Elsa Lanchester
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
114
Gender
Female
Birthday
1902-10-28
Day of death
1986-12-26 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Lewisham, London, England, UK
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
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Mannix
Mannix
Golden Globe Awards
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Merv Griffin Show
I Love Lucy
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Dick Cavett Show
Studio One
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
Ben Casey
David Copperfield
Night Gallery
The Ed Sullivan Show
Adventures in Paradise
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Mary Poppins
Here's Lucy
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The Ford Television Theatre
Then Came Bronson
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Heidi
Witness for the Prosecution
The Bishop's Wife
Willard
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Thumbs Up
The Secret Garden
Bride of Frankenstein
Dreamboat
Honeymoon Hotel
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Rembrandt
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Northwest Outpost
Nanny and the Professor
Rascal
Les Miserables
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
The Bill Cosby Show
Pajama Party
The Constant Nymph
Terror in the Wax Museum
Frenchie
Arnold
Daydreams
Murder by Death
Me, Natalie
Bell, Book and Candle
The Razor's Edge
That Darn Cat!
Blackbeard's Ghost
The American Nightmare
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Spiral Staircase
The Inspector General
Lassie Come Home
Ashes
Mystery Street
Naughty Marietta
Androcles and the Lion
Easy Come, Easy Go
Ladies in Retirement
Die Laughing
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Forever and a Day
Follow the Sun
Come to the Stable
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
The Love Habit
The John Forsythe Show
Alice in Wonderland
Universal Horror
The Big Clock
The Officers' Mess
Buccaneer's Girl
Tales of Manhattan
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Passport to Destiny
My Dog, the Thief
Vessel of Wrath
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
One of the Best
The Glass Slipper
Star Time
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
The Ed Wynn Show
General Electric Theater
The Petty Girl
In Name Only
3 Ring Circus
Hell's Half Acre
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Comets
Potiphar's Wife
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The Ghost Goes West
Commercial Entertainment Product
The Stronger Sex
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
The Tonic
The Flood
Blue Bottles
Noah and the Flood
