- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 16, 1925
- Place of Birth
- London, England, UK
- Died
- October 11, 2022
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 s…
Filmography
movieCommitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · Angela Lansbury, In Memory Of
movieShow of Titles
2021 · "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
movieKnives Out
2019 · Thanks
movieMary Poppins Returns
2018 · Balloon Lady
movieButtons
2018 · Rose
movieHarold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
movieThe Grinch
2018 · Mayor McGerkle (voice)
movieEvery Act of Life
2018 · Self
movieHoward
2018 · Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
tvLittle Women
2017 · Aunt March
movieMiracle on 42nd Street
2017 · Self
movieRod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017 · Self
movieWomen He's Undressed
2015 · Self
movieDriving Miss Daisy
2015 · Daisy Werthan
movieSix by Sondheim
2013 · Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
movieMr. Popper's Penguins
2011 · Mrs. Van Gundy
movieBeyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010 · Self
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009 · Self / Hostess
movieWaking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009 · Self
movieThe Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008 · Narrator
movieHeidi 4 Paws
2008 · Grandmother (voice)
movieRiots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008 · Self
movieElvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieElvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieWords and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 · Self
moviePrivate Screenings: Angela Lansbury
2006 · Self
movieNanny McPhee
2005 · Aunt Adelaide
movieDisney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005 · Mrs. Potts (voice)
movieBroadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
tvLaw & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 · Eleanor Duvall
movieBroadway's Lost Treasures II
2004 · Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
movieDisney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004 · Mrs. Potts (voice)
Queen of Diamonds
2004 · Herself
movieAFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004 · Self
movieThe Blackwater Lightship
2004 · Dora
movieReflections on 'Gaslight'
2003 · Self
movieBroadway's Lost Treasures
2003 · Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
movieMurder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003 · Jessica Fletcher
movieBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self
movieThe Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Self
movieEdith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002 · Self
movieThe Cockettes
2002 · Self (archive footage)
movieDisney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001 · Narrator
movieMurder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001 · Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
movieMusic Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001 · Self
movieDisney Through The Decades
2001
movieOn Cukor
2000 · Self
movieSir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000 · Self (archive footage)
movieMurder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000 · Jessica Fletcher
movieFantasia 2000
2000 · Self - Host
tvLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Eleanor Duvall
movieThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999 · Emily Pollifax
movieForever Hollywood
1999 · Self
movieGlorious Technicolor
1998 · Narrator (voice)
movieAnastasia
1997 · Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
movieBeauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997 · Mrs. Potts (voice)
movieMurder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997 · Jessica Fletcher
tvThe View
1997 · Self
movieFrank Capra's American Dream
1997 · Self
movieMrs. Santa Claus
1996 · Mrs. Santa Claus
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996 · Self
tvThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
movieInside the Dream Factory
1995 · Self
movieAnyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995 · Narrator
movieYour Studio and You
1995 · Angela Lansbury
movieA Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
movieShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994 · Narrator
tvTouched by an Angel
1994 · Lady Penelope Berrington
tvThe World of Hammer
1994 · Self (archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage)
movieJerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994 · Self
tvIntimate Portrait
1993 · Self
movieMrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992 · Mrs. Ada Harris
movieMickey's Audition
1992 · Sylvia
tvShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Narrator (voice)
movieEuro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992 · Self - Chanteuse
movieThe Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992 · Self - Performer
movieBeauty and the Beast
1991 · Mrs. Potts (voice)
movieThe Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991 · Self - Actress
movieThe Love She Sought
1990 · Agatha McGee
movieThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990 · Self - Host
movieThe Shell Seekers
1989 · Penelope Keeling
movieShootdown
1988 · Nan Moore
movieAngela Lansbury's Positive Moves
1988 · Herself
movieRage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986 · Marchesa Allabrandi
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986 · Marchesa Allabrandi
movieThe Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Self
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Jessica Fletcher, Producer
movieThe Company of Wolves
1984 · Granny
tvThe First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984 · Alice Garrett
tvLace
1984 · Aunt Hortense Boutin
movieThe Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983 · Amanda Fenwick
movieA Talent for Murder
1983 · Ann Royce McClain
movieThe Pirates of Penzance
1983 · Ruth
movieThe Last Unicorn
1982 · Mommy Fortuna (voice)
tvLittle Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
movieSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982 · Nellie Lovett
tvMagnum, P.I.
