Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in 'Sweeney Todd' and crime busters in episodes of TV's 'Murder, She Wrote.'
FILE – Actors Angela Lansbury, left, and Len Cariou, right, who starred in the musical “Sweeney Todd” appear with their replacements Dorothy Loudon, second left, and George Hearn at a New York restaurant, prior to their final performance on March 3, 1980. Lansbury died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 11. She was 96. to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams
They made a point of speaking on their birthdays — Oct. 16 for Lansbury, Sept. 30 for Cariou — and on each anniversary of the play’s opening night, Cariou said Wednesday, a day after“She was a great artist,” Cariou said. “I know she’s with Peter now, her husband, who I think she missed terribly. She said to me on her last birthday, a year ago, ‘It’s just silly being this old.'”
“There is no one with whom I’d rather run a cutthroat business with,” Cariou said in accepting the award for Lansbury. “We made it our business to get to know one another,” he said, lunching together during rehearsal so we could “establish some kind of shorthand and get to know one another better, just as people.”