Angela Lansbury: movies and TV shows
Angela Lansbury has 194 credits in the archive: 132 films and 62 TV series, from 1944 to 2023. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2023 · busiest year: 1956 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Commitment to Life | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 97 |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Angela Lansbury | Film | 7.0 | 96 |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Film | 7.0 | 96 | |
| 2021 | Show of Titles | "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer | Film | — | 95 |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Film | 7.8 | 93 | |
| 2018 | The Grinch | Mayor McGerkle (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 92 |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Balloon Lady | Film | 6.5 | 92 |
| 2018 | Buttons | Rose | Film | 6.3 | 92 |
| 2018 | Every Act of Life | Self | Film | 6.4 | 92 |
| 2018 | Howard | Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 92 |
| 2018 | Harold Prince: The Director's Life | Film | — | 92 | |
| 2017 | Little Women | Aunt March | TV | 7.1 | 91 |
| 2017 | Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches | Self | Film | — | 91 |
| 2017 | Miracle on 42nd Street | Self | Film | — | 91 |
| 2015 | Women He's Undressed | Self | Film | 5.4 | 89 |
| 2015 | Driving Miss Daisy | Daisy Werthan | Film | 8.0 | 89 |
| 2013 | Six by Sondheim | Mrs. Lovett (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 87 |
| 2011 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Mrs. Van Gundy | Film | 6.0 | 85 |
| 2010 | Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast | Self | Film | — | 84 |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 83 |
| 2009 | The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story | Self | Film | 7.3 | 83 |
| 2009 | To Oz! The Making of a Classic | Self / Hostess | Film | — | 83 |
| 2008 | Heidi 4 Paws | Grandmother (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 82 |
| 2008 | The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 82 |
| 2008 | Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times | Self | Film | — | 82 |
| 2007 | Elvis: #1 Hit Performances | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 81 |
| 2007 | Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 81 |
| 2007 | Words and Music by Jerry Herman | Self | Film | — | 81 |
| 2006 | Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury | Self | Film | — | 80 |
| 2005 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Eleanor Duvall | TV | 8.1 | 79 |
| 2005 | Nanny McPhee | Aunt Adelaide | Film | 6.7 | 79 |
| 2005 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards | Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 79 |
| 2005 | Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party | Mrs. Potts (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 79 |
| 2004 | The Blackwater Lightship | Dora | Film | 6.1 | 78 |
| 2004 | Queen of Diamonds | Herself | Film | — | 78 |
| 2004 | Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream | Mrs. Potts (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 78 |
| 2004 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies | Self | Film | 8.3 | 78 |
| 2004 | Broadway's Lost Treasures II | Mame Dennis (segment "Mame") | Film | 8.3 | 78 |
| 2003 | Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle | Jessica Fletcher | Film | 7.1 | 77 |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | Film | 7.0 | 77 |
| 2003 | Broadway's Lost Treasures | Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd") | Film | 6.4 | 77 |
| 2003 | Reflections on 'Gaslight' | Self | Film | 7.3 | 77 |
| 2003 | The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series | Self | Film | 9.4 | 77 |
| 2002 | The Cockettes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 76 |
| 2002 | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 76 |
| 2002 | The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury | Self | Film | 9.0 | 76 |
| 2001 | Disney Through The Decades | Film | — | 75 | |
| 2001 | Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2001 | Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All | Narrator | Film | 8.8 | 75 |
| 2001 | Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Self | Film | 10.0 | 75 |
| 2000 | Fantasia 2000 | Self - Host | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2000 | Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Jessica Fletcher | Film | 6.8 | 74 |
| 2000 | On Cukor | Self | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Eleanor Duvall | TV | 8.0 | 73 |
| 1999 | Forever Hollywood | Self | Film | 8.3 | 73 |
| 1999 | The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax | Emily Pollifax | Film | 6.6 | 73 |
| 1998 | Glorious Technicolor | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 72 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 71 |
| 1997 | Anastasia | Dowager Empress Marie (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 71 |
