Elsa Lanchester

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

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	0.249
Birthday	1902-10-28
Place of Birth	Lewisham, London, England, UK
Also Known As	Elsa Sullivan Lanchester, 埃尔莎·兰彻斯特, Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan,

Bride of Frankenstein

Mary Poppins

Lassie Come Home

Bell, Book and Candle

Murder by Death

The Spiral Staircase

Tales of Manhattan

The Inspector General

Hell's Half Acre

Willard

Ladies in Retirement

Witness for the Prosecution

The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Secret Garden

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Naughty Marietta

Blackbeard's Ghost

My Dog, the Thief

Buccaneer's Girl

Easy Come, Easy Go

Androcles and the Lion

The Bishop's Wife

Rembrandt

The Big Clock

Mystery Street

Rascal

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Pajama Party

The Razor's Edge

The American Nightmare

Dreamboat

Honeymoon Hotel

The Girls of Pleasure Island

Come to the Stable

One of the Best

The Petty Girl

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Northwest Outpost

The Ghost Goes West

Les Miserables

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Arnold

Vessel of Wrath

Me, Natalie

The Glass Slipper

Terror in the Wax Museum

Passport to Destiny

Frenchie

In Name Only

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

David Copperfield

Die Laughing

Blue Bottles

The Love Habit

Ashes

Thumbs Up

The Constant Nymph

Alice in Wonderland

Forever and a Day

3 Ring Circus

Daydreams

The Tonic

Comets

That Darn Cat!

Potiphar's Wife

The Stronger Sex

The Officers' Mess

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Commercial Entertainment Product

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama

Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers

The Flood

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Universal Horror