Elsa Lanchester
Acting
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).
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Filmography of
Elsa Lanchester
Self (archive footage)
... 2018
Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
... 2014
Self (archive footage)
... 2007
... 2000
(archive footage)
... 1998
... 1993
The Monster's Bride
... 1992
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
... 1991
... 1988
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1983
Sophie
... 1980
Jessica Marbles
... 1976
Hester
... 1973
Julia Hawthorn
... 1973
Henrietta Stiles
... 1971
Gertrude Caruso
... 1969
Mrs. Formby
... 1969
Miss Dennison
... 1969
Mrs. Satterfield
... 1969
Emily Stowecroft
... 1968
Madame Neherina
... 1967
Mrs. MacDougall
... 1965
Katie Nanna
... 1964
Aunt Wendy
... 1964
Chambermaid
... 1964
Noah's wife
... 1962
Noah's Wife
... 1962
Aunt Queenie Holroyd
... 1958
Miss Plimsoll
... 1957
Red Queen
... 1955
Fräulein Rottenmeier
... 1955
Widow Sonder
... 1955
The Bearded Lady
... 1954
Lida O'Reilly
... 1954
Thelma
... 1953
Megaera
... 1952
Madame Magloire
... 1952
Mathilda Coffey
... 1952
Countess
... 1950
Dr. Crutcher
... 1950
Mrs. Smerrling
... 1950
Madame Brizar
... 1950
Maria
... 1949
Amelia Potts
... 1949
Martha
... 1949
Louise Patterson
... 1948
Matilda
... 1947
Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
... 1947
Miss Keith
... 1946
Mrs. Oates
... 1946
Ella Muggins
... 1944
Mrs. Helen Carraclough
... 1943
Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
... 1943
Mamie
... 1943
Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith
... 1942
Bristol Isabel
... 1942
Emily Creed
... 1941
... 1940
Martha Jones
... 1938
Hendrickje Stoffels
... 1936
Miss Shepperton
... 1935
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
... 1935
Madame d'Annard
... 1935
Clickett
... 1935
Anne of Cleves
... 1933
Cora Melville
... 1931
Thérèse
... 1931
Thompson
... 1931
Matilde
... 1931
Girl
... 1930
Herself
... 1930
Elsa
... 1928
Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
... 1928
Elsa
... 1928
Lady
... 1928
Kitty
... 1927
Beatrice de Carolle
... 1924