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Elsa Lanchester
Highest Rated: 100% David Copperfield (1935)
Lowest Rated: 33% Pajama Party (1964)
Birthday: Oct 28, 1902
Birthplace: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Gifted character actress, often in eccentric yet wistful parts, in the US from 1934. Perhaps best remembered for her dual roles in "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), as both the monster's mate and his "creator," author Mary Shelley, Lanchester also brought her slightly dizzy, perennially scene-stealing charm to films as diverse as "Rembrandt" (1937), "Mystery Street" (1950), "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958) and "Murder by Death" (1976). Lanchester was married to actor Charles Laughton from 1929 until his death in 1962; besides working memorably together with him in "Rembrandt" she also played the nurse who endlessly fidgets over his misbehaving barrister (both of them received Oscar nominations) in Billy Wilder's delightful "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Die Laughing | Sophie (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 68% | 82% | Murder by Death | Miss Jessica Marbles (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Terror in the Wax Museum | Julia Hawthorn (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Arnold | Hester (Character) | $23.6K | 1973 |
| 52% | 37% | Willard | Henrietta Stiles (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Rascal | Mrs. Satterfield (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Name Only | Gertrude Caruso (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Me, Natalie | Miss Dennison (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 82% | 71% | Blackbeard's Ghost | Emily Stowecroft (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 43% | 36% | Easy Come, Easy Go | Madame Neherina (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 94% | 72% | That Darn Cat! | Mrs. William MacDougall (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon Hotel | Chambermaid (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 97% | 86% | Mary Poppins | Katie Nann (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 33% | 34% | Pajama Party | Aunt Wendy (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 76% | 66% | Bell, Book and Candle | Queenie (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 100% | 95% | Witness for the Prosecution | Miss Plimsoll (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stranger in the Night | Ida Perkins (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Glass Slipper | Widow Sonder (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Three Ring Circus | The Bearded Lady (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Hell's Half Acre | Lida O'Reilly (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girls of Pleasure Island | Thelma (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Dreamboat | Dr. Mathilda Coffey (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 43% | 48% | Androcles and the Lion | Megaera (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Les Misérables | Madame Magloire (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Frenchie | Countess (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Mystery Street | Mrs. Smerrling (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Buccaneer's Girl | Mme. Brizar (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Petty Girl | Dr. Crutcher (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Come to the Stable | Amelia Potts (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 91% | 79% | The Inspector General | Maria (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Secret Garden | Martha (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 100% | 83% | The Big Clock | Louise Patterson (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 85% | 81% | The Bishop's Wife | Matilda (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 86% | 78% | The Spiral Staircase | Mrs. Oates (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passport to Destiny | Ella Muggins (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 94% | 77% | Lassie Come Home | Mrs. Carraclough (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Son of Fury | Bristol Isabel (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Ladies in Retirement | Emily Creed (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beachcomber | Martha Jones (Character) | - | 1938 |
| 100% | 51% | The Ghost Goes West | Miss Shepperton (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 75% | 75% | Rembrandt | Hendrickje Stoffels (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 56% | 76% | Naughty Marietta | Madame d'Annard (Character) | - | 1935 |
| 100% | 76% | David Copperfield | Clickett (Character) | - | 1935 |
| 98% | 87% | Bride of Frankenstein |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley/ |
- | 1935 |
| 95% | 75% | The Private Life of Henry VIII | Anne of Cleves (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Strange Desire | Therese (Character) | - | 1931 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disney's Wonderful World | Mrs. MacDougall (Character) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Edna Barrington (Guest Star) | 1972-1973 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Character) | 1972 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Mrs. Miriam Crain (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |