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Phil Harris - 59% match to Angela Lansbury

16 January 1904, Linton, Indiana, USA, d. 11 August 1995, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. A highly individual singer, band leader, actor, and comedian, as a boy Harris was taught to play a number of instruments by his father, who was a vaudeville musician. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, he played the drums with Francis Craig’s orchestra before forming his own Dixie Syn Read more

Mike Douglas - 54% match to Angela Lansbury

Michael Delaney Dowd Jnr., 11 August 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 11 August 2006, Miami, Florida, USA. Douglas was the host of an American television talk show in 1966, when he recorded the saccharine ballad, ‘The Men In My Little Girl’s Life’, which reached number 6 on the charts. Douglas started his career as a singer, on a cruise ship outside of Chicago Read more

Julie Andrews - 48% match to Angela Lansbury

Julia Elizabeth Wells, 1 October 1935, Walton-On-Thames, Surrey, England. The former Julia Wells changed her surname to Andrews following her mother’s remarriage to song and dance man Ted Andrews. After singing lessons with Madam Lillian Stiles-Allan, which formed her precise vocal style and typically English delivery, Andrews made her professional debut in her parents& Read more

Bernadette Peters - 22% match to Angela Lansbury

Bernadette Lazzara, 28 February 1948, Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. Often called ‘the finest singing actress since Barbra Streisand’, Bernadette Peters is certainly one of the few leading ladies of the last decade or so whose name on a Broadway marquee can cause box-office queues to form before the show has gone into previews. She was tap-dancin Read more

Patti LuPone - 22% match to Angela Lansbury

21 April 1949, Northport, Long Island, New York, USA. An actress and singer who left several well-known Hollywood and Broadway stars feeling bitterly disappointed and distraught when she won the role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 London production of Sunset Boulevard. LuPone made her stage debut, tap dancing, at the age of four, and later took dancing c Read more

Company - 21% match to Angela Lansbury

Derek Bailey (29 January 1930, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, d. 25 December 2005, London, England) established the Company week/festival in 1977 and, despite all the odds, several changes of venue and the occasional annual hiccup, the unpredictability of its financial success (or otherwise) it remained going, strong and ever-surprising, into the early 00s. Bailey’s ide Read more

Fess Parker - 21% match to Angela Lansbury

16 August 1925, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. An actor and singer, Parker did some stage work before making his film debut in 1952 in Untamed Frontier, a western starring Joseph Cotton and Shelley Winters. Two years later he appeared as the famous Indian scout-legislator-Alamo defender Davy Crockett, in three episodes of the television series Disneyland. The shows were extremely p Read more

Alan Menken - 19% match to Angela Lansbury

Pearl Bailey - 18% match to Angela Lansbury

Pearl Mae Bailey, 29 March 1918, Newport News, Virginia, USA, d. 17 August 1990, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Pearlie Mae, as she was known, was an uninhibited performer, who mumbled her way through some songs and filled others with outrageous asides and sly innuendoes. She entered the world of entertainment as a dancer but later sang in vaudeville, graduating to the New Read more