Angela Lansbury, the British star of stage and screen who rose to international fame as a widowed mystery writer-turned-amateur sleuth in “Murder, She Wrote” and for her appearance as a teapot with an angelic voice in Disney's “Beauty and the Beast,” has died.
Lansbury was 96. Her family said she “died peacefully in her sleep.”
As NBC News reports:
“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 London-born actor took her life's final bow as one of the most decorated players in stage history.
Lansbury won five Tony Awards, most recently in 2009 for best featured actress in a play for her work in Noel Coward's “Blithe Spirit.”
Her best known work on the Great White Way was probably as ghoulish pie maker Nellie Lovett, in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” She cooked up a Tony for best musical actress in 1979 for that role.
Lansbury's career spanned eight decades and included three Oscar nominations and 18 Emmy nominations. She's arguably best known to American audiences for her starring role in “Murder, She Wrote.” The show became one of CBS' most popular hits of the 1980s and lives on in syndication and streaming services.
In 2016, Lansbury appeared at Lincoln Center in New York for the 25th anniversary “Beauty and the Beast” concert where she sang the film's title song to an adoring crowd:
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Don’t forget her role in “Pirates of Penzance”. Just an amazing actress and singer, And she didn’t have to take her clothes off to be noticed. Just worked hard and refined her skills. Such a lady.
One of her famous roles was as the chambermaid, Nancy along with Ingrid Bergman in the thriller, Gaslight. She was quite young at the time. A very versatile actress.
Just after Her Majesty, to boot! May her memory be blessed and live forever. We always loved her in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, watching the bloody Jerries get trounced at the White Cliffs of Dover. Disney movies were much, much different in those halcyon days.