Mini-Biography:
Elsa Lanchester was born on October 28, 1902 in London. She was an English Actress, known for Mary Poppins (1964), Blackbeard's Ghost (1967), The Spiral Staircase (1946), Elsa Lanchester's first movie on record is from 1928. Elsa Lanchester died on December 26, 1986 in Woodland Hills, CA, USA. Her last motion picture on file dates from 1980.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1980: Die laughing (Cast: Katie), Directed by Jeff Werner, with Robby Benson, Bud Cort, Peter Coyote,
1975: Murder by Death (Cast: Jessica Marbles), Directed by Robert Moore, with Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco,
1973: Terror in the wax museum (Cast), Directed by George Fenady, with Broderick Crawford, Maurice Evans,
1967: Blackbeard's Ghost (Cast: Emily Stowecroft), Directed by Robert Stevenson, with Joby Baker, Dean Jones,
1964: Mary Poppins (Cast: Katie Nanna), Directed by Robert Stevenson, with Julie Andrews, Hermione Baddely, Karen Dotrice,
1957: Witness for the prosecution (Cast: Miss Plimsoll), Directed by Billy Wilder, with Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton,
1955: The Glass Slipper (Cast: Witwe Sonder), Directed by Charles Walters, with Amanda Blake, Leslie Caron, Lisa Daniels,
1952: Les Misérables (Cast), Directed by Lewis Milestone, with Merry Anders, Florence Bates, Edmund Gwenn,
1952: Dreamboat (Cast), Directed by Claude Binyon, with Fred Clark, Ray Collins, Anne Francis,
1950: (Cast: Dr. Crutcher), Directed by Henry Levin, with Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield,
1950: Mystery Street (Cast), Directed by John Sturges, with Bruce Bennett, Sally Forrest,
1950: Frenchie (Cast: Tante), Directed by Louis King, with George Cleveland, John Emery, Paul Kelly,
1950: Buccaneer's Girl (Cast), Directed by Frederick de Cordova, with Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Douglas, Philip Friend,
1949: Come to the stable (Cast), Directed by Henry Koster, with Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe,
1949: The Secret Garden (Cast: Martha), Directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with Billy Bevan, Matthew Boulton, Gladys Cooper,
1949: The inspector general (Cast: Maria, Frau des Bürgermeisters), Directed by Henry Koster, with Benny Baker, Barbara Bates, Walter Catlett,
1948: The big clock (Cast), Directed by John Farrow, with Rita Johnson, Charles Laughton,
1947: The Bishop's Wife (Cast: Matilda), Directed by Henry Koster, with Loretta Young, David Niven, Cary Grant,
1946: The Spiral Staircase (Cast: Frau Oates), Directed by Robert Siodmak, with Sara Allgood, Ethel Barrymore, James Bell,
1944: Passport to Destiny (Cast), Directed by Ray McCarey, with Fritz Feld, Gordon Oliver,
1943: Lassie come home (Cast: Mrs. Carraclough), Directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with J.Patrick O'Malley, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp,
1943: Forever and a day (Cast: Mamie ), Directed by René Clair, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Herbert Wilcox, Edmund Goulding, with Cedric Hardwicke, Buster Keaton, Charles Laughton,
1938: The Beachcomber (Vessel of Wrath) (Cast: Martha Jones), Directed by Erich Pommer, Bartlett Cormack, with Charles Laughton, ,
1936: The Ghost goes west (Il fantasma galante) (Cast: Miss Shepperton), Directed by René Clair, with R Bunker, Robert Donat, E Gregg,
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein (Cast: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate), Directed by James Whale, with Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson,
1935: Naughty Marietta (Cast: Madame d'Annard), Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke, with Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan,
1928: The Tonic (Cast: Elsa), Directed by Ivor Montagu, with , Charles Laughton,
Bibliography
John Willis' Screen World, 1987 Film Annual Vol 38