Murder, She Wrote - No Laughing Murder - 3:00 pm Saturday, May 9 on 5SELECT

Angela Lansbury (Actor) .. Jessica Fletcher

Born: October 16, 1925 in London

Best Known For: Murder, She Wrote.

Early-life: Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London on October 16, 1925. Her mother was Irish actress Moyna MacGill; her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a timber merchant and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She has younger, twin brothers, who became theatre producers. Her cousin was legendary animator Oliver Postgate. Angela's father died in 1934, and her mother became involved with a former soldier who was strict with the children. Her mother eventually took her children to Hollywood when she landed a part in a touring Noel Coward play.

Career: While working in a department store in LA, Lansbury met a casting director through her mother. He offered her a role in the 1944 film Gaslight; she was just 18, but it landed her an Oscar nomination. Roles in National Velvet, Blue Hawaii and Bedknobs and Broomsticks followed. She gained further Academy Award nominations for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate. She's also worked extensively on stage, winning a record five Tony Awards. But it was playing Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, that turned her into a household name. More recently, Lansbury has appeared in Nanny McPhee and Mr Popper's Penguins.

Quote: 'I'm never left behind. I'm the bionic woman.'

Trivia: Arguably her most offbeat work is a fitness book - Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves - My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being.

George Clooney (Actor) .. Kip Howard

Born: May 06, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky

Best Known For: His good looks.

Early-life: George Timothy Clooney was born into a showbusiness family on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky. His father is broadcaster Nick Clooney, his aunt was singer Rosemary Clooney. He appeared on his father's TV shows as a child, but wanted to be a baseball player. After a trial with the Cincinatti Reds came to nothing, he followed his father into journalism. Clooney later decided he didn't want to compete with his dad and, on the advice of his cousin Miguel Ferrer, turned to acting.

Career: Clooney lived with his aunt Rosemary while attending auditions, working as her chauffeur. His TV debut was 1984's Riptide, following it up with, ironically, a short-lived sitcom called ER. A string of disastrous projects followed before medical drama ER turned him into a major star in 1994. After five years Clooney left to concentrate on films. Projects include O Brother Where Art Thou?, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, Intolerable Cruelty, Out of Sight, Ocean's Eleven, Up in the Air, The American and Gravity. Clooney's directorial debut was Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and he has backed numerous projects as a producer. Away from showbusiness, he is involved with humanitarian causes.

Quote: 'You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.'

Trivia: He won an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category for Syriana, and another as the producer of Argo. He is the only person in Oscar history to be nominated in six different categories.

Pat Crowley (Actor) .. Edie Howard

Buddy Hackett (Actor) .. Murray Gruen

Steve Lawrence (Actor) .. Mack Howard

George Furth (Actor) .. Farley Pressman

Arte Johnson (Actor) .. Phil Rinker

Walter Grauman (Director)

Tom Sawyer (Writer)

Murder, She Wrote: No Laughing Murder

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Saturday, May 9 on 5SELECT (46)

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No Laughing Murder
Season 3, Episode 18

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