Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died. He was 94.
He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The Hollywood Reporter.
Lansbury also produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway revival of Gypsy that starred his sister in a Tony-winning turn and worked on other films including The Wild Party (1975), directed by James Ivory.
Angela Lansbury, winner of five Tony Awards and star of Murder, She Wrote, died on Oct. 11, 2022, at age 96. His twin brother, TV producer Bruce Lansbury, died in February 2017 at age 87.
Lansbury’s first Broadway production, the intense family drama The Subject Was Roses, opened in 1964, ran for two years, and won a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony for best play. Written by Frank Gilroy and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it starred Martin Sheen...
He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The Hollywood Reporter.
Lansbury also produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway revival of Gypsy that starred his sister in a Tony-winning turn and worked on other films including The Wild Party (1975), directed by James Ivory.
Angela Lansbury, winner of five Tony Awards and star of Murder, She Wrote, died on Oct. 11, 2022, at age 96. His twin brother, TV producer Bruce Lansbury, died in February 2017 at age 87.
Lansbury’s first Broadway production, the intense family drama The Subject Was Roses, opened in 1964, ran for two years, and won a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony for best play. Written by Frank Gilroy and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it starred Martin Sheen...
- 5/4/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The legendary actress Dame Angela Lansbury, who has delivered memorable performances in countless film roles from 1944 to 2017, died at the age of 96. She reportedly passed “peacefully in her sleep at home” early in the morning Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Known as one of the best character actresses of all time, Lansbury has performed with equal caliber in stories like the long-running mystery series Murder She Wrote, stage musicals like Sweeney Todd, and even some legendary animated films like Anastasia and Beauty and the Beast.
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At the time of her death, Lansbury was one of the last surviving actors associated with the Golden Age of Hollywood. She continued to reinvent herself with strong appearances into her later life, though she will always be best known for appearing in some of the best and most enduring films and Broadway musicals of the mid-20th century.
Known as one of the best character actresses of all time, Lansbury has performed with equal caliber in stories like the long-running mystery series Murder She Wrote, stage musicals like Sweeney Todd, and even some legendary animated films like Anastasia and Beauty and the Beast.
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At the time of her death, Lansbury was one of the last surviving actors associated with the Golden Age of Hollywood. She continued to reinvent herself with strong appearances into her later life, though she will always be best known for appearing in some of the best and most enduring films and Broadway musicals of the mid-20th century.
- 10/12/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
The sad news of the death of Angela Lansbury, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday, brought to an end one of the longest and most storied careers in Hollywood history. While she will perhaps be best remembered for the 265 episodes (and four feature-length movies) she spent playing best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, a stint that earned her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most prolific amateur sleuth”, Lansbury packed her eight decades on stage and screen with a host of memorable roles. To each of them, she brought a whimsical humour and gentle warmth which could sometimes mask her deceptively sharp wit.
Born on 16 October 1925 in Regent’s Park, London, Lansbury left Britain with her family after the onset of the blitz in 1940. Her mother, the Belfast-born actor Moyna Macgill, moved Lansbury and her brothers Bruce and Edgar to New York,...
Born on 16 October 1925 in Regent’s Park, London, Lansbury left Britain with her family after the onset of the blitz in 1940. Her mother, the Belfast-born actor Moyna Macgill, moved Lansbury and her brothers Bruce and Edgar to New York,...
- 10/12/2022
- The Independent - Film
The sad news of the death of Angela Lansbury, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday, brought to an end one of the longest and most storied careers in Hollywood history. While she will perhaps be best remembered for the 265 episodes (and four feature-length movies) she spent playing best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, a stint that earned her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most prolific amateur sleuth”, Lansbury packed her eight decades on stage and screen with a host of memorable roles. To each of them, she brought a whimsical humour and gentle warmth which could sometimes mask her deceptively sharp wit.
Born on 16 October 1925 in Regent’s Park, London, Lansbury left Britain with her family after the onset of the blitz in 1940. Her mother, the Belfast-born actor Moyna Macgill, moved Lansbury and her brothers Bruce and Edgar to New York,...
Born on 16 October 1925 in Regent’s Park, London, Lansbury left Britain with her family after the onset of the blitz in 1940. Her mother, the Belfast-born actor Moyna Macgill, moved Lansbury and her brothers Bruce and Edgar to New York,...
- 10/12/2022
- The Independent - TV
Star of stage and screen earned three Oscar nominations and multiple Tony Awards.
