Actor
· Acting
Angela Lansbury
Born 1925-10-16
Died 2022-10-11
📍 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 176
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Angela Lansbury
2022
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
Mary Poppins Returns
as Balloon Lady
2018
Buttons
as Rose
2018
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
The Grinch
as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
2018
Every Act of Life
as Self
2018
Howard
as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
2018
Little Women
as Aunt March
2017
Miracle on 42nd Street
as Self
2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
as Self
2017
Women He's Undressed
as Self
2015
Driving Miss Daisy
as Daisy Werthan
2015
Six by Sondheim
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
2013
Mr. Popper's Penguins
as Mrs. Van Gundy
2011
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
as Self
2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
as Self
2009
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
as Narrator
2008
Heidi 4 Paws
as Grandmother (voice)
2008
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
as Self
2008
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
2007
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
as Self
2006
Nanny McPhee
as Aunt Adelaide
2005
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Eleanor Duvall
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
2004
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
2004
The Blackwater Lightship
as Dora
2004
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
as Self
2003
Broadway's Lost Treasures
as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
2003
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
as Jessica Fletcher
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
2003
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
as Self
2002
The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
as Narrator
2001
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
2001
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Self
2001
Disney Through The Decades
2001
On Cukor
as Self
2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Jessica Fletcher
2000
Fantasia 2000
as Self - Host
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Eleanor Duvall
1999
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
as Emily Pollifax
1999
Forever Hollywood
as Self
1999
Glorious Technicolor
as Narrator (voice)
1998
Anastasia
as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
1997
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Jessica Fletcher
1997
The View
as Self
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
1997
Mrs. Santa Claus
as Mrs. Santa Claus
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
Inside the Dream Factory
as Self
1995
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
as Narrator
1995
Your Studio and You
as Angela Lansbury
1995
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
as Narrator
1994
Touched by an Angel
as Lady Penelope Berrington
1994
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
as Self
1994
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mrs. Ada Harris
1992
Mickey's Audition
as Sylvia
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)
1992
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
as Self - Chanteuse
1992
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
as Self - Performer
1992
Beauty and the Beast
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
1991
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
as Self - Actress
1991
The Love She Sought
as Agatha McGee
1990
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
as Self / Host
1990
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
1989
Shootdown
as Nan Moore
1988
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
as Herself
1988
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
as Marchesa Allabrandi
1986
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
1986
Murder, She Wrote
as Jessica Fletcher
1984
The Company of Wolves
as Granny
1984
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
as Alice Garrett
1984
Lace
as Aunt Hortense Boutin
1984
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
as Amanda Fenwick
1983
A Talent for Murder
as Ann Royce McClain
1983
The Pirates of Penzance
as Ruth
1983
The Last Unicorn
as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
1982
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1982
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Nellie Lovett
1982
Magnum, P.I.
as Jessica Fletcher
1980
The Mirror Crack'd
as Miss Marple
1980
The Lady Vanishes
as Miss Froy
1979
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
Death on the Nile
as Salome Otterbourne
1978
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
1975
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
The Julie Andrews Hour
as Self
1972
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Miss Price
1971
Great Performances
as Self
1971
Something for Everyone
as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Mister Buddwing
as Gloria
1966
Harlow
as Mama Jean Bello
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as Lady Blystone
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Claudia
1965
Dear Heart
as Phyllis
1965
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Elfie van Donck
1964
The World of Henry Orient
as Isabel Boyd
1964
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
In the Cool of the Day
as Sybil Logan
1963
The Manchurian Candidate
as Mrs. Iselin
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
All Fall Down
as Annabell Willart
1962
Blue Hawaii
as Sarah Lee Gates
1961
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
as Mavis Pruitt
1960
A Breath of Scandal
as Countess Lina
1960
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
as Pearl
1959
The Reluctant Debutante
as Mabel Claremont
1958
The Long, Hot Summer
as Minnie Littlejohn
1958
Claire
as Vera Wayne
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Performer
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Host/Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner / Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter / Winner
1956
Please Murder Me
as Myra Leeds
1956
The Court Jester
as Princess Gwendolyn
1955
A Lawless Street
as Tally Dickenson
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Vera Wayne
1955
The Purple Mask
as Madame Valentine
1955
A Life at Stake
as Doris Hillman
1955
Climax!
as Justina Marshall
1954
Climax!
as Judith Beresford
1954
Studio 57
1954
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
Remains to Be Seen
as Valeska Chauvel
1953
The Oscars
as Self
1953
General Electric Theater
as Daphne Rutledge
1953
The Ford Television Theatre
as Lola Walker
1952
Mutiny
as Leslie Waldridge
1952
Today
as Self
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Penelope Keeling
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dora
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Florie Vandrop
1951
Kind Lady
as Mrs. Edwards
1951
Your Show of Shows
1950
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Christine Manson
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Rosie
1950
Samson and Delilah
as Semadar
1949
The Red Danube
as Audrey Quail
1949
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
The Three Musketeers
as Queen Ann
1948
State of the Union
as Kay Thorndyke
1948
Tenth Avenue Angel
as Susan Bratten
1948
If Winter Comes
as Mabel Sabre
1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Clotilde de Marelle
1947
Till the Clouds Roll By
as London Specialty
1946
The Hoodlum Saint
as Dusty Millard
1946
The Harvey Girls
as Em
1946
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Sibyl Vane
1945
National Velvet
as Edwina Brown
1945
Gaslight
as Nancy
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944