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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE is a British-Irish-American actress and singer who has played many film, theatre and television roles. Her career has spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received much international attention and she is recognised as the earliest surviving Academy Award nominee and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

Aliases
  • Angela Brigid Lansbury
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Filmography

A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury

1996
as Angela Lansbury

A Breath of Scandal

1960
as la comtesse Lina

A Lawless Street

1955
as Tally Dickenson

A Life at Stake

1955
as Doris Hillman

A Talent for Murder

1984
as Ann Royce McClain

All Fall Down

1962
as Annabell Willart

Anastasia

1997
as The Dowager Empress Marie (voice)

Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves

1988
as Angela Lansbury

Beauty and the Beast

1991
as Mrs. Potts (voice)

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

1997
as Mrs. Potts

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971
as Miss Price

Blue Hawaii

1961
as Sarah Lee Gates

Broadway's Lost Treasures

2003
as Angela Lansbury

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

2004
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")

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

2005
as Rose (segment "Gypsy")

Broadway: The Golden Age

2003
as Herself

Buttons

2018
as Rose

Dear Heart

1964
as Phyllis

Death on the Nile

1978
as Mrs. Salome Otterbourne

Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette

1978
as Salome Otterbourne

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

2004
as Mrs. Potts

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

2001
as Narrator

Elvis: #1 Hit Performances

2007
as Angela Lansbury

Every Act of Life

2018
as Herself

Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

2009
as Angela Lansbury

Fantasia 2000

1999
as Herself - Host

Forever Hollywood

1999
as Herself

Gaslight

1944
as Nancy Oliver

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

2022
as Self

Glorious Technicolor

1998
as Narrator (voice)

Harlow

1965
as Jean Bello

Harold Prince: The Director's Life

2018

Heidi 4 Paws

2008
as Grandmamma

If Winter Comes

1947
as Mabel Sabre

In the Cool of the Day

1963
as Sybil Logan

Kind Lady

1951
as Mrs. Edwards

Lace

1984
as Aunt Hortense Boutin

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

1982
as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Little Women (2017)

2017
as Aunt March

Mary Poppins Returns

2018
as Balloon Lady

Mickey's Audition

1992
as Angela Lansbury

Miracle on 42nd Street

2017
as Angela Lansbury

Mister Buddwing

1966
as Gloria

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Presents The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury

2002
as Angela Lansbury

Mr. Popper's Penguins

2011
as Mrs. Van Gundy

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

1992
as Mrs. Ada Harris

Mrs. Santa Claus

1996
as Mrs. Santa Claus

Murder, She Wrote

1984
as Jessica Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

2000
as Jessica Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

1997
as Jessica Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

2003
as Jessica Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

2001
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough

Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

2001
as Angela Lansbury

Mutiny

1952
as Leslie Waldridge

Nanny McPhee

2005
as Aunt Adelaide

National Velvet

1944
as Edwina Brown

Please Murder Me

1956
as Myra Leeds

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi

Reflections on 'Gaslight'

2003
as Angela Lansbury

Remains to Be Seen

1953
as Valeska Chauvel

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

2017
as Self

Samson and Delilah

1949
as Semadar

Shootdown

1988
as Nan Moore

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000
as Angela Lansbury

Six by Sondheim

2013
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)

Something For Everyone

1970
as Countess Herthe von Ornstein

State of the Union

1948
as Kay Thorndyke

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1959
as Pearl

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

1982
as Nellie Lovett

Tenth Avenue Angel

1948
as Susan Bratten

That's Entertainment! III

1994
as (archive footage)

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

2008
as Narrator

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965
as Lady Blystone

The Blackwater Lightship

2004
as Dora

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

2009
as Self

The Company of Wolves

1984
as Granny

The Court Jester

1956
as Princess Gwendolyn

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960
as Mavis Pruitt

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

1975
as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

1983
as Amanda Fenwick

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as Claudia

The Grinch

2018
as Mayor McGerkle (voice)

The Harvey Girls

1946
as Em

The Hoodlum Saint

1946
as Dusty Millard

The Lady Vanishes

1979
as Miss Froy

The Last Unicorn

1982
as Mommy Fortuna (voice)

The Long, Hot Summer

1958
as Minnie Littlejohn

The Love She Sought

1990
as Agatha McGee

The Manchurian Candidate

1962
as Mrs. Iselin

The Mirror Crack'd

1980
as Miss Jane Marple

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945
as Sibyl Vane

The Pirates of Penzance

1983
as Ruth

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947
as Clotilde de Marelle

The Purple Mask

1955
as Madame Valentine

The Red Danube

1949
as Audrey Quail

The Reluctant Debutante

1958
as Mabel Claremont

The Shell Seekers

1989
as Penelope Keeling

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986
as Angela Lansbury

The Three Musketeers

1948
as Queen Ann

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

1991
as Angela Lansbury

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

1999

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

1990
as Self - Hostess

The World of Henry Orient

1964
as Isabel Boyd

Till the Clouds Roll By

1946
as London Specialty

To Oz! The Making of a Classic

2009
as Self - Hostess

Women He's Undressed

2015
as Self

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007
as Angela Lansbury

Your Studio and You

1995
as Herself

Guest Star

Episode What's My Line?
Angela Lansbury 		1966
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Angela Lansbury, Billy Eckstine, Janet Flanner, Roy Jenkins 		1972
Episode Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Day (2) 		2005
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Angela Lansbury, Walter Cronkite, John Denver 		1990
Episode Today
June 16, 2011 		2011
Episode Newhart
Lights! Camera! Contractions! 		1990
Episode Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Night (1) 		2005
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Night (1) 		2005
Episode Michael Feinstein's American Songbook
Show Tunes 		2013
Episode The Eleventh Hour
Something Crazy's Going On in the Back Room 		1963
Episode Tony Awards
The 22nd Annual Tony Awards 		1968
Episode Tony Awards
The 25th Annual Tony Awards 		1971
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards 		1994
Episode Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
The Christmas Witch 		1994
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Deadly Toys Affair 		1965