Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Highest Rated: 100% Till the Clouds Roll By (1947)

Lowest Rated: 13% Beauty and the Beast - The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Birthday: Oct 16, 1925

Birthplace: London, England, UK

Angela Lansbury received an Oscar nomination for her first film, Gaslight, in 1944, and has been winning acting awards and audience favor ever since. Born in London to a family that included both politicians and performers, Lansbury came to the U.S. during World War II. She made notable early film appearances as the snooty sister in National Velvet (1944); the pathetic singer in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), which garnered her another Academy nomination; and the madam-with-a-heart-of-gold saloon singer in The Harvey Girls (1946). She turned evil as the manipulative publisher in State of the Union (1948), but was just as convincing as the good queen in The Three Musketeers (1948) and the petulant daughter in The Court Jester (1956). She received another Oscar nomination for her chilling performance as Laurence Harvey's scheming mother in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and appeared as the addled witch in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), among other later films. On Broadway, she won Tony awards for the musicals Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), the revival of Gypsy (1975), Sweeney Todd (1979) and, at age 82, for the play Blithe Spirit (2009). Despite a season in the '50s on the game show Pantomime Quiz, she came to series television late, starring in 1984-1996 as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote; she took over as producer of the show in the '90s. She returned to the Disney studios to record the voice of Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast (1991) and to sing the title song and later reprised the role in the direct-to-video sequel, The Enchanted Christmas (1997). Lansbury is the sister of TV producer Bruce Lansbury.

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
79% Mary Poppins Returns Balloon Lady — 2018
No Score Yet Buttons: A Christmas Tale Actor — 2018
59% The Grinch Mayor McGerkle — 2018
89% Every Act of Life Actor — 2017
90% Carol Channing: Larger Than Life Angela Lansbury $16K 2012
48% Mr. Popper's Penguins Mrs. Van Gundy $68.2M 2011
No Score Yet Heidi 4 Paws Grandmamma — 2008
73% Nanny McPhee Great Aunt Adelaide $47.2M 2006
No Score Yet Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of the Tony Awards Gypsy — 2005
83% Broadway: The Golden Age Actor — 2004
No Score Yet The Blackwater Lightship Granny — 2004
No Score Yet Broadway's Lost Treasures II Actor — 2004
No Score Yet Broadway's Lost Treasures Host — 2003
No Score Yet Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle Jessica Fletcher — 2003
No Score Yet Beauty and the Beast: DVD Read-Along Actor — 2002
No Score Yet Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man Jessica Fletcher — 2001
No Score Yet On Cukor Actor — 2000
81% Fantasia 2000 Narrator — 2000
No Score Yet Forever Hollywood Actor — 2000
No Score Yet Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For Jessica Fletcher — 2000
85% Anastasia Dowager Empress Marie — 1997
13% Beauty and the Beast - The Enchanted Christmas Mrs. Potts — 1997
No Score Yet Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest Jessica Fletcher — 1997
No Score Yet Mrs. Santa Claus Mrs. Santa Claus — 1996
No Score Yet Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Bowl Actor — 1994
No Score Yet Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris Ada Harris — 1992
No Score Yet Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories Actor — 1992
94% Beauty and the Beast Mrs. Potts $47.7M 1991
No Score Yet The Shell Seekers Penelope Keeling — 1989
No Score Yet Shootdown Nan Moore — 1988
No Score Yet Spencer Tracy Legacy Actor — 1987
79% The Company of Wolves Granny — 1984
No Score Yet Little Gloria...Happy at Last Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — 1984
No Score Yet Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Actor — 1984
No Score Yet The First Olympics: Athens 1896 Alice Garrett — 1984
No Score Yet Lace Actor — 1984
81% The Pirates of Penzance Ruth — 1983
71% The Last Unicorn Mommy Fortuna — 1982
No Score Yet Little Gloria: Happy at Last Actor — 1982
63% The Mirror Crack'd Miss Marple — 1980
33% The Lady Vanishes Miss Froy — 1979
69% Death on the Nile Salome Otterbourne — 1978
No Score Yet The Story of the First Christmas Snow (First Christmas) Narrator — 1975
66% Bedknobs and Broomsticks Miss Price — 1971
No Score Yet Something for Everyone Countess Herthe von Ornstein — 1970
No Score Yet Mister Buddwing Gloria — 1966
No Score Yet Harlow Mama Jean Bello — 1965
38% The Greatest Story Ever Told Claudia — 1965
No Score Yet Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders Lady Blystone — 1965
No Score Yet Dear Heart Phyllis — 1964
90% The World of Henry Orient Isabel Boyd — 1964
No Score Yet In the Cool of the Day Sybil Logan — 1963
96% The Manchurian Candidate Raymond's Mother — 1962
40% All Fall Down Annabell Willart — 1962
No Score Yet The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse Marguerite Laurier — 1962
No Score Yet Season of Passion Pearl — 1961
29% Blue Hawaii Sarah Lee Gates — 1961
No Score Yet A Breath of Scandal Countess Lina — 1960
No Score Yet The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Mavis Pruitt — 1960
40% The Reluctant Debutante Mabel Claremont — 1958
89% The Long, Hot Summer Minnie Littlejohn — 1958
No Score Yet Please Murder Me Myra Leeds — 1957
96% The Court Jester Princess Gwendolyn — 1956
No Score Yet A Lawless Street Tally Dickenson — 1955
No Score Yet Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis Actor — 1955
No Score Yet The Purple Mask Mme. Valentine — 1955
No Score Yet Mutiny Leslie — 1952
No Score Yet Kind Lady Mrs. Edwards — 1951
63% Samson and Delilah Semadar — 1949
No Score Yet The Red Danube Audrey Quail — 1949
No Score Yet Tenth Avenue Angel Susan Bratten — 1948
78% The Three Musketeers Queen Anne — 1948
80% State of the Union Kay Thorndyke — 1948
100% Till the Clouds Roll By Guest Performer — 1947
No Score Yet If Winter Comes Mabel Sabre — 1947
No Score Yet The Private Affairs of Bel Ami Clothilde de Marelle — 1947
No Score Yet The Hoodlum Saint Dusty Millard — 1946
100% The Harvey Girls Em — 1946
92% The Picture of Dorian Gray Sibyl Vane — 1945
100% National Velvet Edwina Brown — 1944
87% Gaslight Nancy Oliver — 1944

