Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester

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

Known For: Acting

Born: Lewisham, London, England, UK, 1902-10-28

Died: 1986-12-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1924	The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama	Beatrice de Carolle	0
2	1927	One of the Best	Kitty	0
3	1928	The Constant Nymph	Lady	0
4	1928	Daydreams	Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence	0
5	1928	The Tonic	Elsa	70
6	1928	Blue Bottles	Elsa	65
7	1930	Comets	Herself	0
8	1930	Ashes		0
9	1931	The Love Habit	Matilde	0
10	1931	The Stronger Sex	Thompson	0
11	1931	Potiphar's Wife	Thérèse	0
12	1931	The Officers' Mess	Cora Melville	0
13	1933	The Private Life of Henry VIII	Anne of Cleves	64
14	1935	David Copperfield	Clickett	67
15	1935	Naughty Marietta	Madame d'Annard	52
16	1935	Bride of Frankenstein	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate	75
17	1935	The Ghost Goes West	Miss Shepperton	65
18	1936	Rembrandt	Hendrickje Stoffels	68
19	1938	Vessel of Wrath	Martha Jones	67
20	1940	Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Self	65
21	1941	Ladies in Retirement	Emily Creed	65
22	1942	Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake	Bristol Isabel	72
23	1942	Tales of Manhattan	Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith	63
24	1943	Forever and a Day	Mamie	74
25	1943	Thumbs Up	Emily "Emmy" Ffinch	60
26	1943	Lassie Come Home	Mrs. Helen Carraclough	67
27	1944	Passport to Destiny	Ella Muggins	52
28	1946	The Spiral Staircase	Mrs. Oates	71
29	1946	The Razor's Edge	Miss Keith	69
30	1947	Northwest Outpost	Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana	0
31	1947	The Bishop's Wife	Matilda	70
32	1948	The Big Clock	Louise Patterson	73
33	1949	The Secret Garden	Martha	71
34	1949	Come to the Stable	Amelia Potts	64
35	1949	The Inspector General	Maria	65
36	1950	Buccaneer's Girl	Madame Brizar	56
37	1950	Mystery Street	Mrs. Smerrling	67
38	1950	The Petty Girl	Dr. Crutcher	41
39	1950	Frenchie	Countess	57
40	1952	Dreamboat	Mathilda Coffey	60
41	1952	Les Miserables	Madame Magloire	54
42	1952	Androcles and the Lion	Megaera	58
43	1953	The Girls of Pleasure Island	Thelma	50
44	1954	Hell's Half Acre	Lida O'Reilly	55
45	1954	3 Ring Circus	The Bearded Lady	55
46	1955	The Glass Slipper	Widow Sonder	63
47	1955	Alice in Wonderland	Red Queen	45
48	1957	Witness for the Prosecution	Miss Plimsoll	82
49	1958	Bell, Book and Candle	Aunt Queenie Holroyd	64
50	1962	The Flood	Noah's wife	0
51	1964	Honeymoon Hotel	Chambermaid	46
52	1964	Pajama Party	Aunt Wendy	49
53	1964	Mary Poppins	Katie Nanna	76
54	1965	That Darn Cat!	Mrs. MacDougall	66
55	1967	Easy Come, Easy Go	Madame Neherina	59
56	1968	Blackbeard's Ghost	Emily Stowecroft	67
57	1969	Rascal	Mrs. Satterfield	58
58	1969	Me, Natalie	Miss Dennison	56
59	1969	My Dog, the Thief	Mrs. Formby	67
60	1969	In Name Only	Gertrude Caruso	0
61	1971	Willard	Henrietta Stiles	61
62	1973	Terror in the Wax Museum	Julia Hawthorn	53
63	1973	Arnold	Hester	50
64	1976	Murder by Death	Jessica Marbles	72
65	1980	Die Laughing	Sophie	47
66	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
67	1991	Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate	57
68	1992	Commercial Entertainment Product	The Monster's Bride	85
69	1993	Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers	Self	0
70	1998	Universal Horror	(archive footage)	71
71	2000	The American Nightmare	Self	70
72	2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self (archive footage)	90
73	2009	Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	60
74	2014	Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film	Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)	75
75	2018	Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
3	1948	Studio One	Jenny Pratt	50
4	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
5	1950	Star Time	Self	0
6	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Emily	63
7	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Miss Mabel	63
8	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Betsey Monk, the Widow	73
9	1951	I Love Lucy	Edna Grundy	79
10	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Red Queen	86
11	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Rosie Bowker	73
12	1953	General Electric Theater	Hanna Winters	63
13	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Mrs. Formby	78
14	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
15	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
16	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
17	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Mother Goose	62
18	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Miss Creshaw	57
19	1961	Follow the Sun		60
20	1961	Ben Casey		56
21	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Aggie McGregor	78
22	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
23	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
24	1963	Burke's Law	Mrs. Ormsby	60
25	1963	Burke's Law	Bessie Mopes	60
26	1965	The John Forsythe Show	Margaret Culver	50
27	1967	Mannix	Portia Penhaven	67
28	1967	Mannix	Edna Barrington	67
29	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
30	1968	Here's Lucy	Mumsie Westcott	67
31	1969	The Bill Cosby Show	Mrs. Wochuk	54
32	1969	Then Came Bronson		48
33	1970	Nanny and the Professor	Aunt Henrietta	60
34	1970	Night Gallery		78

Elsa Lanchester

Film

Television