Elsa Lanchester
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
113
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
Mannix
Mannix
The Merv Griffin Show
Robert Montgomery Presents
I Love Lucy
Studio One
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Dick Cavett Show
Ben Casey
Here's Lucy
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
The Ed Sullivan Show
Night Gallery
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Adventures in Paradise
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Ford Television Theatre
Then Came Bronson
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Mary Poppins
Witness for the Prosecution
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Murder by Death
Nanny and the Professor
Blackbeard's Ghost
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Lassie Come Home
The Love Habit
The Bill Cosby Show
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Willard
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
The Spiral Staircase
The Big Clock
The Razor's Edge
Universal Horror
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Tales of Manhattan
The Ghost Goes West
Bride of Frankenstein
Les Miserables
The American Nightmare
Arnold
Northwest Outpost
Vessel of Wrath
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Frenchie
Thumbs Up
Star Time
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Come to the Stable
My Dog, the Thief
The Secret Garden
Rembrandt
Noah and the Flood
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Forever and a Day
The John Forsythe Show
The Inspector General
The Bishop's Wife
Dreamboat
Terror in the Wax Museum
Follow the Sun
Heidi
The Flood
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Rascal
The Wonderful World of Disney
Passport to Destiny
The Constant Nymph
The Officers' Mess
Mystery Street
Buccaneer's Girl
Pajama Party
Androcles and the Lion
That Darn Cat!
Ashes
Bell, Book and Candle
Alice in Wonderland
David Copperfield
General Electric Theater
The Ed Wynn Show
One of the Best
Die Laughing
Honeymoon Hotel
Easy Come, Easy Go
Ladies in Retirement
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Daydreams
Hell's Half Acre
In Name Only
The Glass Slipper
3 Ring Circus
Me, Natalie
The Petty Girl
Naughty Marietta
Potiphar's Wife
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Tonic
Commercial Entertainment Product
Comets
Blue Bottles
The Stronger Sex
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
