A Lawless Street
Tally Dickenson
Screen Director's Playhouse
Vera Wayne
The Purple Mask
Madame Valentine
A Life at Stake
Doris Hillman
Climax!
Justina Marshall
Studio 57
Revlon Mirror Theatre
Remains to Be Seen
Valeska Chauvel
The Oscars
Self
General Electric Theater
Daphne Rutledge
The Ford Television Theatre
Lola Walker
Four Star Playhouse
Joan Robinson
Mutiny
Leslie Waldridge
Today
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Penelope Keeling
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Florie Vandrop
Kind Lady
Mrs. Edwards
Your Show of Shows
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Montgomery Presents
Christine Manson
Samson and Delilah
Semadar
The Red Danube
Audrey Quail
The Emmy Awards
Self
The Three Musketeers
Queen Ann
State of the Union
Kay Thorndyke
Tenth Avenue Angel
Susan Bratten
If Winter Comes
Mabel Sabre
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Clotilde de Marelle
Till the Clouds Roll By
London Specialty
The Hoodlum Saint
Dusty Millard
The Harvey Girls
Em
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sibyl Vane
National Velvet
Edwina Brown
Gaslight
Nancy
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee