Elsa Lanchester
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1902-10-28 (84 years old)
Deathday
1986-12-26
Place of Birth
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Also known As
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester
埃尔莎·兰彻斯特
Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan
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 pla...
Acting
1935
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
1964
as Katie Nanna
1943
as Mrs. Helen Carraclough
1958
as Aunt Queenie Holroyd
1976
as Jessica Marbles
1946
as Mrs. Oates
1942
as Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith
1949
as Maria
1954
as Lida O'Reilly
1971
as Henrietta Stiles
1941
as Emily Creed
1957
as Miss Plimsoll
1933
as Anne of Cleves
1949
as Martha
1942
as Bristol Isabel
1935
as Madame d'Annard
1968
as Emily Stowecroft
1969
as Mrs. Formby
1950
as Madame Brizar
1967
as Madame Neherina
1952
as Megaera
1947
as Matilda
1936
as Hendrickje Stoffels
1948
as Louise Patterson
1950
as Mrs. Smerrling
1969
as Mrs. Satterfield
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
as Aunt Wendy
1946
as Miss Keith
2000
as Self
1952
as Mathilda Coffey
1964
as Chambermaid
1953
as Thelma
1949
as Amelia Potts
1927
as Kitty
1950
as Dr. Crutcher
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1947
as Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
1935
as Miss Shepperton
1952
as Madame Magloire
1991
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
1973
as Hester
1938
as Martha Jones
1969
as Miss Dennison
1955
as Widow Sonder
1973
as Julia Hawthorn
1944
as Ella Muggins
1950
as Countess
1969
as Gertrude Caruso
2014
as Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
1935
as Clickett
1980
as Sophie
1928
as Elsa
1931
as Matilde
1930
1943
as Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
1928
as Lady
1955
as Red Queen
1943
as Mamie
1954
as The Bearded Lady
1928
as Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
1928
as Elsa
1930
as Herself
1965
as Mrs. MacDougall
1931
as Thérèse
1931
as Thompson
1931
as Cora Melville
1940
1992
as The Monster's Bride
2009
as Self (archive footage)
1924
as Beatrice de Carolle
1993
1962
as Noah's wife
2007
as Self (archive footage)
1998
as (archive footage)
1962
as Noah's Wife
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