
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