October on TCM: Angela Lansbury

For October 2025, Turner Classic Movies has tributes to Julie Andrews, Alfred Hitchcock, Angela Lansbury, Lee Grant and more movie icons.

Tribute to Angela Lansbury Thursdays

British-American actress Angela Lansbury would be 100 this month, and TCM will pay tribute on Thursdays by showing her best known films. Highlights include:

On Thursday, Oct. 16, see her in these classic thrillers: Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). There is an extra showing of The Manchurian Candidate on Saturday, October 11.

TCM Highlights for October

Here are the TCM highlights for October 2025:

Wednesday, Oct. 1: Julie Andrews 90th Birthday
Thursday, Oct. 2: Star of the Month Angela Lansbury
Friday, Oct. 3: Creepy Cinema with Bette and Joan, Strange Occurrences
Saturday, Oct. 4: Two for One with Lin-Manual Miranda

Sunday, Oct. 5: Sundays with Hitchcock
Monday, Oct. 6: Francis the Talking Mule
Tuesday, Oct. 7: Rewinding the 80s
Wednesday, Oct. 8: Directed by Otto Preminger
Thursday, Oct. 9: Star of the Month Angela Lansbury
Friday, Oct. 10: Trapped and in Trouble, Women in Horror
Saturday, Oct. 11: Two for One with Jamie Lee Curtis

Sunday, Oct. 12: Sundays with Hitchcock
Monday, Oct. 13: Battle of the Fake Bands Pt 1
Tuesday, Oct. 14: Late 50s Rom Coms
Wednesday, Oct. 15: Guest Programmer Aziz Ansari
Thursday, Oct. 16: Star of the Month Angela Lansbury
Friday, Oct. 17: Creepy Cinema: Starring Gene Tierney
Saturday, Oct. 18: Two for One with John Carpenter

Sunday, Oct. 19: Sundays with Hitchcock
Monday, Oct. 20: Battle of the Fake Bands Pt 2
Tuesday, Oct. 21: Karloff and Lugosi
Wednesday, Oct. 22: Remembering Connie Francis
Thursday, Oct. 23: Star of the Month Angela Lansbury
Friday, Oct. 24: Creepy Cinema: Hitchcock / DePalma
Saturday, Oct. 25: Two for One with Paul Giamatti

Sunday, Oct. 26: Sundays with Hitchcock
Monday, Oct. 27: Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
Tuesday, Oct. 28: Pre-Code Essentials
Wednesday, Oct. 29: Starring Lee Grant (100th birthday)
Thursday, Oct. 30: Halloween Marathon
Friday, Oct. 31: Halloween Marathon

Related story: Hitchcock Sundays on TCM

Below is a video of October highlights and a retrospective of Angela Lansbury’s career from TCM. Read more at:

TCM Spotlight: Starring Lee Grant

Complete TCM Schedule, Highlights

For TCM schedules and more information see the links below.

About Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American-Irish actress, producer, and comedian. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention.

Lansbury was born into an upper-middle-class family in central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. To escape the Blitz, she moved to the United States in 1940, studying acting in New York City. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952, she began to supplement her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Lansbury was largely seen as a B-list star during this period, but her role in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) received widespread acclaim and is frequently ranked as one of her best performances.

Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide fame as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. She also moved into voice work, contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Anastasia (1997). In the 21st century, she toured in several theatrical productions and appeared in family films such as Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

Among her numerous accolades were six Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Academy Honorary Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.