Elsa Lanchester

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

123

Movies

Born: October 28, 1902 – December 26, 1986
From: Lewisham, London, England, UK

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

Works

79 films

Mary Poppins

19647.5

Witness for the Prosecution

19578.2

Bride of Frankenstein

19357.5

Murder by Death

19767.1

That Darn Cat!

19656.6

The Razor's Edge

19466.9

Blackbeard's Ghost

19686.7

The Bishop's Wife

19477.1

Lassie Come Home

19436.7

David Copperfield

19356.7

Bell, Book and Candle

19586.6

The Big Clock

19487.3

Willard

19716.1

Me, Natalie

19695.6

Naughty Marietta

19355.5

The Secret Garden

19497.1

Easy Come, Easy Go

19676.0

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

20185.9

The Inspector General

19496.6

Blue Bottles

19287.3

Mystery Street

19506.8

The Spiral Staircase

19467.0

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

19916.3

Androcles and the Lion

19525.9

In Name Only

19697.0

3 Ring Circus

19545.6

Frenchie

19506.0

The Private Life of Henry VIII

19336.4

Pajama Party

19644.8

Buccaneer's Girl

19505.8

The Girls of Pleasure Island

19535.8

Les Miserables

19525.5

The Stronger Sex

193110.0

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

19427.2

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Dreamboat

19526.1

Potiphar's Wife

19318.0

Rembrandt

19366.8

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

19406.3

Tales of Manhattan

19426.4

Rascal

19696.0

The Tonic

19288.5

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

20079.0

Commercial Entertainment Product

19928.7

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

The American Nightmare

20006.8

The Glass Slipper

19556.3

Terror in the Wax Museum

19735.2

Come to the Stable

19496.7

Forever and a Day

19437.5

Ashes

193010.0

The Ghost Goes West

19356.7

Mondo Hollywood

19676.7

Charmed Lives: A Family Romance

2028

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

20147.5

Arnold

19735.3

Ladies in Retirement

19416.5

Hell's Half Acre

19545.5

Die Laughing

19804.6

My Dog, the Thief

19696.8

Universal Horror

19987.1

Vessel of Wrath

19386.9

Honeymoon Hotel

19644.6

The Petty Girl

19504.3

Alice in Wonderland

19555.2

Passport to Destiny

19445.3

Comets

19307.0

Heidi

1955

Noah and the Flood

1962

The Constant Nymph

192810.0

The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama

1924

Daydreams

19289.0

Thumbs Up

19437.0

Northwest Outpost

19478.0

The Officers' Mess

19319.0

Mr. Smith Wakes Up

1929

Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers

19937.0

One of the Best

19279.0

The Love Habit

19318.0