{{Short description|English TV producer and screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Bruce Lansbury | birth_name = William Bruce Mageean Lansbury | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|1|12|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|2|13|1930|1|12|df=y}} | death_place = La Quinta, California, US | occupation = {{hlist|Television producer|television writer|screenwriter}} | years_active = 1953–1996; 2003 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Mary Hassalevris|1951|1996|reason=d.}} * {{marriage|Gail England|1998|<!--Year omitted per Template:Marriage instructions-->}} }} | children = 2 | citizenship = United Kingdom<br/>United States | known_for = Producing:<br />''The Wild Wild West'',<br />''Mission: Impossible'',<br />''Knight Rider'',<br />''Murder, She Wrote'' | parents = Edgar Lansbury<br />Moyna Macgill | family = Angela Lansbury (sister)<br />Edgar Lansbury (twin brother)<br />George Lansbury (grandfather)<br />Tamara Ustinov (niece)<br />John Postgate (cousin)<br />Oliver Postgate (cousin)<br />Coral Lansbury (second cousin)<br />Malcolm Turnbull (second cousin once removed) }}

'''William Bruce Mageean Lansbury''' (12 January 1930<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/37/Bruce-Lansbury.html Bruce Lansbury Biography (1930–) ], FilmReference.com, Accessed 13 December 2012.</ref>&nbsp;– 13 February 2017) was a British-American television producer, television writer and screenwriter. His career spanned over 30 years, from the 1960s to the 1990s, and included work on a number of American television series.

==Personal life== Born in London, England, in 1930, Lansbury was a son of English politician and businessman Edgar Lansbury and actress Moyna Macgill, and a grandson of future Labour Party leader George Lansbury. He was the younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury and the twin brother of theatre, film, and television producer Edgar Lansbury. Both brothers became United States citizens in 1954. Lansbury was a graduate of UCLA and married his first wife, Mary Hassalevris, in 1951. The couple had two daughters and remained together until Mary's death in 1996. In 1998, he married Gail England.<ref name=THR/>

==Television==

Lansbury joined CBS in 1959, and was promoted to vice president of programs in 1964.<ref>''Variety,'' Sep 23, 1964 p35.</ref>

From 1966 to 1969, he produced 69 episodes of ''The Wild Wild West'', and produced 38 episodes of ''Mission: Impossible'' from 1969 to 1972.

In 1972 Lansbury joined Paramount Television as "Vice President, Creative Affairs."<ref>''Variety,'' Apr 26, 1972, p33.</ref> ''The Brady Bunch'', ''Happy Days'' and ''The Odd Couple'' were among the series produced under his watch.

He later served as producer of the series ''Wonder Woman'', ''Knight Rider'', ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' and executive producer for the science fiction series ''The Fantastic Journey''.<ref name=NYDN>{{cite news |last=Feldman |first=Kate |title=Bruce Lansbury, Angela's brother and 'Murder, She Wrote' producer, dead at 87 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/bruce-lansbury-angela-brother-tv-producer-dead-87-article-1.2973846 |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=15 February 2017 |access-date=2 July 2020}}</ref> Lansbury also produced of 88 episodes of ''Murder, She Wrote'', which starred his sister Angela, and wrote 15 episodes of the show.<ref name=THR>{{cite news |last=Barnes |first=Mike |title=Bruce Lansbury, TV Producer and Brother of Angela Lansbury, Dies at 87 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bruce-lansbury-dead-tv-producer-angela-lansburys-brother-was-87-976535 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |date=14 February 2017 |access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref>

==Death== Bruce Lansbury died on 13 February 2017, at the age of 87 in La Quinta, California, after battling Alzheimer's disease.<ref name=NYDN/>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0487049}} {{Mission: Impossible}} {{Knight Rider}}

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