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The star of ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ died on Tuesday leaving behind a remarkably varied legacy from her 80-year career in Hollywood, writes Kevin E G Perry

Versatile actor with a long career on stage and screen, best known as the TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote

LOS ANGELES — Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actress who conquered Broadway in the glamorous roles movie studios never gave her and captured television viewers as the star of the hit series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.

Personalities of the stage, television and film scenes came together Tuesday to celebrate the life of acting legend Angela Lansbury, who died Tuesday. The beloved “Murder, She Wrote” and five-time Tony Award winner died “peacefully in her sleep” at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.

Angela Lansbury, who achieved widespread fame as the star of the long-running CBS series “Murder, She Wrote” and was the recipient of six Tony Awards (including an honorary one bestowed this year) was never to be confused with any other performer. A royal in exile, astringently self-possessed, her syllables arrayed…

Well-known faces in showbusiness have paid tribute to Dame Angela Lansbury, who has died aged 96, describing her as "incredible", and paying homage to the wide variety of her career

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The actor, best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV show, “died peacefully in her sleep” on Tuesday

Lansbury died on Tuesday, at the age of 96