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).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.835 |
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, |
1935
Bride of Frankenstein
7.5/964
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experimen...
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Bride of Frankenstein
1964
Mary Poppins
7.6/4655
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...
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Mary Poppins
1943
Lassie Come Home
6.6/124
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t...
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Lassie Come Home
1958
Bell, Book and Candle
6.5/215
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
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Bell, Book and Candle
1976
Murder by Death
7.2/805
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Murder by Death
1946
The Spiral Staircase
7.048/242
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1942
Tales of Manhattan
6.2/30
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Tales of Manhattan
1949
The Inspector General
6.4/49
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1954
Hell's Half Acre
5.4/17
A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
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Hell's Half Acre
1971
Willard
6.1/111
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Willard
1941
Ladies in Retirement
6.4/29
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Ladies in Retirement
1957
Witness for the Prosecution
8.212/1396
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Witness for the Prosecution
1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
6.295/78
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1949
The Secret Garden
7.1/31
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1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
7.2/14
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1935
Naughty Marietta
5.053/19
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Naughty Marietta
1968
Blackbeard's Ghost
6.7/145
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1969
My Dog the Thief
6.8/13
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My Dog the Thief
1950
Buccaneer's Girl
5.6/13
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
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Buccaneer's Girl
1967
Easy Come, Easy Go
5.9/39
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1952
Androcles and the Lion
5.8/15
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
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Androcles and the Lion
1947
The Bishop's Wife
7.1/234
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The Bishop's Wife
1936
Rembrandt
6.6/32
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt...
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Rembrandt
1948
The Big Clock
7.3/158
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The Big Clock
1950
Mystery Street
6.7/51
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Mystery Street
1969
Rascal
5.8/20
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his fathe...
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Rascal
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1964
Pajama Party
5/21
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
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Pajama Party
1946
The Razor's Edge
6.8/86
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The Razor's Edge
2000
The American Nightmare
6.9/33
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
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The American Nightmare
1952
Dreamboat
6/15
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been vio...
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Dreamboat
1964
Honeymoon Hotel
4.6/7
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
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Honeymoon Hotel
1953
The Girls of Pleasure Island
5/5
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1949
Come to the Stable
6.3/23
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1927
One of the Best
0/0
'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)
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One of the Best
1950
The Petty Girl
4.083/6
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his...
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2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
6/39
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1947
Northwest Outpost
0/0
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1935
The Ghost Goes West
6.5/32
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until...
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The Ghost Goes West
1952
Les Miserables
5.4/15
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
5.7/3
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1973
Arnold
5.1/19
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Arnold
1938
Vessel of Wrath
6.7/10
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Gin...
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Vessel of Wrath
1969
Me, Natalie
5.6/19
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be prett...
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Me, Natalie
1955
The Glass Slipper
6.3/23
Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
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The Glass Slipper
1973
Terror in the Wax Museum
5.283/23
Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.
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Terror in the Wax Museum
1944
Passport to Destiny
5.2/8
An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Passport to Destiny
1950
Frenchie
5.7/11
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she onl...
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Frenchie
1969
In Name Only
0/0
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiat...
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2014
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
7.5/4
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Gra...
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1935
David Copperfield
6.523/65
Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.
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David Copperfield
1980
Die Laughing
4.667/6
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds...
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Die Laughing
1928
Blue Bottles
6.5/2
As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of the...
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Blue Bottles
1931
The Love Habit
0/0
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Love Habit
1930
Ashes
0/0
Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in...
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Ashes
1943
Thumbs Up
6/1
In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she lea...
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Thumbs Up
1928
The Constant Nymph
0/0
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a lo...
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The Constant Nymph
1955
Alice in Wonderland
0/0
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
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Alice in Wonderland
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1954
3 Ring Circus
5.5/20
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different drea...
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3 Ring Circus
1928
Daydreams
0/0
A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is in...
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Daydreams
1928
The Tonic
0/0
The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.
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The Tonic
1930
Comets
0/0
A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.
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Comets
1965
That Darn Cat!
6.5/168
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than s...
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That Darn Cat!
1931
Potiphar's Wife
0/0
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged wit...
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Potiphar's Wife
1931
The Stronger Sex
0/0
A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine
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The Stronger Sex
1931
The Officers' Mess
0/0
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
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The Officers' Mess
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1992
Commercial Entertainment Product
8.5/2
The video debut of experimental musicians and culture jamming artists Emergency Broadcast Network.
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Commercial Entertainment Product
2009
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
6/1
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Be...
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1924
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
0/0
The Pope and Cardinal Montefiasco plot to bring England back within the fold of the Catholic Church. Montefiasco decides to do this by first convertin...
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1993
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
0/0
Documentary about the Yale Puppeteers. A bit eccentric, certainly off beat and creative, the puppeteers and their story - as well as their place in hi...
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1962
The Flood
0/0
Stravinsky and Balanchine's take on the apocalyptic Biblical tale. An opera composed for video.
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2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
9/2
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
1998
Universal Horror
7.2/18
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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