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 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.
173 acting credits
Acting · 173
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Great Performances
1971
Touched by an Angel
1994
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Tony Awards
1956
Climax!
1954
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Four Star Playhouse
1952
What's My Line?
1950
Omnibus
1967
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Oscars
1953
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Beauty and the Beast
1991
Studio 57
1954
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Your Show of Shows
1950
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The Grinch
2018
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
Today
1952
The World of Hammer
1994
Anastasia
1997
The Company of Wolves
1984
Nanny McPhee
2005
Lace
1984
The Julie Andrews Hour
1972
The George Gobel Show
1954
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
Little Women
2017
The Emmy Awards
1949
Death on the Nile
1978
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
Samson and Delilah
1949
Fantasia 2000
2000
General Electric Theater
1953
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Gaslight
1944
Buttons
2018
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Last Unicorn
1982
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Howard
2018
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
The Court Jester
1955
The Three Musketeers
1948
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
Harlow
1965
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Six by Sondheim
2013
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005
Blue Hawaii
1961
A Lawless Street
1955
National Velvet
1945
Every Act of Life
2018
The Harvey Girls
1946
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
That's Entertainment!
1974
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
The Lady Vanishes
1979
Your Studio and You
1995
State of the Union
1948
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
The Love She Sought
1990
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
Commitment to Life
2023
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
The World of Henry Orient
1964
Mutiny
1952
Show of Titles
2021
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Mrs. Santa Claus
1996
Shootdown
1988
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
A Life at Stake
1955
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004
All Fall Down
1962
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
Tenth Avenue Angel
1948
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994
A Breath of Scandal
1960
Something for Everyone
1970
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
Forever Hollywood
1999
The Reluctant Debutante
1958
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
The Pirates of Penzance
1983
Mister Buddwing
1966
Please Murder Me
1956
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
On Cukor
2000
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
The Shell Seekers
1989
Kind Lady
1951
The Cockettes
2002
The Purple Mask
1955
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
The Red Danube
1949
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
Dear Heart
1965
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
1990
If Winter Comes
1947
Women He's Undressed
2015
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
In the Cool of the Day
1963
A Talent for Murder
1983
Stage 7
1955
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
Disney Through The Decades
2001
Mickey's Audition
1992
Remains to Be Seen
1953
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
Claire
1956
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
Driving Miss Daisy
2015
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009
Glorious Technicolor
1998
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
2006
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
1988
Queen of Diamonds
2004