Edgar Lansbury (producer)

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Edgar George McIldowie Lansbury (12 January 1930 – 2 May 2024) was a British-American theatre, film, and television producer.

Background

Born in London, Lansbury is the son of Belfast-born actress Moyna Macgill and Edgar Lansbury, a British politician and businessman and the grandson of future Labour Party leader George Lansbury. He was the younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury and the twin brother of television producer Bruce Lansbury; both brothers became U.S. citizens in 1954.^{[citation needed]}

Edgar Lansbury died at his home in Manhattan on 2 May 2024, at the age of 94.^[1]

Career

Lansbury's first

Off-Broadway Lansbury has produced, among other productions, revivals of Arms and the Man, Waiting for Godot, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and the comedy As Bees In Honey Drown, which earned him a second Drama Desk Award nomination.^{[citation needed]}

Lansbury was the recipient of the John Houseman Award, presented to him by The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater.^[4]

Lansbury's film credits include

External links

• Edgar Lansbury at the Internet Broadway Database
• Edgar Lansbury at the Lortel Archives
• Edgar Lansbury at
  IMDb
• Edgar Lansbury discography at Discogs