Angela Lansbury Dies At 96
The stage, film, and television legend was five days shy of her 97th birthday. She died peacefully in her sleep in Los Angeles this morning, her family just announced. Back when people watched network television in the 80’s and 90’s, Murder, She Wrote was must-see TV on CBS for a staggering 12 seasons (shows today can barely last one season), and I remember her most for that, as well as her role in 1991’s Beauty And The Beast. Via NBC:
“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.”
Full obit here.
Lansbury singing “Beauty And The Beast,” which won the Oscar for Best Song in 1992:
