Elsa Lanchester
Age: 84 | From: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1902-10-28 16:18:02
Death: 1986-12-26 16:18:02
Aliases: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 43
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was an English-American character actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. 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
Most Famous Work
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Miss Mabel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Aggie McGregor
Studio One
(1948) Jenny Pratt
Burke's Law
(1963) Bessie Mopes
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
Adventures in Paradise
(1959) Miss Creshaw
Witness for the Prosecution
(1957) Miss Plimsoll
The Bride of Frankenstein
(1935) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's BrideActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2000 | Herself | |
| 1998 | (archive footage) | |
| 1993 | Self | |
| 1992 | The Monster's Bride | |
| 1991 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate | |
| 1984 | N/A | |
| 1983 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1980 | Sophie | |
| 1976 | Jessica Marbles | |
| 1973 | Hester | |
| Julia Hawthorn | ||
| 1971 | Henrietta Stiles | |
| 1970 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1969 | Gertrude Caruso | |
| Mrs. Formby | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Wochuk | ||
| Miss Dennison | ||
| Mrs. Satterfield | ||
| 1968 | N/A | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Emily Stowecroft | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Madame Neherina | ||
| 1965 | Mrs. MacDougall | |
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | Katie Nanna | |
| Aunt Wendy | ||
| Chambermaid | ||
| 1963 | Mrs. Ormsby | |
| Bessie Mopes | ||
| 1962 | Self | |
| Aggie McGregor | ||
| Noah's wife | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1959 | Miss Creshaw | |
| 1958 | Aunt Queenie Holroyd | |
| 1957 | Miss Plimsoll | |
| 1956 | Self | |
| 1955 | Red Queen | |
| N/A | ||
| Widow Sonder | ||
| 1954 | The Bearded Lady | |
| Mrs. Formby | ||
| Lida O'Reilly | ||
| 1953 | Thelma | |
| Hanna Winters | ||
| 1952 | Megaera | |
| Madame Magloire | ||
| Mathilda Coffey | ||
| 1951 | Red Queen | |
| Edna Grundy | ||
| Betsey Monk, the Widow | ||
| 1950 | Countess | |
| Emily | ||
| Miss Mabel | ||
| Self | ||
| Dr. Crutcher | ||
| Mrs. Smerrling | ||
| Madame Brizar | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Maria | |
| Martha | ||
| Amelia Potts | ||
| 1948 | Jenny Pratt | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Louise Patterson | ||
| 1947 | Matilda | |
| Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana | ||
| 1946 | Miss Keith | |
| Mrs. Oates | ||
| 1944 | Ella Muggins | |
| 1943 | Mrs. Helen Carraclough | |
| Emily "Emmy" Ffinch | ||
| Mamie | ||
| 1942 | Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith | |
| Bristol Isabel | ||
| 1941 | Emily Creed | |
| 1940 | Self | |
| 1938 | Martha Jones | |
| 1936 | Hendrickje Stoffels | |
| 1935 | Miss Shepperton | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Bride | ||
| Madame d'Annard | ||
| Clickett | ||
| 1933 | Anne of Cleves | |
| 1931 | Cora Melville | |
| Thérèse | ||
| Thompson | ||
| Matilde | ||
| 1930 | N/A | |
| Herself | ||
| 1928 | Elsa | |
| Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence | ||
| Elsa | ||
| Lady | ||
| 1927 | Kitty | |
| 1924 | Beatrice de Carolle | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