| 1997 | Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | Mrs. Potts (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 71 |
| 1997 | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Jessica Fletcher | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream | Self | Film | 6.3 | 71 |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self - Guest | TV | 4.1 | 70 |
| 1996 | Mrs. Santa Claus | Mrs. Santa Claus | Film | 6.2 | 70 |
| 1996 | A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 1995 | Your Studio and You | Angela Lansbury | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 1995 | A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim | Film | — | 69 | |
| 1995 | Inside the Dream Factory | Self | Film | 8.0 | 69 |
| 1995 | Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall | Narrator | Film | — | 69 |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Lady Penelope Berrington | TV | 7.2 | 68 |
| 1994 | The World of Hammer | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.8 | 68 |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 68 |
| 1994 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch | Narrator | Film | — | 68 |
| 1994 | Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl | Self | Film | 9.0 | 68 |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self | TV | 4.5 | 67 |
| 1992 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | Narrator (voice) | TV | 9.5 | 66 |
| 1992 | Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | Mrs. Ada Harris | Film | 7.5 | 66 |
| 1992 | Euro Disney : L'Ouverture | Self - Chanteuse | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1992 | Mickey's Audition | Sylvia | Film | 4.0 | 66 |
| 1992 | The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland | Self - Performer | Film | 7.3 | 66 |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Mrs. Potts (voice) | Film | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1991 | The Trouble With Agatha Christie | Self - Actress | Film | 10.0 | 65 |
| 1990 | The Love She Sought | Agatha McGee | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 1990 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic | Self - Host | Film | 8.3 | 64 |
| 1989 | The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1988 | Shootdown | Nan Moore | Film | 5.7 | 62 |
| 1988 | Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves | Herself | Film | — | 62 |
| 1986 | Rage of Angels: The Story Continues | Marchesa Allabrandi | TV | 8.7 | 60 |
| 1986 | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self | Film | 8.3 | 60 |
| 1986 | Rage of Angels: The Story Continues | Marchesa Allabrandi | Film | 5.8 | 60 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Jessica Fletcher | TV | 7.5 | 58 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | TV | 7.5 | 58 | |
| 1984 | The Company of Wolves | Granny | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 1984 | Lace | Aunt Hortense Boutin | TV | 7.2 | 58 |
| 1984 | The First Olympics: Athens 1896 | Alice Garrett | TV | 5.7 | 58 |
| 1983 | The Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 1983 | A Talent for Murder | Ann Royce McClain | Film | 6.9 | 57 |
| 1983 | The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story | Amanda Fenwick | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1982 | The Last Unicorn | Mommy Fortuna (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 56 |
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | TV | 5.8 | 56 |
| 1982 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Nellie Lovett | Film | 8.2 | 56 |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. | Jessica Fletcher | TV | 7.3 | 54 |
| 1980 | The Mirror Crack'd | Miss Marple | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1979 | The Lady Vanishes | Miss Froy | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | TV | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile | Salome Otterbourne | Film | 7.1 | 52 |
| 1975 | The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow | Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.4 | 49 |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 48 |
| 1973 | Sondheim: A Musical Tribute | Film | — | 47 | |
| 1972 | The Julie Andrews Hour | Self | TV | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 45 |
| 1971 | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Miss Price | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1970 | Something for Everyone | Countess Herthe von Ornstein | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | TV | 7.2 | 41 | |
| 1966 | Mister Buddwing | Gloria | Film | 6.1 | 40 |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Claudia | Film | 6.4 | 39 |
| 1965 | Dear Heart | Phyllis | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1965 | The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | Lady Blystone | Film | 5.7 | 39 |
