Elsa Lanchester
Acting
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
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Self (archive footage)
The American Nightmare
Self
Universal Horror
(archive footage)
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
Self
Commercial Entertainment Product
The Monster's Bride
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Die Laughing
Sophie
Murder by Death
Jessica Marbles
Arnold
Hester
Terror in the Wax Museum
Julia Hawthorn
Willard
Henrietta Stiles
In Name Only
Gertrude Caruso
My Dog, the Thief
Mrs. Formby
Me, Natalie
Miss Dennison
Rascal
Mrs. Satterfield
Blackbeard's Ghost
Emily Stowecroft
Mondo Hollywood
Easy Come, Easy Go
Madame Neherina
That Darn Cat!
Mrs. MacDougall
Mary Poppins
Katie Nanna
Pajama Party
Aunt Wendy
Honeymoon Hotel
Chambermaid
Noah and the Flood
Noah's wife
Bell, Book and Candle
Aunt Queenie Holroyd
Witness for the Prosecution
Miss Plimsoll
Alice in Wonderland
Red Queen
Heidi
Fräulein Rottenmeier
The Glass Slipper
Widow Sonder
3 Ring Circus
The Bearded Lady
Hell's Half Acre
Lida O'Reilly
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Thelma
Androcles and the Lion
Megaera
Les Miserables
Madame Magloire
Dreamboat
Mathilda Coffey
Frenchie
Countess
The Petty Girl
Dr. Crutcher
Mystery Street
Mrs. Smerrling
Buccaneer's Girl
Madame Brizar
The Inspector General
Maria
Come to the Stable
Amelia Potts
The Secret Garden
Martha
The Big Clock
Louise Patterson
The Bishop's Wife
Matilda
Northwest Outpost
Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana
The Razor's Edge
Miss Keith
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Oates
Passport to Destiny
Ella Muggins
Lassie Come Home
Mrs. Helen Carraclough
Thumbs Up
Emily "Emmy" Ffinch
Forever and a Day
Mamie
Tales of Manhattan
Mrs. Smith
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Bristol Isabel
Ladies in Retirement
Emily Creed
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Vessel of Wrath
Martha Jones
Rembrandt
Hendrickje Stoffels
The Ghost Goes West
Miss Shepperton
Bride of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
Naughty Marietta
Madame d'Annard
David Copperfield
Clickett
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Anne of Cleves
The Officers' Mess
Cora Melville
Potiphar's Wife
Thérèse
The Stronger Sex
Thompson
The Love Habit
Matilde
Ashes
Girl
Comets
Herself
Blue Bottles
Elsa
The Tonic
Elsa
Daydreams
Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence
The Constant Nymph
Lady
One of the Best
Kitty
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
Beatrice de Carolle