Angela Lansbury

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

10/16/1925

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

Angela Brigid Lansburyآنجلا لنسبوری

Angela Lansbury

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 Broomsticks (1971) Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Anastasia (1997). She expanded her repertoire to Bro...

Known For

Career Timeline

2022

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

as Angela Lansbury

2021

Show of Titles

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

2018

Mary Poppins Returns

as Balloon Lady

Buttons

as Rose

Harold Prince: The Director's Life

Role unknown

The Grinch

as Mayor McGerkle (voice)

Every Act of Life

as Self

Howard

as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)

2017

Little Women

as Aunt March

Miracle on 42nd Street

as self

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

as Self

2015

Women He's Undressed

as Self

Driving Miss Daisy

as Daisy Werthan

2013

Six by Sondheim

as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)

2011

Mr. Popper's Penguins

as Mrs. Van Gundy

2010

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

as Self

2009

To Oz! The Making of a Classic

as Self / Hostess

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

as Self

2008

Heidi 4 Paws

as Grandmother (voice)

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

as Self

2007

Elvis: #1 Hit Performances

as Self (archive footage)

Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll

as Self (archive footage)

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

as Self

2006

Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury

as Self

2005

Nanny McPhee

as Aunt Adelaide

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

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

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

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

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

as Eleanor Duvall

2004

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")

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

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

Queen of Diamonds

as Herself

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

as Self

The Blackwater Lightship

as Dora

2003

Reflections on 'Gaslight'

as Self

Broadway's Lost Treasures

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

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

as Jessica Fletcher

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

as Self

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

as Self

2002

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

as (archive footage)

The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury

as Self

The Cockettes

as Self (archive footage)

2001

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

as Narrator

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough

Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

as Self

Disney Through The Decades

Role unknown

2000

On Cukor

as Self

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

as Jessica Fletcher

Fantasia 2000

as Self - Host

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Eleanor Duvall

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

as Emily Pollifax

Forever Hollywood

as Self

1998

Glorious Technicolor

as Narrator (voice)

1997

Anastasia

as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

as Jessica Fletcher

The View

as Self

Frank Capra's American Dream

as Self

1996

Mrs. Santa Claus

as Mrs. Santa Claus

A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury

as Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

1995

Inside the Dream Factory

as Self

Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall

as Narrator

Your Studio and You

as Angela Lansbury

A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim

Role unknown

1994

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch

as Narrator

Touched by an Angel

as Lady Penelope Berrington

The World of Hammer

as Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

as Self

1993

Intimate Portrait

as Self

1992

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

as Mrs. Ada Harris

Mickey's Audition

as Sylvia

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

as Narrator (voice)

Euro Disney : L'Ouverture

as Self - Chanteuse

The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland

as Self - Performer

1991

Beauty and the Beast

as Mrs. Potts (voice)

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

as Self - Actress

1990

The Love She Sought

as Agatha McGee

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

as Self / Host

1989

The Shell Seekers

as Penelope Keeling

1988

Shootdown

as Nan Moore

Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves

as Herself

1986

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

as Marchesa Allabrandi

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

as Marchesa Allabrandi

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

as Self

1984

Murder, She Wrote

as Jessica Fletcher

The Company of Wolves

as Granny

The First Olympics: Athens 1896

as Alice Garrett

Lace

as Aunt Hortense Boutin

1983

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

as Amanda Fenwick

A Talent for Murder

as Ann Royce McClain

The Pirates of Penzance

as Ruth

1982

The Last Unicorn

as Mommy Fortuna (voice)

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

as Nellie Lovett

1980

Magnum, P.I.

as Jessica Fletcher

The Mirror Crack'd

as Miss Marple

1979

The Lady Vanishes

as Miss Froy

1978

The Kennedy Center Honors

as Self

Death on the Nile

as Salome Otterbourne

1975

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)

1974

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

Sondheim: A Musical Tribute

Role unknown

1972

The Julie Andrews Hour

as Self

1971

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

as Miss Price

Great Performances

as Self

1970

Something for Everyone

as Countess Herthe von Ornstein

1968

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1966

Mister Buddwing

as Gloria

1965

Harlow

as Mama Jean Bello

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

as Lady Blystone

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Claudia

Dear Heart

as Phyllis

1964

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

as Elfie van Donck

The World of Henry Orient

as Isabel Boyd

1963

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

In the Cool of the Day

as Sybil Logan

1962

The Manchurian Candidate

as Mrs. Iselin

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

All Fall Down

as Annabell Willart

1961

Blue Hawaii

as Sarah Lee Gates

1960

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

as Mavis Pruitt

A Breath of Scandal

as Countess Lina

1959

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

as Pearl

1958

The Reluctant Debutante

as Mabel Claremont

The Long, Hot Summer

as Minnie Littlejohn

1956

Claire

as Vera Wayne

Tony Awards

as Self - Performer

Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner

Tony Awards

as Self - Host/Performer

Tony Awards

as Self - Host/Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Performer

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner/Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee/Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Host /Performer

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter/Winner

Please Murder Me

as Myra Leeds

1955

The Court Jester

as Princess Gwendolyn

A Lawless Street

as Tally Dickenson

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Vera Wayne

The Purple Mask

as Madame Valentine

A Life at Stake

as Doris Hillman

Stage 7

as Vanessa Peters

1954

Climax!

as Justina Marshall

Climax!

as Judith Beresford

The George Gobel Show

as Self

Studio 57

Role unknown

1953

Revlon Mirror Theatre

Role unknown

Remains to Be Seen

as Valeska Chauvel

The Oscars

as Self

General Electric Theater

as Daphne Rutledge

1952

The Ford Television Theatre

as Lola Walker

Four Star Playhouse

as Joan Robinson

Four Star Playhouse

as Mrs. Hallerton

Mutiny

as Leslie Waldridge

Today

as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Penelope Keeling

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dora

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Florie Vandrop

Kind Lady

as Mrs. Edwards

1950

Lux Video Theatre

as Leslie

Lux Video Theatre

as Self - Intermission Guest

Lux Video Theatre

as Lucy Landor

Lux Video Theatre

as Tina Rafferty

Lux Video Theatre

as Elsa

Your Show of Shows

Role unknown

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Christine Manson

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Rosie

1949

Samson and Delilah

as Semadar

The Red Danube

as Audrey Quail

The Emmy Awards

as Self

1948

The Three Musketeers

as Queen Ann

State of the Union

as Kay Thorndyke

Tenth Avenue Angel

as Susan Bratten

1947

If Winter Comes

as Mabel Sabre

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Clotilde de Marelle

1946

Till the Clouds Roll By

as London Specialty

The Hoodlum Saint

as Dusty Millard

The Harvey Girls

as Em

1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Sibyl Vane

National Velvet

as Edwina Brown

1944

Gaslight

as Nancy

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter