Angela Lansbury’s Husband: Meet The Late Actress’ Peter Shaw, Who Predeceased Her

• Angela Lansbury is known for her decades-spanning career, including her 12-year tally connected “Murder, She Wrote” successful the 1980s and 1990s
• Angela was joined doubly successful her life, for 1 twelvemonth to Richard Cromwell, and 53 years to Peter Shaw
• She believed she and Peter had the “perfect relationship”

Dame Angela Lansbury‘s award-winning acting vocation that spanned 8 decades came to an extremity when she died on Oct. 11, 2022 astatine the property of 96. The histrion near behind her 3 children: Anthony, Deirdre, and stepson David, and 3 grandchildren: Peter, Katherine, and Ian, according to NBC News. She was besides survived by her 5 great-grandchildren and her brother, shaper Edgar Lansbury. Her hubby of 53 years and the begetter to her children, Peter Shaw, preceded her decease by 19 years.

Angela and Peter walked down the aisle successful 1949 conscionable 3 years aft Angela’s divorcement from Richard Cromwell, who she joined successful 1945 erstwhile she was 19 and helium was 34. He ended up leaving her a twelvemonth aboriginal due to the fact that helium realized helium was gay. “I had known truthful galore cheery radical successful Hollywood. It conscionable had ne'er truly sunk successful … I was successful emotion with love,” Angela erstwhile recalled of the turbulent clip successful her idiosyncratic life, per BANG Showbiz.

Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw pictured successful 1949, the twelvemonth they were wed (Photo: MGM/Kobal/Shutterstock)

“When it turned retired that helium was [gay], I ne'er blamed him for it successful immoderate way,” she continued. “And I realized that I had conscionable made an excruciating error, you know, an affectional mistake … But I don’t regret it due to the fact that I learned truthful overmuch during … the abbreviated clip that we were together.”

Although her archetypal matrimony went wrong, she and Peter stuck by each other’s broadside until helium took his past breath. Read connected to larn astir Peter and his matrimony to Angela below.

Peter Shaw’s Life

Peter was calved successful Reading, England arsenic Peter Pullen successful 1918. He served successful the British service during World War II, according to the Los Angeles Times. After helium was discharged, helium decided to prosecute acting and was signed by MGM Studios. He aboriginal became an cause and represented immoderate of the apical names successful Tinseltown, specified arsenic Robert Mitchum, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. Peter and Angela worked unneurotic connected Murder, She Wrote, which helium coproduced done his and his sons’ accumulation company, Corymore Productions. They founded the institution successful 1987 aft Peter had served arsenic the adjunct caput of accumulation astatine MGM.

He died connected Jan. 29, 2003 owed to congestive bosom failure.

Angela Lansbury and her hubby Peter Shaw airs successful 1991 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Angela Thinks She And Peter Had A ‘Perfect’ Union

“We had the cleanable relationship. Not galore radical tin accidental that,” a heartbroken Angela told the Daily Mail pursuing Peter’s death. “He was everything to me: we were partners astatine enactment arsenic good arsenic hubby and woman and lovers. I don’t cognize however we had specified a long marriage, but the elemental information was that we were devoted to 1 another.”

“We made each decisions jointly and we helped and supported each different constantly. My vocation was important to maine but our children, Anthony and Deidre, ever came first,” she added successful a 2014 interrogation with the publication.

Following Peter’s death, Angela told Closer Weekly that she utilized enactment to assistance with her grief. “Suddenly it happens, and that peculiar idiosyncratic is gone,” she explained. “I said, ‘All right, capable already. Get disconnected your ass and commencement moving forward.’” Some of her biggest films pursuing Peter’s decease see 2005’s Nanny McPhee and 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns.