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2024-05-04 20:06:58 UTC
Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed
actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of
The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died. He was 94.
He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The
Hollywood Reporter.
Lansbury also produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway revival of Gypsy that
starred his sister in a Tony-winning turn and worked on other films
including The Wild Party (1975), directed by James Ivory.
The onetime scenic designer also received Drama Desk nominations in 1977
and 1998, respectively, for producing American Buffalo, starring Robert
Duvall in David Mamet‘s Broadway debut, and Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees
in Honey Drown.
In 1967, he produced Coronet Blue, a CBS drama that starred Frank Converse
as an amnesia victim in search of his true identity.
Lansbury’s producing résumé also included the Broadway projects The Only
Game in Town, Doug Henning’s The Magic Show, The Night That Made America
Famous and Lennon; off-Broadway revivals of Waiting for Godot and Long
Day’s Journey Into Night (with a cast that included Robert Ryan, Stacy
Keach and Geraldine Fitzgerald); and the 1977 film Blue Sunshine.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/edgar-lansbury-dead-subject-roses-angela-1235890334/
actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of
The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died. He was 94.
He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The
Hollywood Reporter.
Lansbury also produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway revival of Gypsy that
starred his sister in a Tony-winning turn and worked on other films
including The Wild Party (1975), directed by James Ivory.
The onetime scenic designer also received Drama Desk nominations in 1977
and 1998, respectively, for producing American Buffalo, starring Robert
Duvall in David Mamet‘s Broadway debut, and Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees
in Honey Drown.
In 1967, he produced Coronet Blue, a CBS drama that starred Frank Converse
as an amnesia victim in search of his true identity.
Lansbury’s producing résumé also included the Broadway projects The Only
Game in Town, Doug Henning’s The Magic Show, The Night That Made America
Famous and Lennon; off-Broadway revivals of Waiting for Godot and Long
Day’s Journey Into Night (with a cast that included Robert Ryan, Stacy
Keach and Geraldine Fitzgerald); and the 1977 film Blue Sunshine.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/edgar-lansbury-dead-subject-roses-angela-1235890334/