Acting
Elsa Lanchester
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
Movies with Elsa Lanchester
Mary Poppins
1964
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
Murder by Death
1976
Me, Natalie
1969
The Secret Garden
1949
Pajama Party
1964
The Bishop's Wife
1947
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
Lassie Come Home
1943
The Razor's Edge
1946
The Big Clock
1948
That Darn Cat!
1965
Bell, Book and Candle
1958
Naughty Marietta
1935
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
Mystery Street
1950
Les Miserables
1952
Androcles and the Lion
1952
Willard
1971
The Tonic
1928
The Glass Slipper
1955
In Name Only
1969
The Inspector General
1949
Die Laughing
1980
The Spiral Staircase
1946
David Copperfield
1935
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
Easy Come, Easy Go
1967
Tales of Manhattan
1942
Forever and a Day
1943
The Girls of Pleasure Island
1953
Frenchie
1950
3 Ring Circus
1954
The American Nightmare
2000
Blue Bottles
1928
My Dog, the Thief
1969
Buccaneer's Girl
1950
Terror in the Wax Museum
1973
The Petty Girl
1950
Arnold
1973
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
Universal Horror
1998
Comets
1930
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Come to the Stable
1949
Ashes
1930
Hell's Half Acre
1954
Dreamboat
1952
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
Potiphar's Wife
1931
Vessel of Wrath
1938
Noah and the Flood
1962
Rascal
1969
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
The Ghost Goes West
1935
Alice in Wonderland
1955
Rembrandt
1936
Commercial Entertainment Product
1992
Honeymoon Hotel
1964
Ladies in Retirement
1941
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
The Stronger Sex
1931
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
Heidi
1955
Northwest Outpost
1947
Mr. Smith Wakes Up
1929
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
1924
Thumbs Up
1943
Passport to Destiny
1944
The Constant Nymph
1928
The Officers' Mess
1931
One of the Best
1927
Daydreams
1928
The Love Habit
1931
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
1993
TV Shows with Elsa Lanchester
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Mannix
1967
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Burke's Law
1963
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Ben Casey
1961
I Love Lucy
1951
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Studio One
1948
Night Gallery
1970
Here's Lucy
1968
Omnibus
1952
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Adventures in Paradise
1959
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Startime
1959
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Then Came Bronson
1969
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Follow the Sun
1961
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
General Electric Theater
1953
The John Forsythe Show
1965
The Ed Wynn Show
1949