Elsa Lanchester
Acting
🎂 1902-10-28
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (October 28, 1902 – December 26, 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television and former dancer. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Laughton's success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. Her role as the bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), brought her recognition, and came to be one of the roles most closely associated with her throughout her life. Lanchester played supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come to the Stable (1949) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the last of twelve films in which she appeared with Laughton. Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester resumed her career with appearances in such Disney films as Mary Poppins (1964), That Darn Cat! (1965) and Blackbeard's Ghost (1968). The horror film, Willard, (1971) was highly successful and one of her last roles was in Murder By Death (1976). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Lanchester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Cast credits(113)
Self
1962
1950
Portia Penhaven
1967
Edna Barrington
1967
Self - Presenter
1944
Jenny Pratt
1948
Edna Grundy
1951
1970
Mrs. Ormsby
1963
Bessie Mopes
1963
1961
Self
1956
Aggie McGregor
1962
Mumsie Westcott
1968
1955
Self
1948
Self
1962
Self - Guest
1968
Rosie Bowker
1952
Miss Creshaw
1959
Emily
1950
Miss Mabel
1950
Katie Nanna
1964
Dr. Agnes Dabree
1964
Mother Goose
1958
Miss Plimsoll
1957
1988
Aunt Henrietta
1970
Aunt Queenie Holroyd
1958
Self
1957
Mrs. Wochuk
1969
Hattie Calter
1969
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
1935
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Mrs. Formby
1954
Jessica Marbles
1976
Miss Keith
1946
Emily Stowecroft
1968
Matilda
1947
Self (archive footage)
2018
Julia Hawthorn
1973
(archive footage)
1998
Henrietta Stiles
1971
Red Queen
1951
Mathilda Coffey
1952
Mrs. MacDougall
1965
Hendrickje Stoffels
1936
Madame Magloire
1952
Gertrude Caruso
1969
Aunt Wendy
1964
Hanna Winters
1953
Mrs. Helen Carraclough
1943
Self
1940
Noah's Wife
1962
Madame Neherina
1967
Martha
1949
Betsey Monk, the Widow
1951
Maria
1949
Amelia Potts
1949
Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith
1942
Martha Jones
1938
Countess
1950
Anne of Cleves
1933
Miss Dennison
1969
Mrs. Smerrling
1950
Bristol Isabel
1942
Madame Brizar
1950
Self (archive footage)
2007
Widow Sonder
1955
Lida O'Reilly
1954
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
1991
Clickett
1935
Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
1943
Mrs. Formby
1969
Hester
1973
Louise Patterson
1948
Madame d'Annard
1935
Thelma
1953
Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
2014
Margaret Culver
1965
Self
2000
Mrs. Oates
1946
Megaera
1952
Mrs. Satterfield
1969
Miss Shepperton
1935
Chambermaid
1964
Dr. Crutcher
1950
Self
1950
1961
Mamie
1943
Lady
1928
Ella Muggins
1944
Sophie
1980
The Bearded Lady
1954
Matilde
1931
Red Queen
1955
Self (archive footage)
2009
Emily Creed
1941
Thérèse
1931
Thompson
1931
Self
1949
Elsa
1928
Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
1947
Noah's wife
1962
Girl
1930
Kitty
1927
Herself
1930
Cora Melville
1931
Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
1928
Elsa
1928
Self
1993
The Monster's Bride
1992
Beatrice de Carolle
1924