ELSA LANCHESTER
ACTING
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was an English-American character actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.
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.
- Mary Poppins 1964
- Bell, Book and Candle 1958
- Lassie Come Home 1943
- Murder by Death 1976
- The Spiral Staircase 1946
- Tales of Manhattan 1942
- The Inspector General 1949
- Hell's Half Acre 1954
- Ladies in Retirement 1941
- Willard 1971
- The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933
- Witness for the Prosecution 1957
- The Secret Garden 1949
- Naughty Marietta 1935
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake 1942
- Blackbeard's Ghost 1968
- My Dog the Thief 1969
- Buccaneer's Girl 1950
- Easy Come, Easy Go 1967
- Androcles and the Lion 1952
- Rembrandt 1936
- Mystery Street 1950
- The Bishop's Wife 1947
- The Big Clock 1948
- Rascal 1969
- Pajama Party 1964
- The Razor's Edge 1946
- Dreamboat 1952
- Honeymoon Hotel 1964
- Come to the Stable 1949
- The Girls of Pleasure Island 1953
- Northwest Outpost 1947
- The Petty Girl 1950
- The Ghost Goes West 1935
- Les Miserables 1952
- Arnold 1973
- Me, Natalie 1969
- The Glass Slipper 1955
- Terror in the Wax Museum 1973
- Passport to Destiny 1944
- In Name Only 1969
- David Copperfield 1935
- Die Laughing 1980
- Vessel of Wrath 1938
- Frenchie 1950
- Thumbs Up 1943
- The Constant Nymph 1928
- Forever and a Day 1943
- 3 Ring Circus 1954
- Comets 1930
- That Darn Cat! 1965
- Bride of Frankenstein 1935
- Universal Horror 1998
- Terror in the Aisles 1984
- Burke's Law 1963
- I Love Lucy 1951
- General Electric Theater 1953
- Nanny and the Professor 1970
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
- Burke's Law 1963
- Studio One 1948
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color 1954
- Mannix 1967
- The Ford Television Theatre 1952