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A three time Oscar nominee, five times Tony Award winner, an 18 time Emmy nominee, a 15 time Golden Globe nominee and winner and a Grammy nominee, Angela Lansbury had a remarkable career. Best known for playing the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in 12 seasons of CBS's 'Murder She Wrote,' she worked with legendary directors like George Cukor, Frank Capra, Cecil B De Mille, Edward Dmytryk, Martin Ritt, John Frankenheimer and Neil Jordan. She also shared the screen with Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, Tony Curtis, Danny Kaye, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Peter Sellers, Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Stephen Rea, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Jim Carrey and Emily Blunt. Born in Regent's Park in London in 1925, her mother was the Belfast-born West End actress Moyna Magill and her father wasthe English timber merchant Edgar Lansbury who was a C

  Among the avalanche of tributes to Robbie Coltrane after the announcement of his death, one leapt out. The English actor Daniel Mays perfectly captured on Twitter the Scotsman's incredible skill as a big and small screen actor - referring to his best TV role in Jimmy McGovern's 'Cracker'. "Incredibly sad to hear about the great Robbie Coltrane," Mays responded.  "Knock-out in so many performances, 'Harry Potter', 'National Treasure', but it was Fitz in TV classic 'Cracker: that stands out for me.  "No one else could’ve played that role the way he did. Lead acting at it’s finest." ©ITV Coltrane charmed and impressed audiences in a screen career spanning five decades. Born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire in 1950, his father was a GP who also served as a forensic surgeon for the police and his mum was a piano teacher. He was raised with two sisters - one older and one younger and was educated at Belm