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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. 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.
Elsa Lanchester. Actress: Witness for the Prosecution. Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born into an unconventional a family at the turn of the 20th century.
Oct 31, 2018 · Oscar-nominated for Supporting Actress in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Elsa Lanchester might also be remembered as pranking witch...
Dec 27, 1986 · Elsa Lanchester, the stage and screen actress perhaps best known for eccentric and comic roles such as the monster's wife in ''The Bride of Frankenstein,'' died of pneumonia...
British-born actress whose Bride of Frankenstein has become a cult classic. Born on October 28, 1902, in Lewisham, England; died in December 1986; only daughter and one of two children of Edith Lanchester and James Sullivan (a laborer); attended Mr. Kettle's School, London; married Charles Laughton (an actor), in 1929 (died 1962); no children.
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.
marriage to Laughton. In Charles Laughton. …met his future wife, actress Elsa Lanchester. He went to New York City in 1931, where he repeated his London stage success in Payment Deferred (1932), and was signed by Paramount Pictures the following year.
Mar 6, 2024 · Cast and Crew. Elsa Lanchester. Find on IMDB. Find on Wikipedia. Me, Natalie (1969) Roger Ebert. Miss Dennison. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Roger Ebert. Mary Shelley/Bride. Features. On how two recent films twist the Frankenstein myth to their own ends. Features. On the resurgence of Mary Shelley's classic tale. Features.
An eccentric character player, long in Hollywood with husband Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester is now best remembered, wild-haired and hissing-voiced, as The Bride of Frankenstein (US, d. James Whale, 1935), or of his "monster", and as her creator, Mary Shelley.
Elsa Lanchester. October 28, 1902 — December 26, 1986 • 84 y.o. (121) Actress. Facts. Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born in Lewisham, London. Her parents, James "Séamus" Sullivan (1872–1945) and Edith "Biddy" Lanchester (1871–1966), were Bohemians, and refused to marry in a religious or legal way as a rebellion against Edwardian era society.
