Cast
Elsa Lanchester
Acting
Cast
Elsa Lanchester
Known for
Acting
Born
1902-10-28
From
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Died
1986-12-26
Also known as Elsa Sullivan Lanchester, Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan
Biography
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
★7.5
MOVIE1964
Mary Poppins
as Katie Nanna
★8.2
MOVIE1957
Witness for the Prosecution
as Miss Plimsoll
★7.5
MOVIE1935
Bride of Frankenstein
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
★6.6
MOVIE1958
Bell, Book and Candle
as Aunt Queenie Holroyd
★7.3
MOVIE1928
Blue Bottles
as Elsa
★7.2
MOVIE1976
Murder by Death
as Jessica Marbles
★7.1
MOVIE1949
The Secret Garden
as Martha
★6.6
MOVIE1965
That Darn Cat!
as Mrs. MacDougall
★5.6
MOVIE1969
Me, Natalie
as Miss Dennison
★7.0
MOVIE1946
The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Oates
★6.7
MOVIE1968
Blackbeard's Ghost
as Emily Stowecroft
★5.9
MOVIE1952
Androcles and the Lion
as Megaera
★6.8
MOVIE2000
The American Nightmare
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1946
The Razor's Edge
as Miss Keith
★7.3
MOVIE1948
The Big Clock
as Louise Patterson
★5.8
MOVIE1950
Buccaneer's Girl
as Madame Brizar
★5.5
MOVIE1952
Les Miserables
as Madame Magloire
★6.7
MOVIE1943
Lassie Come Home
as Mrs. Helen Carraclough
★6.0
MOVIE1967
Easy Come, Easy Go
as Madame Neherina
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1964
Pajama Party
as Aunt Wendy
★5.9
MOVIE2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1931
Potiphar's Wife
as Thérèse
★6.7
MOVIE1935
David Copperfield
as Clickett
★5.2
MOVIE1973
Terror in the Wax Museum
as Julia Hawthorn
★5.6
MOVIE1954
3 Ring Circus
as The Bearded Lady
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Tales of Manhattan
as Mrs. Smith
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Rascal
as Mrs. Satterfield
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Ladies in Retirement
as Emily Creed
★10.0
MOVIE1931
The Stronger Sex
as Thompson
★6.3
MOVIE1955
The Glass Slipper
as Widow Sonder
★6.8
MOVIE1969
My Dog, the Thief
as Mrs. Formby
★5.8
MOVIE1953
The Girls of Pleasure Island
as Thelma
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Naughty Marietta
as Madame d'Annard
★6.1
MOVIE1971
Willard
as Henrietta Stiles
★7.5
MOVIE1943
Forever and a Day
as Mamie
★7.1
MOVIE1998
Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
MOVIE1962
Noah and the Flood
as Noah's wife
★7.0
MOVIE1969
In Name Only
as Gertrude Caruso
★8.5
MOVIE1928
The Tonic
as Elsa
MOVIE2028
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
as Self (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1935
The Ghost Goes West
as Miss Shepperton
★5.3
MOVIE1973
Arnold
as Hester
★6.9
MOVIE1938
Vessel of Wrath
as Martha Jones
★6.7
MOVIE1949
Come to the Stable
as Amelia Potts
★7.1
MOVIE1947
The Bishop's Wife
as Matilda
★10.0
MOVIE1930
Ashes
as Girl
★7.2
MOVIE1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Bristol Isabel
★6.4
MOVIE1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
as Anne of Cleves
★4.9
MOVIE1980
Die Laughing
as Sophie
★6.3
MOVIE1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
★4.3
MOVIE1950
The Petty Girl
as Dr. Crutcher
★6.6
MOVIE1949
The Inspector General
as Maria
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Frenchie
as Countess
★4.6
MOVIE1964
Honeymoon Hotel
as Chambermaid
★6.8
MOVIE1936
Rembrandt
as Hendrickje Stoffels
★8.0
MOVIE1947
Northwest Outpost
as Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1927
One of the Best
as Kitty
★6.7
MOVIE1967
Mondo Hollywood
★8.7
MOVIE1992
Commercial Entertainment Product
as The Monster's Bride
★6.8
MOVIE1950
Mystery Street
as Mrs. Smerrling
MOVIE1929
Mr. Smith Wakes Up
as Their Daughter
★5.2
MOVIE1955
Alice in Wonderland
as Red Queen
★6.1
MOVIE1952
Dreamboat
as Mathilda Coffey
MOVIE1988
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1954
Hell's Half Acre
as Lida O'Reilly
MOVIE1955
Heidi
as Fräulein Rottenmeier
★9.0
MOVIE2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Comets
as Herself
★5.3
MOVIE1944
Passport to Destiny
as Ella Muggins
★10.0
MOVIE1928
The Constant Nymph
as Lady
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Thumbs Up
as Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
MOVIE1924
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
as Beatrice de Carolle
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Daydreams
as Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
★9.0
MOVIE1931
The Officers' Mess
as Cora Melville
★7.5
MOVIE2014
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1931
The Love Habit
as Matilde
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
as Self