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 Poppins1964
- Bell, Book and Candle1958
- Lassie Come Home1943
- Murder by Death1976
- The Spiral Staircase1946
- Tales of Manhattan1942
- The Inspector General1949
- Hell's Half Acre1954
- Ladies in Retirement1941
- Willard1971
- The Private Life of Henry VIII1933
- Witness for the Prosecution1957
- The Secret Garden1949
- Naughty Marietta1935
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake1942
- Blackbeard's Ghost1968
- My Dog the Thief1969
- Buccaneer's Girl1950
- Easy Come, Easy Go1967
- Androcles and the Lion1952
- Rembrandt1936
- Mystery Street1950
- The Bishop's Wife1947
- The Big Clock1948
- Rascal1969
- Pajama Party1964
- The Razor's Edge1946
- Dreamboat1952
- Honeymoon Hotel1964
- Come to the Stable1949
- The Girls of Pleasure Island1953
- Northwest Outpost1947
- The Petty Girl1950
- The Ghost Goes West1935
- Les Miserables1952
- Arnold1973
- Me, Natalie1969
- The Glass Slipper1955
- Terror in the Wax Museum1973
- Passport to Destiny1944
- In Name Only1969
- David Copperfield1935
- Die Laughing1980
- Vessel of Wrath1938
- Frenchie1950
- Thumbs Up1943
- The Constant Nymph1928
- Forever and a Day1943
- 3 Ring Circus1954
- Comets1930
- That Darn Cat!1965
- Bride of Frankenstein1935
- Universal Horror1998
- Terror in the Aisles1984
- Burke's Law1963
- I Love Lucy1951
- General Electric Theater1953
- Nanny and the Professor1970
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962
- Burke's Law1963
- Studio One1948
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1954
- Mannix1967
- The Ford Television Theatre1952