Angela Lansbury

ActorCrewProducer Oct 16 (died age 96) London, England, UK 1944–2022 (78 year career)

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Biography

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 Broom…

Known For

Film

Knives Out

Thanks

Film

Beauty and the Beast

Mrs. Potts (voice)

Film

Anastasia

Dowager Empress Marie (voice)

Film

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Angela Lansbury

Film

The Grinch

Mayor McGerkle (voice)

Film

Nanny McPhee

Aunt Adelaide

Film

Mary Poppins Returns

Balloon Lady

Film

Fantasia 2000

Self - Host

Filmography

Acting (173)

Movies (128)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

2022

as Angela Lansbury

7.0

Show of Titles

2021

as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer

The Grinch

2018

as Mayor McGerkle (voice)

Mary Poppins Returns

as Balloon Lady

Howard

as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)

Buttons

as Rose

Every Act of Life

as Self

Harold Prince: The Director's Life

2018

Miracle on 42nd Street

2017

as Self

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

2017

as Self

Women He's Undressed

as Self

Driving Miss Daisy

as Daisy Werthan

Six by Sondheim

as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)

7.1

Mr. Popper's Penguins

2011

as Mrs. Van Gundy

6.0

Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast

2010

as Self

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.2

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

2009

as Self

7.3

To Oz! The Making of a Classic

2009

as Self / Hostess

Heidi 4 Paws

2008

as Grandmother (voice)

6.0

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

2008

as Self

Elvis: #1 Hit Performances

2007

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll

2007

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007

as Self

Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury

2006

as Self

Nanny McPhee

2005

as Aunt Adelaide

6.7

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)

7.2

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party

2005

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

8.0

The Blackwater Lightship

2004

as Dora

5.9

Queen of Diamonds

2004

as Herself

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

2004

as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")

8.0

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

2004

as Self

8.0

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream

2004

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

9.0

Reflections on 'Gaslight'

2003

as Self

6.5

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

2003

as Jessica Fletcher

7.0

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0

Broadway's Lost Treasures

2003

as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")

6.1

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

2003

as Self

9.4

The Cockettes

2002

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

2002

as (archive footage)

7.5

The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury

2002

as Self

10.0

Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

2001

as Self

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

2001

as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough

6.3

Disney Through The Decades

2001

Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All

as Narrator

Fantasia 2000

as Self - Host

On Cukor

as Self

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

2000

as Jessica Fletcher

6.7

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Forever Hollywood

1999

as Self

8.0

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

as Emily Pollifax

Glorious Technicolor

as Narrator (voice)

Anastasia

as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)

7.6

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

1997

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

6.2

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997

as Self

6.3

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

as Jessica Fletcher

Mrs. Santa Claus

as Mrs. Santa Claus

A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury

1996

as Self

Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall

1995

as Narrator

Inside the Dream Factory

as Self

Your Studio and You

as Angela Lansbury

A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim

1995

That's Entertainment! III

1994

as (archive footage)

7.0

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

1994

as Self

9.0

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch

1994

as Narrator

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

1992

as Mrs. Ada Harris

7.2

The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland

as Self - Performer

Mickey's Audition

as Sylvia

Euro Disney : L'Ouverture

1992

as Self - Chanteuse

6.8

Beauty and the Beast

1991

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

7.7

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

as Self - Actress

The Love She Sought

as Agatha McGee

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic

as Self / Host

The Shell Seekers

as Penelope Keeling

Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves

1988

as Herself

Shootdown

1988

as Nan Moore

5.4

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

1986

as Marchesa Allabrandi

4.8

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986

as Self

8.0

The Company of Wolves

1984

as Granny

6.3

The Pirates of Penzance

as Ruth

A Talent for Murder

as Ann Royce McClain

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

1983

as Amanda Fenwick

6.4

The Last Unicorn

1982

as Mommy Fortuna (voice)

7.2

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

as Nellie Lovett

The Mirror Crack'd

as Miss Marple

The Lady Vanishes

as Miss Froy

Death on the Nile

as Salome Otterbourne

7.1

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

1975

as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)

5.3

That's Entertainment!

1974

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.4

Sondheim: A Musical Tribute

1973

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

as Miss Price

7.0

Something for Everyone

1970

as Countess Herthe von Ornstein

6.4

Mister Buddwing

1966

as Gloria

5.9

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Claudia

Harlow

as Mama Jean Bello

Dear Heart

as Phyllis

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965

as Lady Blystone

5.4

The World of Henry Orient

1964

as Isabel Boyd

5.8

In the Cool of the Day

1963

as Sybil Logan

5.4

The Manchurian Candidate

as Mrs. Iselin

All Fall Down

as Annabell Willart

Blue Hawaii

as Sarah Lee Gates

A Breath of Scandal

as Countess Lina

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960

as Mavis Pruitt

6.4

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

as Pearl

The Long, Hot Summer

as Minnie Littlejohn

The Reluctant Debutante

as Mabel Claremont

Please Murder Me

as Myra Leeds

Claire

as Vera Wayne

The Court Jester

1955

as Princess Gwendolyn

A Life at Stake

as Doris Hillman

A Lawless Street

as Tally Dickenson

The Purple Mask

as Madame Valentine

Remains to Be Seen

as Valeska Chauvel

Mutiny

as Leslie Waldridge

Kind Lady

as Mrs. Edwards

Samson and Delilah

as Semadar

The Red Danube

as Audrey Quail

The Three Musketeers

as Queen Ann

State of the Union

as Kay Thorndyke

Tenth Avenue Angel

as Susan Bratten

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947

as Clotilde de Marelle

If Winter Comes

as Mabel Sabre

The Harvey Girls

as Em

Till the Clouds Roll By

as London Specialty

The Hoodlum Saint

as Dusty Millard

The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Sibyl Vane

National Velvet

as Edwina Brown

Gaslight

as Nancy

Television (45)

Little Women

2017

as Aunt March

7.1

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005

as Eleanor Duvall

8.1

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Eleanor Duvall

The View

as Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996

as Self - Guest

3.9

Touched by an Angel

1994

as Lady Penelope Berrington

7.2

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Intimate Portrait

1993

as Self

4.5

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

1992

as Narrator (voice)

10.0

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

1986

as Marchesa Allabrandi

Murder, She Wrote

as Jessica Fletcher

Lace

as Aunt Hortense Boutin

7.1

The First Olympics: Athens 1896

1984

as Alice Garrett

5.3

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

1982

as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

5.4

Magnum, P.I.

1980

as Jessica Fletcher

7.3

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

as Self

7.4

The Julie Andrews Hour

as Self

Great Performances

as Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Elfie van Donck

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host / Performer

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Performer

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Vera Wayne

Stage 7

as Vanessa Peters

Climax!

as Justina Marshall

Studio 57

The George Gobel Show

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

General Electric Theater

1953

as Daphne Rutledge

6.4

Revlon Mirror Theatre

1953

Four Star Playhouse

1952

as Joan Robinson

6.7

The Ford Television Theatre

as Lola Walker

Today

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Penelope Keeling

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Florie Vandrop

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

as Christine Manson

5.6

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

Your Show of Shows

Lux Video Theatre

as Leslie

The Emmy Awards

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (3)

Movies (2)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

In Memory Of

Knives Out

Thanks

Television (1)

Murder, She Wrote

1984

Producer

7.5