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 La...
Also Known As
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester, Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan
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Elsa Lanchester's Movies
Mary Poppins
17 Dec 1964
Witness for the Prosecution
17 Dec 1957
Bride of Frankenstein
20 Apr 1935
Murder by Death
23 Jun 1976
The Bishop's Wife
25 Dec 1947
The Spiral Staircase
26 Jan 1946
Bell, Book and Candle
25 Dec 1958
That Darn Cat!
02 Dec 1965
The Big Clock
18 Mar 1948
Blackbeard's Ghost
08 Feb 1968
Lassie Come Home
01 Dec 1943
Willard
30 Jul 1971
The Razor's Edge
19 Nov 1946
The Private Life of Henry VIII
17 Aug 1933
David Copperfield
18 Jan 1935
Mystery Street
23 Jun 1950
The Inspector General
31 Dec 1949
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
27 Jul 2018
Easy Come, Easy Go
28 May 1967
Rembrandt
06 Nov 1936
Elsa Lanchester's TV Shows
I Love Lucy
15 Oct 1951
Night Gallery
16 Dec 1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
01 Oct 1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
20 Sept 1962
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
22 Sept 1964
Mannix
16 Sept 1967
Mannix
16 Sept 1967
The Wonderful World of Disney
27 Oct 1954
Here's Lucy
23 Sept 1968
The Ed Sullivan Show
20 Jun 1948
The Dick Cavett Show
06 Jun 1968
The Bill Cosby Show
14 Sept 1969
Golden Globe Awards
20 Jan 1944
Ben Casey
02 Oct 1961
Studio One
07 Nov 1948
Burke's Law
20 Sept 1963
Burke's Law
20 Sept 1963
The Merv Griffin Show
01 Oct 1962
Nanny and the Professor
21 Jan 1970
Hallmark Hall of Fame
24 Dec 1951