Murder, She Wrote: The Dead File
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Saturday, January 31 on 5SELECT (46)
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The Dead File
Season 9, Episode 5
Jessica is infuriated when a New York satirist draws a caricature of her, but she is robbed of the chance of an apology when the man is murdered. Patrick Macnee guest stars
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Cast & Crew
Angela Lansbury
(Actor)
.. Jessica Fletcher
Patrick Macnee
(Actor)
.. Dayton Whiting
Harvey Fierstein
(Actor)
.. Stan Hatter
Jon Polito
(Actor)
.. Peter DiMartini
Kris Kamm
(Actor)
.. Teddy Graves
Anthony Shaw
(Director)
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Did You Know..
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.
Patrick Macnee
(Actor)
.. Dayton Whiting
Born:
February 06, 1922
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing John Steed in The Avengers.
Early-life:
Born Daniel Patrick Macnee on February 6, 1922, in London. His father was a successful racehorse trainer who gambled away his fortune and emigrated to India. His mother then divorced her husband and moved in with her lesbian lover in Wiltshire. Macnee attended Summer Fields prep school before enrolling at Eton. He made his film debut in 1938's Pygmalion, but his acting career was curtailed by a spell in the Navy during the Second World War.
Career:
On his return from service, Macnee studied at the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. Small roles in several films followed but, frustrated at the lack of opportunity in Britain, he emigrated to Canada, then moved to the US. He appeared in numerous TV plays and films before returning to the UK in 1959. Producing Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years brought him to the attention of TV bosses who, to his surprise, offered him the role of John Steed in The Avengers in 1961. He stayed with the popular series until it ended in 1969, but returned to the role in The New Avengers in 1976. Macnee also appeared in such movies as A View to a Kill, This Is Spinal Tap and The Sea Wolves. He died on June 25, 2015.
Quote:
"I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long."
Trivia:
Macnee became a US citizen in 1959.
Harvey Fierstein
(Actor)
.. Stan Hatter
Jon Polito
(Actor)
.. Peter DiMartini
Kris Kamm
(Actor)
.. Teddy Graves
Anthony Shaw
(Director)