Angela Lansbury, the London-born star of stage, film and TV who earned three Oscar nominations and will perhaps be best remembered for her long-running role in TV hit Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.
Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925, in central London to Irish actor Moyna Macgill and MP Edgar Lansbury, whose father George Lansbury led the Labour Party in the 1930s.
She was nine when her father died. Aged 14 Lansbury, her mother and two siblings were evacuated from the Blitz. The family sailed from Liverpool to New York,...
Angela Lansbury, the London-born star of stage, film and TV who earned three Oscar nominations and will perhaps be best remembered for her long-running role in TV hit Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.
Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925, in central London to Irish actor Moyna Macgill and MP Edgar Lansbury, whose father George Lansbury led the Labour Party in the 1930s.
She was nine when her father died. Aged 14 Lansbury, her mother and two siblings were evacuated from the Blitz. The family sailed from Liverpool to New York,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Angela Lansbury, the revered actor who won five Tony Awards and anchored the long-running smash TV series Murder, She Wrote, died on Tuesday, Oct. 11, The New York Times reports. She was 96.
Lansbury’s family confirmed her death in a statement, though a cause was not given. Lansbury was just five days away from her 97th birthday.
A star on both the stage and screen, Lansbury picked up multiple Oscar nominations and won five Tony awards over the course of her remarkable career. Lansbury began acting professionally when she was a teenager,...
Lansbury’s family confirmed her death in a statement, though a cause was not given. Lansbury was just five days away from her 97th birthday.
A star on both the stage and screen, Lansbury picked up multiple Oscar nominations and won five Tony awards over the course of her remarkable career. Lansbury began acting professionally when she was a teenager,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Angela Lansbury, one of the most iconic actresses in Hollywood, has died.
She was 96.
According to People, Lansbury passed away in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles.
"The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," her family says in a statement obtained by the outlet.
"In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury," the statement adds.
"She was proceeded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw."
"A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined."
Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925 in London, England.
Her mother, Moyna Macgill, was well...
She was 96.
According to People, Lansbury passed away in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles.
"The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," her family says in a statement obtained by the outlet.
"In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury," the statement adds.
"She was proceeded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw."
"A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined."
Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925 in London, England.
Her mother, Moyna Macgill, was well...
- 10/11/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Actress Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career encompassed triumphs on the big screen, in musical theater and on television, died at her Los Angeles home on Tuesday, her family announced in a statement obtained by Variety. She was 96 — five days shy of her 97th birthday.
Nominated for three Oscars, she won seven Tony Awards and holds the record for Emmy actress nods with 12 for her role on “Murder, She Wrote.”
As honored as she was in film and on stage, Lansbury achieved her greatest popularity on the small screen. In 1984 she stepped into a role originally offered to Jean Stapleton: the flinty crime-solving mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote.” The show became appointment TV for its fans on Sunday nights, and ran for 12 highly rated seasons. The actress captured four Golden Globe Awards for her turn. Between 1997 and 2003, she reprised the role in four telepics.
Discovered while...
Nominated for three Oscars, she won seven Tony Awards and holds the record for Emmy actress nods with 12 for her role on “Murder, She Wrote.”
As honored as she was in film and on stage, Lansbury achieved her greatest popularity on the small screen. In 1984 she stepped into a role originally offered to Jean Stapleton: the flinty crime-solving mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote.” The show became appointment TV for its fans on Sunday nights, and ran for 12 highly rated seasons. The actress captured four Golden Globe Awards for her turn. Between 1997 and 2003, she reprised the role in four telepics.
Discovered while...
- 10/11/2022
- by Chris Morris
- Variety Film + TV
Angela Lansbury, whose career crossed theater, film, and television across more than seven decades, has died at the age of 96. Her death was announced by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on his Twitter account on Tuesday afternoon and confirmed by NBC News. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 Am today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family said in a statement.
The actress is best known for “Murder, She Wrote,” but started her career in 1944 and has delighted generations of fans with nearly 150 credits. That includes everything ranging from voice-over performances to musicals and dramas. Lansbury was able to be anything an audience needed, from a warmhearted mother to a vicious villain.
Angela Brigid Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925 in London, England. She was born into entertainment,...
The actress is best known for “Murder, She Wrote,” but started her career in 1944 and has delighted generations of fans with nearly 150 credits. That includes everything ranging from voice-over performances to musicals and dramas. Lansbury was able to be anything an audience needed, from a warmhearted mother to a vicious villain.
