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
Mary Poppins
as Katie Nanna
Witness for the Prosecution
as Miss Plimsoll
Bride of Frankenstein
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
Bell, Book and Candle
as Aunt Queenie Holroyd
Me, Natalie
as Miss Dennison
Murder by Death
as Jessica Marbles
Les Miserables
as Madame Magloire
Mondo Hollywood
Mystery Street
as Mrs. Smerrling
The Razor's Edge
as Miss Keith
Arnold
as Hester
Lassie Come Home
as Mrs. Helen Carraclough
Willard
as Henrietta Stiles
Blackbeard's Ghost
as Emily Stowecroft
Dreamboat
as Mathilda Coffey
Honeymoon Hotel
as Chambermaid
That Darn Cat!
as Mrs. MacDougall
The Secret Garden
as Martha
David Copperfield
as Clickett
The Bishop's Wife
as Matilda
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Oates
The Tonic
as Elsa
Frenchie
as Countess
The Private Life of Henry VIII
as Anne of Cleves
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rascal
as Mrs. Satterfield
The Inspector General
as Maria
Commercial Entertainment Product
as The Monster's Bride
Androcles and the Lion
as Megaera
Tales of Manhattan
as Mrs. Smith
Pajama Party
as Aunt Wendy
The American Nightmare
as Self
Buccaneer's Girl
as Madame Brizar
Hell's Half Acre
as Lida O'Reilly
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
The Big Clock
as Louise Patterson
Rembrandt
as Hendrickje Stoffels
3 Ring Circus
as The Bearded Lady
The Glass Slipper
as Widow Sonder
In Name Only
as Gertrude Caruso
Easy Come, Easy Go
as Madame Neherina
My Dog, the Thief
as Mrs. Formby
Passport to Destiny
as Ella Muggins
Terror in the Wax Museum
as Julia Hawthorn
Naughty Marietta
as Madame d'Annard
Alice in Wonderland
as Red Queen
Ladies in Retirement
as Emily Creed
Vessel of Wrath
as Martha Jones
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Bristol Isabel
Potiphar's Wife
as Thérèse
Forever and a Day
as Mamie
Come to the Stable
as Amelia Potts
The Girls of Pleasure Island
as Thelma
Comets
as Herself
Noah and the Flood
as Noah's wife
The Ghost Goes West
as Miss Shepperton
Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
Die Laughing
as Sophie
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
as Beatrice de Carolle
The Petty Girl
as Dr. Crutcher
Ashes
as Girl
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
Northwest Outpost
as Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
as Self
Thumbs Up
as Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
Daydreams
as Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
Heidi
as Fräulein Rottenmeier
The Constant Nymph
as Lady
One of the Best
as Kitty
The Officers' Mess
as Cora Melville
Blue Bottles
as Elsa
The Love Habit
as Matilde
The Stronger Sex
as Thompson