Elsa Lanchester
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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I Love Lucy
Edna Grundy
Robert Montgomery Presents
Studio One
Jenny Pratt
Burke's Law
Mrs. Ormsby
Burke's Law
Bessie Mopes
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
Adventures in Paradise
Miss Creshaw
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mrs. Formby
Mannix
Portia Penhaven
Mannix
Edna Barrington
Nanny and the Professor
Aunt Henrietta
Here's Lucy
Mumsie Westcott
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Aggie McGregor
Ben Casey
The Bill Cosby Show
Mrs. Wochuk
Lux Video Theatre
Emily
Lux Video Theatre
Miss Mabel
The Ford Television Theatre
Rosie Bowker
Mary Poppins
Katie Nanna
Night Gallery
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Mother Goose
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The John Forsythe Show
Margaret Culver
Witness for the Prosecution
Miss Plimsoll
Then Came Bronson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Red Queen
Follow the Sun
Bride of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
General Electric Theater
Hanna Winters
Murder by Death
Jessica Marbles
Bell, Book and Candle
Aunt Queenie Holroyd
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Betsey Monk, the Widow
Blackbeard's Ghost
Emily Stowecroft
Willard
Henrietta Stiles
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Oates
Lassie Come Home
Mrs. Helen Carraclough
That Darn Cat!
Mrs. MacDougall
The Secret Garden
Martha
David Copperfield
Clickett
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Inspector General
Maria
Star Time
Self
The Big Clock
Louise Patterson
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Pajama Party
Aunt Wendy
Naughty Marietta
Madame d'Annard
Come to the Stable
Amelia Potts
The Razor's Edge
Miss Keith
Androcles and the Lion
Megaera
Easy Come, Easy Go
Madame Neherina
Tales of Manhattan
Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith
Forever and a Day
Mamie
The Glass Slipper
Widow Sonder
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Anne of Cleves
In Name Only
Gertrude Caruso
Mystery Street
Mrs. Smerrling
Buccaneer's Girl
Madame Brizar
Me, Natalie
Miss Dennison
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Bristol Isabel
Les Miserables
Madame Magloire
The American Nightmare
Self
Frenchie
Countess
Rembrandt
Hendrickje Stoffels
Ladies in Retirement
Emily Creed
The Bishop's Wife
Matilda
Dreamboat
Mathilda Coffey
Die Laughing
Sophie
Honeymoon Hotel
Chambermaid
Passport to Destiny
Ella Muggins
My Dog, the Thief
Mrs. Formby
3 Ring Circus
The Bearded Lady
The Petty Girl
Dr. Crutcher
Universal Horror
(archive footage)
Thumbs Up
Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
Rascal
Mrs. Satterfield
Arnold
Hester
Terror in the Wax Museum
Julia Hawthorn
Alice in Wonderland
Red Queen
Hell's Half Acre
Lida O'Reilly
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Thelma
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Self (archive footage)
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Ghost Goes West
Miss Shepperton
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Constant Nymph
Lady
Vessel of Wrath
Martha Jones
The Flood
Noah's wife
Potiphar's Wife
Thérèse
One of the Best
Kitty
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
Self
Northwest Outpost
Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
The Officers' Mess
Cora Melville
The Love Habit
Matilde
Blue Bottles
Elsa
Daydreams
Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
Commercial Entertainment Product
The Monster's Bride
The Tonic
Elsa
The Stronger Sex
Thompson
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
Beatrice de Carolle
Comets
Herself
Ashes
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self