Angela Lansbury
Acting
1925-10-16 · 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.
Filmography
Commitment to Life
2023 · Movie
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · Movie
Show of Titles
2021 · Movie
Knives Out
2019 · Movie
Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · Movie
Buttons
2018 · Movie
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018 · Movie
The Grinch
2018 · Movie
Every Act of Life
2018 · Movie
Howard
2018 · Movie
Little Women
2017 · Series
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017 · Movie
The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told
2017 · Movie
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017 · Movie
Women He's Undressed
2015 · Movie
Driving Miss Daisy
2015 · Movie
Six by Sondheim
2013 · Movie
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011 · Movie
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010 · Movie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · Movie
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009 · Movie
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009 · Movie
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008 · Movie
Heidi 4 Paws
2008 · Movie
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008 · Movie
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007 · Movie
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007 · Movie
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 · Movie
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Movie
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005 · Movie
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Movie
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 · Series
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004 · Movie
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004 · Movie
Queen of Diamonds
2004 · Movie
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004 · Movie
The Blackwater Lightship
2004 · Movie
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003 · Movie
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003 · Movie
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Movie
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Movie
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · Movie
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002 · Movie
The Cockettes
2002 · Movie
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001 · Movie
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001 · Movie
Disney Through The Decades
2001 · Movie
On Cukor
2000 · Movie
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000 · Movie
Fantasia 2000
2000 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999 · Movie
Forever Hollywood
1999 · Movie
Glorious Technicolor
1998 · Movie
Anastasia
1997 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997 · Movie
Mrs. Santa Claus
1996 · Movie
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996 · Movie
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
Inside the Dream Factory
1995 · Movie
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995 · Movie
Your Studio and You
1995 · Movie
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995 · Movie
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994 · Movie
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Series
The World of Hammer
1994 · Series
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994 · Movie
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992 · Movie
Mickey's Audition
1992 · Movie
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Series
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992 · Movie
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast
1991 · Movie
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991 · Movie
The Love She Sought
1990 · Movie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990 · Movie
The Shell Seekers
1989 · Movie
Shootdown
1988 · Movie
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
1988 · Movie
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986 · Series
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986 · Movie
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
The Company of Wolves
1984 · Movie
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984 · Series
Lace
1984 · Series
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983 · Movie
A Talent for Murder
1983 · Movie
The Pirates of Penzance
1983 · Movie
The Last Unicorn
1982 · Movie
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · Series
Newhart
1982 · Series
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982 · Movie
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · Series
The Mirror Crack'd
1980 · Movie
The Lady Vanishes
1979 · Movie
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Series
Death on the Nile
1978 · Movie
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975 · Movie
That's Entertainment!
1974 · Movie
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973 · Movie
The Julie Andrews Hour
1972 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Something for Everyone
1970 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Mister Buddwing
1966 · Movie
Harlow
1965 · Movie
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965 · Movie
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Movie
Dear Heart
1965 · Movie
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Series
The World of Henry Orient
1964 · Movie
The Danny Kaye Show
1963 · Series
In the Cool of the Day
1963 · Movie
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Movie
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
All Fall Down
1962 · Movie
Blue Hawaii
1961 · Movie
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · Movie
A Breath of Scandal
1960 · Movie
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959 · Movie
The Reluctant Debutante
1958 · Movie
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Movie
Claire
1956 · Movie
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Please Murder Me
1956 · Movie
The Court Jester
1955 · Movie
A Lawless Street
1955 · Movie
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · Series
The Purple Mask
1955 · Movie
A Life at Stake
1955 · Movie
Stage 7
1955 · Series
Climax!
1954 · Series
The George Gobel Show
1954 · Series
Studio 57
1954 · Series
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953 · Series
Remains to Be Seen
1953 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Series
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Series
Mutiny
1952 · Movie
Today
1952 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
Kind Lady
1951 · Movie
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Series
Your Show of Shows
1950 · Series
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Series
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Movie
The Red Danube
1949 · Movie
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Series
The Three Musketeers
1948 · Movie
State of the Union
1948 · Movie
Tenth Avenue Angel
1948 · Movie
If Winter Comes
1947 · Movie
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947 · Movie
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Movie
The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · Movie
The Harvey Girls
1946 · Movie
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Movie
National Velvet
1945 · Movie
Gaslight
1944 · Movie
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series