Angela Lansbury right with Victor Mature, in Samson and Delilah
Angela Lansbury (1925 - 2022)
Film Deaths[]
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) [Sibyl Vane]: Commits suicide by drinking poison off-screen after being rejected by Hurd Hatfield. We learn of her death afterwards when George Sanders informs Hurd; her body is not shown.
- Samson and Delilah (1949) [Semadar]: Impaled and pinned to the wall when a soldier throws his spear at her.
- Mutiny (1952) [Leslie]: Shot to death by Patric Knowles just as Angela is about to shoot Mark Stevens.
- A Life at Stake (1954) [Doris Hillman]: Falls to her death, along with Douglass Dumbrille, when Douglass collapses and pushes her out the doorway clifftop after she shoots him.
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [Eleanor Iselin]: Shot with a sniper rifle along with James Gregory, by her son Laurence Harvey at a political convention.
- Death on the Nile (1978) [Salome Otterbourne]: Shot in the forehead by Mia Farrow. The shooting is later shown again from a closer camera angle in the flashback when Peter Ustinov explains who the killer is.
- The Last Unicorn (1982; animated) [Mommy Fortuna]: Attacked then devoured by the harpy Celaeno (voiced by Keenan Wynn), which was freed by the unicorn (voiced by Mia Farrow).
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) [Nellie Lovett]: Thrown into a large oven by George Hearn.
- The Company of Wolves (1984) [Granny]: Decapitated and shattered into fragments like glass, when Micha Bergese hits her, sending her head flying against the fireplace. Her hair is later seen burning by the fireplace as Sarah Patterson discovers her, indicating that Micha presumably devoured Angela.
Gallery[]
Angela Lansbury below, in Death on the Nile
Notable Connections[]
- Daughter of Moyna MacGill
- Ex-Mrs. Richard Cromwell
- Mrs. Peter Shaw (Widowed)
- Mother of Anthony Pullen Shaw
- Aunt of David Lansbury