Angela Brigid Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925 in London, England. She was born into entertainment,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
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Angela Lansbury, the irrepressible three-time Oscar nominee and five-time Tony Award winner who solved 12 seasons’ worth of crimes as the novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.
Lansbury, who received an Emmy nomination for best actress in a drama series for each and every season of Murder, She Wrote — yet never won — died in her sleep at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her family announced. She was five days shy of her birthday.
Lansbury went 0-for-18 in career Emmy noms but did get some love from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who gave her an honorary Oscar in 2013 for her career as “an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema’s most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors.”
The London-born Lansbury, then 19, received a best supporting actress...
Angela Lansbury, the irrepressible three-time Oscar nominee and five-time Tony Award winner who solved 12 seasons’ worth of crimes as the novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.
Lansbury, who received an Emmy nomination for best actress in a drama series for each and every season of Murder, She Wrote — yet never won — died in her sleep at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her family announced. She was five days shy of her birthday.
Lansbury went 0-for-18 in career Emmy noms but did get some love from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who gave her an honorary Oscar in 2013 for her career as “an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema’s most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors.”
The London-born Lansbury, then 19, received a best supporting actress...
- 10/11/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Aug. 11, 1943, Variety carried a story beginning “Angela Lansbury, 17-year-old English girl, is the colony’s latest Cinderella.” The story said she had gone from an unknown to movie star in only four days.
Since then, Lansbury has forged a career that defies all logic. She received supporting-actress Oscar nominations twice in her first two years of work. At age 41, she became a musical-comedy star with “Mame.” She became a TV star with “Murder, She Wrote” at age 59, an age when most actresses can’t find work. In the show’s 12-year run, she was one of the TV industry’s most powerful women. Maybe her biggest accomplishment: Though powerful women were sometimes maligned, it was thought you needed to be heartless to survive in showbiz, Lansbury has created a 77-year career and nobody has a bad word to say about her.
Lansbury, who turns 95 Friday, is best known for...
Since then, Lansbury has forged a career that defies all logic. She received supporting-actress Oscar nominations twice in her first two years of work. At age 41, she became a musical-comedy star with “Mame.” She became a TV star with “Murder, She Wrote” at age 59, an age when most actresses can’t find work. In the show’s 12-year run, she was one of the TV industry’s most powerful women. Maybe her biggest accomplishment: Though powerful women were sometimes maligned, it was thought you needed to be heartless to survive in showbiz, Lansbury has created a 77-year career and nobody has a bad word to say about her.
Lansbury, who turns 95 Friday, is best known for...
- 10/16/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
1. The term "gaslight." The Ingrid Bergman thriller "Gaslight" -- released 70 years ago this week, on May 4, 1944, wasn't the original use of the title. There was Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play "Gas Light," retitled "Angel Street" when it came to Broadway a couple years later. And there was a British film version in 1939, starring Anton Walbrook (later the cruel impresario in "The Red Shoes") and Diana Wynyard.
Still, the glossy 1944 MGM version remains the best-known telling of the tale, with the title an apparent reference to the flickering Victorian lamps that are part of Gregory's (Charles Boyer) scheme to make wife Paula (Bergman) think she's seeing things that aren't there, thus deliberately undermining her sanity in order to have her institutionalized so that he'll be free to ransack the ancestral home to find the missing family jewels.
This version of Hamilton's tale was so popular that it made the word "gaslight"into a verb,...
Still, the glossy 1944 MGM version remains the best-known telling of the tale, with the title an apparent reference to the flickering Victorian lamps that are part of Gregory's (Charles Boyer) scheme to make wife Paula (Bergman) think she's seeing things that aren't there, thus deliberately undermining her sanity in order to have her institutionalized so that he'll be free to ransack the ancestral home to find the missing family jewels.
This version of Hamilton's tale was so popular that it made the word "gaslight"into a verb,...
- 5/9/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
After 40 years, the British-born actress who conquered Hollywood and starred in TV's Murder, She Wrote is back on the West End stage. As she approaches her 90s, she's in her theatrical prime
In the play Blithe Spirit, the wildly eccentric and chaotic clairvoyant Madame Arcati, Noël Coward's most colourful creation, announces that "time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked".
No aphorism has ever applied less than this does to the actress now about to don the headscarves and bangles to play Arcati in the West End at the age of 88. Dame Angela Lansbury, ennobled earlier this month, has defied the laws of nature by becoming more theatrically prolific as her years have advanced. In 2007, she was Tony award-nominated for her role in a new Terrence McNally play, Deuce, on Broadway; in 2010, she was nominated again for a revival of Sondheim's A Little Night Music; and then,...
