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Actress: Angela Lansbury
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I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
— Angela Lansbury, 1986
ONE of the most enduring, versatile, and hard-working actresses around, Lansbury has made indelible impressions in the worlds of film, theatre, and TV. The granddaughter of the British Labour Party's leader and daughter of a well-known actress, she studied drama as a child before being evacuated to the United States during the German blitz. At 17, her very first Hollywood role — as the Cockney maid in Gaslight — won her an Oscar nomination and a seven-year M-G-M contract. She was nominated again the next year, for The Picture of Dorian Gray. She was usually cast in supporting character parts, and often played overbearing older women ("venal bitches," she calls them). She was most effective as the chilling mother in The Manchurian Candidate, in 1962, for which she won another Academy nomination.
In the late '60s, Lansbury's Malibu house burned down and she moved her family to Ireland. She returned to the States in triumph to show off her musical gifts on Broadway, where she became a four-time Tony winner. She's also hosted numerous Tony and Emmy Award telecasts. Twelve years as sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the hit series Murder, She Wrote made Lansbury a TV superstar at 70, and she perpetuated her popularity with audiences of all ages by lending her noteworthy diction to the animated features, Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Anastasia (1997).
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: October 16, 1925
Place of Birth: London, England, U.K.
Sign: Sun in Libra, Moon in Libra
Relations: Husband-manager: Peter Shaw; kids: Anthony Peter, Deidre Angela
Education: Webber-Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art; Feagin School of Drama and Radio
Fan Mail: C/O William Morris Agency
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MOVIES
Actor
The Love She Sought — 1990
The Shell Seekers — 1989
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues — 1986
Ingrid — 1985
The Company of Wolves — 1985
The First Olympics--Athens 1896 — 1984
Lace — 1984
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story — 1983
Pirates of Penzance — 1983
Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last — 1982
The Mirror Crack'd — 1980
The Lady Vanishes — 1979
Death on the Nile — 1978
The Three Musketeers — 1974
Bedknobs and Broomsticks — 1971
Something for Everyone — 1970
Mr. Buddwing — 1966
Harlow — 1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders — 1965
Dear Heart — 1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told — 1965
The World of Henry Orient — 1964
In the Cool of the Day — 1963
The Manchurian Candidate — 1962
All Fall Down — 1962
Blue Hawaii — 1961
Season of Passion — 1961
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs — 1960
A Breath of Scandal — 1960
Summer of the 17th Doll — 1959
The Reluctant Debutante — 1958
The Long Hot Summer — 1958
The Court Jester — 1956
Enjeu de la vie/A Life at Stake — 1955
Please Murder Me — 1955
The Purple Mask — 1955
A Lawless Street — 1955
Remains To Be Seen — 1953
Mutiny — 1952
Kind Lady — 1951
The Red Danube — 1949
Samson and Delilah — 1949
State of the Union — 1948
If Winter Comes — 1948
Tenth Avenue Angel — 1948
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami — 1947
The Hoodlum Saint — 1946
Till the Clouds Roll By — 1946
The Picture of Dorian Gray — 1945
The Harvey Girls — 1945
National Velvet — 1944
Gaslight — 1944
Other Movie Credits
Anastasia — 1997 (Voice only)
Beauty and the Beast — 1991 (Voice only)
The Pirates of Penzance — 1983 (Voice only)
BOOKS
Positive Moves
TV
Mrs. Santa Claus — 1996 (Movie)
Inside the Dream Factory — 1995 (Special; host)
The Kennedy Center Honors — 1993 (Song Performer)
The Best of Disney Music — 1993 (Song Performer)
The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards — 1993 (Host)
The 104th Tournament of Roses Parade — 1993 (Grand Marshal)
Bob Hope: The First Ninety Years — 1993 (Host)
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories — 1992 (Series; narrated "The Christmas Witch")
Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris — 1992 (Movie)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — 1990 (Special; host, narrator)
The Love She Sought — 1990 (Movie)
The Shell Seekers — 1989 (Movie)
The 43rd Annual Tony Awards — 1989 (Host, Song Performer)
CBS Premiere Preview Spectacular — 1989 (Special; host)
The 42nd Annual Tony Awards — 1988 (Host)
Shootdown — 1988 (Movie)
The 41st Annual Tony Awards — 1987 (Host)
Rage of Angels — 1986 (Mini-Series)
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 — 1984 (Mini-Series)
Scene of the Crime — 1984 (Series)
Murder, She Wrote — 1984 - 1996 (Series; performer, executive producer)
Lace — 1984 (Mini-Series)
The Gift of Love — 1983 (Movie)
Little Gloria--Happy at Last — 1982 ( )
Circus of the Stars — 1982 (Special; ringmaster)
The First Christmas Snow — 1975 (Special; voice only)
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