Elsa Lanchester profile
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Elsa Lanchester

28th October 1902 Lewisham, London, England, UK Acting

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

77 Movies 35 TV Shows 112 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Arnold 16th November 1973 as Hester
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Willard 30th July 1971 as Henrietta Stiles
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Rascal 11th June 1969 as Mrs. Satterfield
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Heidi 1st October 1955 as Fräulein Rottenmeier
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Rembrandt 6th November 1936 as Hendrickje Stoffels
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Ashes 31st December 1930 as Girl
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Comets 19th September 1930 as Herself
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Daydreams 1st May 1928 as Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
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Mannix 16th September 1967 as Edna Barrington