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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Acting
Movie
Mary Poppins
as Katie Nanna
1964
Movie
Witness for the Prosecution
as Miss Plimsoll
1957
Movie
Bride of Frankenstein
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
1935
Movie
Murder by Death
as Jessica Marbles
1976
Movie
The Bishop's Wife
as Matilda
1947
Movie
The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Oates
1946
Movie
Bell, Book and Candle
as Aunt Queenie Holroyd
1958
TV
I Love Lucy
as Edna Grundy
1951
Movie
That Darn Cat!
as Mrs. MacDougall
1965
Movie
The Big Clock
as Louise Patterson
1948
Movie
Blackbeard's Ghost
as Emily Stowecroft
1968
Movie
Lassie Come Home
as Mrs. Helen Carraclough
1943
Movie
Willard
as Henrietta Stiles
1971
TV
Night Gallery
1970
Movie
The Razor's Edge
as Miss Keith
1946
Movie
The Private Life of Henry VIII
as Anne of Cleves
1933
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Aggie McGregor
1962
Movie
David Copperfield
as Clickett
1935
TV
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Dr. Agnes Dabree
1964
Movie
Mystery Street
as Mrs. Smerrling
1950
Movie
The Inspector General
as Maria
1949
TV
Mannix
as Portia Penhaven
1967
TV
Mannix
as Edna Barrington
1967