Angela Lansbury, star who put Mendocino on the map for ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ dies at 96

MENDOCINO Co., 10/11/22 — Legendary actor Angela Lansbury died on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 96 according to NBC News.

On-screen, Lansbury was best known for her roles as the voice of the teapot Mrs. Potts in Disney’s 1996 musical film Beauty and the Beast, the evil mother, Mrs. Eleanor Iselin, 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate, and most notable for Mendocino County residents: small-town sleuth Jessica “J.B.” Fletcher in the 12-time Emmy-nominated “Murder, She Wrote.”