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