In the play Blithe Spirit, the wildly eccentric and chaotic clairvoyant Madame Arcati, Noël Coward's most colourful creation, announces that "time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked".
No aphorism has ever applied less than this does to the actress now about to don the headscarves and bangles to play Arcati in the West End at the age of 88. Dame Angela Lansbury, ennobled earlier this month, has defied the laws of nature by becoming more theatrically prolific as her years have advanced. In 2007, she was Tony award-nominated for her role in a new Terrence McNally play, Deuce, on Broadway; in 2010, she was nominated again for a revival of Sondheim's A Little Night Music; and then,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Angela Lansbury says she’s relieved that a planned remake of her classic whodunit series Murder, She Wrote has been canceled.
Lansbury had been critical of NBC’s idea of a reboot starring Octavia Spencer. It was reported this week that NBC was not going ahead with the show.
Lansbury said Thursday she thought the remake was a bad idea from the start.
“I couldn’t believe that they would even consider doing such a thing,” Lansbury told The Associated Press. “I think it was an awful mistake and it was a terrible disservice” to Spencer, she said. “I have...
Lansbury had been critical of NBC’s idea of a reboot starring Octavia Spencer. It was reported this week that NBC was not going ahead with the show.
Lansbury said Thursday she thought the remake was a bad idea from the start.
“I couldn’t believe that they would even consider doing such a thing,” Lansbury told The Associated Press. “I think it was an awful mistake and it was a terrible disservice” to Spencer, she said. “I have...
- 1/23/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, Saturday, August 10, 2013. I’m a little — or rather, a lot — late in the game posting this article, but there are still three Lana Turner movies left. You can see Turner get herself embroiled in scandal right now, in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959), both the director and the star’s biggest box-office hit. More scandal follows in Mark Robson’s Peyton Place (1957), the movie that earned Lana Turner her one and only Academy Award nomination. And wrapping things up is George Sidney’s lively The Three Musketeers (1948), with Turner as the ruthless, heartless, remorseless — but quite elegant — Lady de Winter. Based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and a remake of John M. Stahl’s 1934 melodrama about mother love, class disparities, racism, and good cooking, Imitation of Life was shown on...
- 8/11/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Veteran actress Angela Lansbury is appealing to producers in London to consider her for upcoming roles at the city's Haymarket Theatre - because she longs to perform on the same stage her mother once graced.
The Murder, She Wrote star has enjoyed an illustrious theatre career, which has won her five Tony Awards over the years.
She was most recently seen in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music on Broadway opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, but bowed out of the show last summer. Lansbury is now hoping to return to her native U.K. to appear in the West End - but she will only sign up if she is given the chance to work at the same venue where her late mother, actress Moyna MacGill, once performed.
She tells Britain's The Guardian, "I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played. It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."...
The Murder, She Wrote star has enjoyed an illustrious theatre career, which has won her five Tony Awards over the years.
She was most recently seen in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music on Broadway opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, but bowed out of the show last summer. Lansbury is now hoping to return to her native U.K. to appear in the West End - but she will only sign up if she is given the chance to work at the same venue where her late mother, actress Moyna MacGill, once performed.
She tells Britain's The Guardian, "I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played. It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."...
- 5/2/2011
- WENN
Visiting the UK in tribute to her Labour leader grandfather, the Murder, She Wrote star reveals hope of capping her Hollywood career by appearing on the West End stage her mother once performed on
One of Britain's brightest and most durable stars of stage and screen, Angela Lansbury, is hoping to round off her Hollywood and Broadway career with a theatrical run on the West End stage where her mother performed.
"I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played," she said. "It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."
Lansbury, 85, is due to return to her native Britain next week to celebrate the life of her grandfather, George Lansbury, a founder of the Labour party. On the eve of her visit, she talked to the Observer about her English heritage,...
One of Britain's brightest and most durable stars of stage and screen, Angela Lansbury, is hoping to round off her Hollywood and Broadway career with a theatrical run on the West End stage where her mother performed.
"I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played," she said. "It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."
Lansbury, 85, is due to return to her native Britain next week to celebrate the life of her grandfather, George Lansbury, a founder of the Labour party. On the eve of her visit, she talked to the Observer about her English heritage,...
- 4/30/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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