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Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was a British-American actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.

Aliases
  • Elsa Sullivan Lanchester
English
Filmography

Mary Poppins

1964
as Katie Nanna

That Darn Cat!

1965
as Mrs. MacDougall

Honeymoon Hotel

1964
as Chambermaid

The Secret Garden

1949
as Martha

Naughty Marietta

1935
as Madame d'Annard

Hollywood Greats: Charles Laughton

1978
as Elsa Lanchester

Androcles and the Lion

1952
as Megaera

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

1942
as Bristol Isabel

Les Miserables

1952
as Madame Magloire

Passport to Destiny

1944
as Ella Muggins

Witness for the Prosecution

1957
as Miss Plimsoll

Die Laughing

1980

Potiphar's Wife

1931
as Therese

The Constant Nymph

1928
as Lady

Vessel of Wrath

1938
as Martha Jones

Mystery Street

1950
as Mrs. Smerrling

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Herself (archive footage)

Buccaneer's Girl

1950
as Madame Brizar

Me, Natalie

1969
as Miss Dennison

Pajama Party

1964
as Aunt Wendy

Easy Come, Easy Go

1967
as Madame Neherina

The Spiral Staircase

1946
as Mrs. Oates

The Petty Girl

1950
as Dr. Crutcher

David Copperfield

1935
as Clickett

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933
as Anne of Cleves

Ladies in Retirement

1941
as Emily Creed

Terror in the Wax Museum

1973
as Julia Hawthorn

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968
as Emily Stowecroft

The Big Clock

1948
as Louise Patterson

Bell, Book and Candle

1958
as Aunt Queenie Holroyd

Dreamboat

1952
as Dr. Mathilda May Coffey

Northwest Outpost

1947
as Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana

The Stronger Sex

1931
as Thompson

Arnold

1973
as Hester

Blue Bottles

1928
as Elsa

Alice in Wonderland

1955
as Red Queen

Forever and a Day

1943
as Mamie

The Bride of Frankenstein

1935
as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Bride

Rembrandt

1936
as Hendrickje Stoffels

Tales of Manhattan

1942
as Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith

The Tonic

1928
as Elsa

The Bishop's Wife

1947
as Matilda

The Razor's Edge

1946
as Miss Keith

The Girls of Pleasure Island

1953
as Thelma

3 Ring Circus

1954
as The Bearded Lady

The Officers' Mess

1931
as Cora Melville

Willard

1971
as Henrietta Stiles

The Glass Slipper

1955
as Widow Sonder

Fantôme à vendre

1935
as Miss Shepperton

Murder by Death

1976
as Jessica Marbles

Hell's Half Acre

1954
as Lida O'Reilly

Frenchie

1950
as Countess

Lassie Come Home

1943
as Mrs. Carraclough

The John Forsythe Show

1965

Rascal

1969
as Mrs. Satterfield

My Dog, the Thief

1969
as Mrs. Formby

Come to the Stable

1949
as Amelia Potts

The Inspector General

1949
as Maria

Guest Star

Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Alexis Smith, Gloria Swanson, Elsa Lanchester, Jeanette Rankin 		1972
Episode Burke's Law
Who Killed Eleanora Davis? 		1963
Episode I Love Lucy
Off to Florida 		1956
Episode Nanny and the Professor
Aunt Henrietta's Premonition 		1971
Episode I've Got a Secret
Elsa Lanchester 		1955
Episode Nanny and the Professor
Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx 		1971
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The McGregor Affair 		1964
Episode The Ed Wynn Show
Elsa Lanchester/Reginald Gardiner 		1950
Episode The Eleventh Hour
A Full Moon Every Night 		1964
Episode Slattery's People
Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow? 		1965
Episode Mannix
Death is the Fifth Gear 		1972
Episode Night Gallery
Green Fingers 		1972
Episode Burke's Law
Who Killed Cassandra Cass? 		1964
Episode Mannix
A Matter of Principle 		1973
Episode Nanny and the Professor
Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist 		1971
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Stevie Wonder, Elsa Lanchester, Alain Delon, Tex Ritter 		1970
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Brain-Killer Affair 		1965