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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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Mary Poppins Returns	Balloon Lady	—	2018
90%	Carol Channing: Larger Than Life	Angela Lansbury	$16k	2012
47%	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	Beauty and the Beast: DVD Read-Along	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	On Cukor	Actor	—	2000
82%	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	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
77%	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
80%	The Pirates of Penzance	Ruth	—	1983
63%	The Last Unicorn	Mommy Fortuna	—	1982
No Score Yet	Little Gloria: Happy at Last	Actor	—	1982
71%	The Mirror Crack'd	Miss Marple	—	1980
20%	The Lady Vanishes	Miss Froy	—	1979
82%	Death on the Nile	Salome Otterbourne	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Story of the First Christmas Snow (First Christmas)	Narrator	—	1975
63%	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Miss Price	—	1971
No Score Yet	Something for Everyone	Countess Herthe von Ornstein	—	1970
No Score Yet	Mister Buddwing	Gloria	—	1966
37%	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
89%	The World of Henry Orient	Isabel Boyd	—	1964
No Score Yet	In the Cool of the Day	Sybil Logan	—	1963
98%	The Manchurian Candidate	Raymond's Mother	—	1962
No Score Yet	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
17%	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
No Score Yet	The Reluctant Debutante	Mabel Claremont	—	1958
88%	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
57%	Samson and Delilah	Semadar	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Red Danube	Audrey Quail	—	1949
No Score Yet	Tenth Avenue Angel	Susan Bratten	—	1948
71%	The Three Musketeers	Queen Anne	—	1948
No Score Yet	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
91%	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Sibyl Vane	—	1945
100%	National Velvet	Edwina Brown	—	1944
85%	Gaslight	Nancy Oliver	—	1944

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
83%	Little Women 2017	Aunt March	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	American Masters 2001	Actor	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	Magnum, P.I. 1980-1988	Jessica Fletcher	1986
No Score Yet	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1964-1968	Actor	1966 1965

Quotes from Angela Lansbury's Characters

Mrs. Potts:	What should we do, Master?
Beast:	It doesn't matter now. Just let them come.

Sophie:	Isn't it romantic? It's a perfect ending.
Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna:	No. It's a perfect beginning.

Chip:	Mama, there's a girl in the castle!
Mrs. Potts:	Now, Chip, I won't have you making up such stories. Now into the tub.
Chip:	But mama!
Featherduster:	Madame! There is a girl in the castle!
Chip:	See! I told you.

Mrs. Potts:

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

Chip:	What's there, Mama?
Mrs. Potts:	Shhh. I'll tell you when you're older.
Mrs. Potts:	(kisses Chip on the cheek)

Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna:	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:	Not anymore.
Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna:	Why the change of mind?
Dimitri:	It was more a change of heart. I must go.

Mrs. Iselin:

Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?

Mommy Fortuna:

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

Mommy Fortuna:	You belong to me!
Unicorn:	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:	I'd quit show business first!

Edwina Brown:	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:	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:

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

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

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