Moyna moved the family to Hollywood, hoping to find acting work. Failing that, she and Angela wrapped packages and sold clothing at a department store.

“My mother, Moyna Macgill, is standing next to Peter, and his father, Walter Pullen, is next to me. Because my father had died in 1934 when I was 9, my brother Edgar gave me away.” ...

Her famous actress mother, Moyna Macgill, was the daughter of politician and timber merchant Edgar Lansbury. It is not surprising that both Angela and Bruce took up the arts, given their creative and ...

Edgar George Lansbury was born in London on Jan. 12, 1930. His mother, Moyna Macgill, was a Belfast-born stage actress, and his father, also Edgar, was a politician and timber merchant.

Edgar George Lansbury was born in London on Jan. 12, 1930. His mother, Moyna Macgill, was a Belfast-born stage actress, and his father, also Edgar, was a politician and timber merchant.

The Tony Awards, founded by the American Theatre Wing, began in 1947. Named for actor, producer and director Antoinette Perry, the first Tonys ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on April ...

Interestingly enough, Lansbury’s mother, the Irish actress Moyna Macgill, made a film on the Mendocino coast long before Lansbury set foot here. Macgill appeared as Lady Godolphin in “Frenchman’s ...

American actress Angela Lansbury has died. In this feature, originally published in 2016, Marjorie Brennan chatted to people who helped the actress settle in Cork, after she decided to move to ...

It was not a happy arrangement. At the outbreak of war, Moyna decamped with her children to New York, and Angela continued her training for two more years at the Feagin school.

Not only was her mother Moyna Macgill born in Belfast, but Lansbury and her family fled to Ireland to help her children Anthony and Deidre escape the grasp of Charles Manson and drugs in the 1970s.