TV

Credit
84% Little Women
2017 		Aunt March 2019
2018
No Score Yet Great Performances
2000 		Performer Daisy Werthan 2015
No Score Yet Michael Feinstein's American Songbook
2010-2013 		Guest 2013
No Score Yet Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 		Eleanor Duvall 2005
No Score Yet Touched by an Angel
1994-2003 		Penelope Berrington 2002
No Score Yet American Masters
2001 		2000
No Score Yet Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996 		Executive Producer Jessica Fletcher/Emma Jessica Beatrice Fletcher Jessica Fletcher Jessica Emma 1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
No Score Yet Newhart
1982-1990 		Cameo 1990
No Score Yet Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988 		Jessica Fletcher 1986
100% The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
1964-1968 		1966
1965
1964

QUOTES FROM Angela Lansbury CHARACTERS

Mrs. Potts says: What should we do, Master?

Beast says: It doesn't matter now. Just let them come.

Sophie says: Isn't it romantic? It's a perfect ending.

Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna says: No. It's a perfect beginning.

Chip says: Mama, there's a girl in the castle!

Mrs. Potts says: Now, Chip, I won't have you making up such stories. Now into the tub.

Chip says: But mama!

Featherduster says: Madame! There is a girl in the castle!

Chip says: See! I told you.

Mrs. Potts says: Tale as old as time true as it can be. Barely even friends then somebody bends unexpectedly.

Chip says: What's there, Mama?

Mrs. Potts says: Shhh. I'll tell you when you're older.

Mrs. Potts says: (kisses Chip on the cheek)

Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna says: You were the boy, weren't you - the servant boy who got us out? You saved her life and mine and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward

Dimitri says: Not anymore.

Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna says: Why the change of mind?

Dimitri says: It was more a change of heart. I must go.

Mrs. Iselin says: Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?

Mommy Fortuna says: [laughs maniacally] Not alone! You could have never freed yourselves alone! I held you! [The Harpy, Celaeno, swoops down and kills her]

Mommy Fortuna says: You belong to me!

Unicorn says: You know better. Keep your shadows, if you will, but let me go. And let her go. I cannot see her caged. She is real, like me. We are two sides of the same magic. Let her go.

Mommy Fortuna says: I'd quit show business first!

Edwina Brown says: â??Weâ??re alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldnâ??t swim the Channel. Youâ??re twelve; you think a horse of yours can win the Grand National. Your dream has come early; but remember, Velvet, it will have to last you all the rest of your life.â??

Edwina Brown says: We're alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn't swim the Channel. You're twelve; you think a horse of yours can win the Grand National. Your dream has come early; but remember, Velvet, it will have to last you all the rest of your life.

Edwina Brown says: That'll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown, whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.

Sophie says: I will ask very hard questions.

Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna says: No. My heart can't take it anymore. I will see no more girls claiming to be Anastasia.

Narrator says: "Tales as old as time song as old as rhyme Beauty and the Beast" - Ms. Potts

Mrs. Potts says: Tales as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the Beast.