| 1965 | Harlow | Mama Jean Bello | Film | 5.6 | 39 |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Elfie van Donck | TV | 7.1 | 38 |
| 1964 | The World of Henry Orient | Isabel Boyd | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show | Self | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1963 | In the Cool of the Day | Sybil Logan | Film | 5.8 | 37 |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self | TV | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | Mrs. Iselin | Film | 7.5 | 36 |
| 1962 | All Fall Down | Annabell Willart | Film | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1961 | Blue Hawaii | Sarah Lee Gates | Film | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1960 | A Breath of Scandal | Countess Lina | Film | 5.6 | 34 |
| 1960 | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Mavis Pruitt | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1959 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Pearl | Film | 6.8 | 33 |
| 1958 | The Long, Hot Summer | Minnie Littlejohn | Film | 7.1 | 32 |
| 1958 | The Reluctant Debutante | Mabel Claremont | Film | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host / Performer | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host/Presenter | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner / Presenter | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Performer | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host / Presenter | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee / Presenter | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter / Winner | TV | — | 30 |
| 1956 | Claire | Vera Wayne | Film | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1956 | Please Murder Me | Myra Leeds | Film | 5.9 | 30 |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Vera Wayne | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1955 | The Court Jester | Princess Gwendolyn | Film | 7.3 | 29 |
| 1955 | A Lawless Street | Tally Dickenson | Film | 5.6 | 29 |
| 1955 | A Life at Stake | Doris Hillman | Film | 5.3 | 29 |
| 1955 | The Purple Mask | Madame Valentine | Film | 5.8 | 29 |
| 1955 | Stage 7 | Vanessa Peters | TV | 7.5 | 29 |
| 1954 | Climax! | Justina Marshall | TV | 3.8 | 28 |
| 1954 | Climax! | Judith Beresford | TV | 3.8 | 28 |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | TV | 7.5 | 28 | |
| 1954 | The George Gobel Show | Self | TV | 7.8 | 28 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 27 |
| 1953 | Revlon Mirror Theatre | TV | — | 27 | |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Daphne Rutledge | TV | 6.8 | 27 |
| 1953 | Remains to Be Seen | Valeska Chauvel | Film | 6.0 | 27 |
| 1952 | Today | Self | TV | 5.6 | 26 |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Joan Robinson | TV | 6.8 | 26 |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Mrs. Hallerton | TV | 6.8 | 26 |
| 1952 | The Ford Television Theatre | Lola Walker | TV | 7.8 | 26 |
| 1952 | Mutiny | Leslie Waldridge | Film | 5.2 | 26 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Penelope Keeling | TV | 8.8 | 25 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dora | TV | 8.8 | 25 |
| 1951 | Kind Lady | Mrs. Edwards | Film | 7.0 | 25 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Florie Vandrop | TV | 7.2 | 25 |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Christine Manson | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Rosie | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest | TV | 7.0 | 24 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Leslie | TV | 6.7 | 24 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Self - Intermission Guest | TV | 6.7 | 24 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Lucy Landor | TV | 6.7 | 24 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Tina Rafferty | TV | 6.7 | 24 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Elsa | TV | 6.7 | 24 |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows | TV | 7.3 | 24 | |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awards | Self | TV | 7.9 | 23 |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah | Semadar | Film | 6.6 | 23 |
| 1949 | The Red Danube | Audrey Quail | Film | 6.7 | 23 |
| 1948 | The Three Musketeers | Queen Ann | Film | 6.8 | 22 |
| 1948 | State of the Union | Kay Thorndyke | Film | 6.8 | 22 |
| 1948 | Tenth Avenue Angel | Susan Bratten | Film | 6.5 | 22 |
| 1947 | The Private Affairs of Bel Ami | Clotilde de Marelle | Film | 6.2 | 21 |
| 1947 | If Winter Comes | Mabel Sabre | Film | 6.7 | 21 |
| 1946 | Till the Clouds Roll By | London Specialty | Film | 5.7 | 20 |
| 1946 | The Harvey Girls | Em | Film | 6.6 | 20 |
| 1946 | The Hoodlum Saint | Dusty Millard | Film | 5.5 | 20 |
| 1945 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Sibyl Vane | Film | 7.1 | 19 |
| 1945 | National Velvet | Edwina Brown | Film | 7.2 | 19 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 18 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 18 |
| 1944 | Gaslight | Nancy | Film | 7.5 | 18 |