1980 · Jessica Fletcher
movieThe Mirror Crack'd
1980 · Miss Marple
movieThe Lady Vanishes
1979 · Miss Froy
tvThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
movieDeath on the Nile
1978 · Salome Otterbourne
movieThe First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975 · Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
movieThat's Entertainment!
1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieSondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
tvThe Julie Andrews Hour
1972 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
movieBedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 · Miss Price
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Self
movieSomething for Everyone
1970 · Countess Herthe von Ornstein
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
tvOmnibus
1967
movieMister Buddwing
1966 · Gloria
movieHarlow
1965 · Mama Jean Bello
movieThe Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965 · Lady Blystone
movieThe Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Claudia
movieDear Heart
1965 · Phyllis
tvThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Elfie van Donck
movieThe World of Henry Orient
1964 · Isabel Boyd
tvThe Danny Kaye Show
1963 · Self
movieIn the Cool of the Day
1963 · Sybil Logan
movieThe Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Mrs. Iselin
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
movieAll Fall Down
1962 · Annabell Willart
movieBlue Hawaii
1961 · Sarah Lee Gates
movieThe Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · Mavis Pruitt
movieA Breath of Scandal
1960 · Countess Lina
movieSummer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959 · Pearl
movieThe Reluctant Debutante
1958 · Mabel Claremont
movieThe Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Minnie Littlejohn
movieClaire
1956 · Vera Wayne
tvTony Awards
1956 · Self - Host / Performer, Self - Presenter, Self - Host/Presenter, Self - Winner / Presenter, Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner, Self - Performer, Self - Host / Presenter, Self - Nominee / Presenter, Self - Presenter / Winner
moviePlease Murder Me
1956 · Myra Leeds
movieThe Court Jester
1955 · Princess Gwendolyn
movieA Lawless Street
1955 · Tally Dickenson
tvScreen Director's Playhouse
1955 · Vera Wayne
movieThe Purple Mask
1955 · Madame Valentine
movieA Life at Stake
1955 · Doris Hillman
Stage 7
1955 · Vanessa Peters
tvClimax!
1954 · Justina Marshall, Judith Beresford
The George Gobel Show
1954 · Self
tvStudio 57
1954
tvRevlon Mirror Theatre
1953
movieRemains to Be Seen
1953 · Valeska Chauvel
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Daphne Rutledge
tvThe Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Lola Walker
tvFour Star Playhouse
1952 · Joan Robinson, Mrs. Hallerton
movieMutiny
1952 · Leslie Waldridge
tvToday
1952 · Self
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Penelope Keeling, Dora
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Florie Vandrop
movieKind Lady
1951 · Mrs. Edwards
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Leslie, Self - Intermission Guest, Lucy Landor, Tina Rafferty, Elsa
tvYour Show of Shows
1950
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Christine Manson, Rosie
movieSamson and Delilah
1949 · Semadar
movieThe Red Danube
1949 · Audrey Quail
tvThe Emmy Awards
1949 · Self
movieThe Three Musketeers
1948 · Queen Ann
movieState of the Union
1948 · Kay Thorndyke
movieTenth Avenue Angel
1948 · Susan Bratten
movieIf Winter Comes
1947 · Mabel Sabre
movieThe Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947 · Clotilde de Marelle
movieTill the Clouds Roll By
1946 · London Specialty
movieThe Hoodlum Saint
1946 · Dusty Millard
movieThe Harvey Girls
1946 · Em
movieThe Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Sibyl Vane
movieNational Velvet
1945 · Edwina Brown
movieGaslight
1944 · Nancy
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter