For millions Angela Lansbury was the elderly sleuth on Sunday night television who solved a constant stream of killings. The actress died five days shy of her 97th birthday.
Angela Lansbury never made the leap into leading roles, in part because she lacked the glamorous presence of a 1940s star, but she still had a career which film historians say was unmatched.
Angela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, on stage and on television, died at age 96, her family said on Tuesday (Oct 11). Lansbury, who played a crime-solving mystery writer in the long-running US television series Murder,.
NEW YORK (AP) — Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica
Award-winning actress and Disney Legend Angela Lansbury passed away today at her home in Los Angeles at age 96. While probably best known to television audiences as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running detective series Murder, She Wrote, her performa