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

• 2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Angela Lansbury, In Memory Of
• 2021Show of Titles — "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
• 2019Knives Out — Thanks
• 2018Buttons — Rose
• 2018Harold Prince: The Director's Life
• 2018Mary Poppins Returns — Balloon Lady
• 2018The Grinch — Mayor McGerkle (voice)
• Little Women — Aunt March
• 2015Driving Miss Daisy — Daisy Werthan
• 2013Six by Sondheim — Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
• 2011Mr. Popper's Penguins — Mrs. Van Gundy
• 2008Heidi 4 Paws — Grandmother (voice)
• 2008The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics — Narrator
• 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards — Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
• 2005Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party — Mrs. Potts (voice)
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury — Eleanor Duvall
• 2005Nanny McPhee — Aunt Adelaide
• 2004Broadway's Lost Treasures II — Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
• 2004Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream — Mrs. Potts (voice)
• 2004The Blackwater Lightship — Dora
• 2003Broadway's Lost Treasures — Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
• 2003Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle — Jessica Fletcher
• 2001Disney Through The Decades
• 2001Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All — Narrator
• 2001Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man — Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
• 2000Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For — Jessica Fletcher
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Eleanor Duvall
• 1999The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax — Emily Pollifax
• 1998Glorious Technicolor — Narrator (voice)
• 1997Anastasia — Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
• 1997Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas — Mrs. Potts (voice)
• 1997Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest — Jessica Fletcher
• 1996Mrs. Santa Claus — Mrs. Santa Claus
• 1995A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
• 1995Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall — Narrator
• 1995Your Studio and You — Angela Lansbury
• 1994Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch — Narrator
• 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Touched by an Angel — Lady Penelope Berrington
• 1992Mickey's Audition — Sylvia
• 1992Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris — Mrs. Ada Harris
• Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories — Narrator (voice)
• 1991Beauty and the Beast — Mrs. Potts (voice)
• 1990The Love She Sought — Agatha McGee
• 1989The Shell Seekers — Penelope Keeling
• 1988Shootdown — Nan Moore
• 1986Rage of Angels: The Story Continues — Marchesa Allabrandi
• Rage of Angels: The Story Continues — Marchesa Allabrandi
• Lace — Aunt Hortense Boutin
• Murder, She Wrote — Jessica Fletcher, Producer
• 1984The Company of Wolves — Granny
• The First Olympics: Athens 1896 — Alice Garrett
• 1983A Talent for Murder — Ann Royce McClain
• 1983The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story — Amanda Fenwick
• 1983The Pirates of Penzance — Ruth
• Little Gloria... Happy at Last — Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
• 1982Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Nellie Lovett
• 1982The Last Unicorn — Mommy Fortuna (voice)
• Magnum, P.I. — Jessica Fletcher
• 1980The Mirror Crack'd — Miss Marple
• 1979The Lady Vanishes — Miss Froy
• 1978Death on the Nile — Salome Otterbourne
• 1975The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow — Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
• 1974That's Entertainment! — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1973Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
• 1971Bedknobs and Broomsticks — Miss Price
• 1970Something for Everyone — Countess Herthe von Ornstein
• Omnibus
• 1966Mister Buddwing — Gloria
• 1965Dear Heart — Phyllis
• 1965Harlow — Mama Jean Bello
• 1965The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders — Lady Blystone
• 1965The Greatest Story Ever Told — Claudia
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Elfie van Donck
• 1964The World of Henry Orient — Isabel Boyd
• 1963In the Cool of the Day — Sybil Logan
• 1962All Fall Down — Annabell Willart
• 1962The Manchurian Candidate — Mrs. Iselin
• 1961Blue Hawaii — Sarah Lee Gates
• 1960A Breath of Scandal — Countess Lina
• 1960The Dark at the Top of the Stairs — Mavis Pruitt
• 1959Summer of the Seventeenth Doll — Pearl
• 1958The Long, Hot Summer — Minnie Littlejohn
• 1958The Reluctant Debutante — Mabel Claremont
• 1956Claire — Vera Wayne
• 1956Please Murder Me — Myra Leeds
• 1955A Lawless Street — Tally Dickenson
• 1955A Life at Stake — Doris Hillman
• Screen Director's Playhouse — Vera Wayne
• Stage 7 — Vanessa Peters
• 1955The Court Jester — Princess Gwendolyn
• 1955The Purple Mask — Madame Valentine
• Climax! — Justina Marshall, Judith Beresford
• Studio 57
• General Electric Theater — Daphne Rutledge
• 1953Remains to Be Seen — Valeska Chauvel
• Revlon Mirror Theatre
• Four Star Playhouse — Joan Robinson, Mrs. Hallerton
• 1952Mutiny — Leslie Waldridge
• The Ford Television Theatre — Lola Walker
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Penelope Keeling, Dora
• 1951Kind Lady — Mrs. Edwards
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Florie Vandrop
• Lux Video Theatre — Leslie, Self - Intermission Guest, Lucy Landor, Tina Rafferty, Elsa
• Robert Montgomery Presents — Christine Manson, Rosie
• Your Show of Shows
• 1949Samson and Delilah — Semadar
• 1949The Red Danube — Audrey Quail
• 1948State of the Union — Kay Thorndyke
• 1948Tenth Avenue Angel — Susan Bratten
• 1948The Three Musketeers — Queen Ann
• 1947If Winter Comes — Mabel Sabre
• 1947The Private Affairs of Bel Ami — Clotilde de Marelle
• 1946The Harvey Girls — Em
• 1946The Hoodlum Saint — Dusty Millard
• 1946Till the Clouds Roll By — London Specialty
• 1945National Velvet — Edwina Brown
• 1945The Picture of Dorian Gray — Sibyl Vane
• 1944Gaslight — Nancy

Appearances as themselves (55)

• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Every Act of Life — Self
• 2018Howard — Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
• 2017Miracle on 42nd Street — Self
• 2017Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches — Self
• 2015Women He's Undressed — Self
• 2010Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast — Self
• 2009The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story — Self
• 2009To Oz! The Making of a Classic — Self / Hostess
• 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times — Self
• 2007Elvis: #1 Hit Performances — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Words and Music by Jerry Herman — Self
• 2004AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies — Self
• 2004Queen of Diamonds — Herself
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 2003Reflections on 'Gaslight' — Self
• 2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series — Self
• 2002Edith Head: The Paramount Years — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Cockettes — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury — Self
• 2001Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks — Self
• 2000Fantasia 2000 — Self - Host
• 2000On Cukor — Self
• 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Forever Hollywood — Self
• 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
• The View — Self
• 1996A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• 1995Inside the Dream Factory — Self
• 1994Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl — Self
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1992Euro Disney : L'Ouverture — Self - Chanteuse
• 1992The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland — Self - Performer
• 1991The Trouble With Agatha Christie — Self - Actress
• 1990The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic — Self - Host
• 1988Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves — Herself
• 1986The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn — Self
• The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
• The Julie Andrews Hour — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Danny Kaye Show — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• Tony Awards — 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
• The George Gobel Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• What's My Line? — Self - Mystery Guest
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter