Elsa Lanchester

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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was an English actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.

Birth Name

Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan

Born

Tuesday, 28 October 1902

Died

Friday, 26 December 1986

Actress Filmography

Title	Character	Year

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood	Herself (archive footage)	2018
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood	Herself (archive footage)	2009
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	2007
The American Nightmare	Herself (archive footage)	2000
Bride Of Chucky	Clips from 'Bride of Frankenstein'	1998
Universal Horror	(archive footage)	1998
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein	(archive footage)	1994
EBN: Commercial Entertainment Product	The Monster's Bride	1992
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)	1991
Murphy Brown	Self - Opening Credits (archive footage)	1988

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Actress Filmography

Title	Character	Year

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood	Herself (archive footage)	2018
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood	Herself (archive footage)	2009
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	2007
The American Nightmare	Herself (archive footage)	2000
Bride Of Chucky	Clips from 'Bride of Frankenstein'	1998
Universal Horror	(archive footage)	1998
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein	(archive footage)	1994
EBN: Commercial Entertainment Product	The Monster's Bride	1992
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)	1991
Murphy Brown	Self - Opening Credits (archive footage)	1988
American Masters	Self (archive footage)	1986
Moonlighting	Monster's Mate	1985
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Herself (archive footage)	1983
Die Laughing	Sophie	1980
The Paul Ryan Show	Herself	1977
Murder By Death	Jessica Marbles	1976
Arnold	Hester	1973
Terror in the Wax Museum	Julia Hawthorn	1973
Willard	Henrietta Stiles	1971
Night Gallery	Lydia Bowen (segment "Green Fingers")	1970
Nanny and the Professor	Aunt Henrietta	1970
In Name Only	Gertrude Caruso	1969
The Bill Cosby Show	Mrs. Wochuk	1969
Me, Natalie	Miss Dennison	1969
The David Frost Show	Herself	1969
Rascal	Mrs. Satterfield	1969
Then Came Bronson	Hattie Calter	1969
Here's Lucy	Mumsie Westcott	1968
Blackbeard's Ghost	Emily Stowecroft	1968
It Takes a Thief	Miss Mollie Taylor	1968
Mannix	Edna Barrington, Portia Penhaven	1967
Off to See the Wizard	Widow Sonder	1967
Easy Come, Easy Go	Madame Neherina	1967
The Joey Bishop Show	Herself	1967
That Darn Cat!	Mrs. MacDougall	1965
The John Forsythe Show	Margaret Culver, Miss Margaret Culver, Miss Culver	1965
Pajama Party	Aunt Wendy	1964
That Regis Philbin Show	Herself	1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Dr. Agnes Dabree	1964
Slattery's People	Louella Woodward	1964
Mary Poppins	Katie Nanna	1964
Honeymoon Hotel	Chambermaid	1964
Burke's Law	Bessie Mopes, Mrs. Ormsby	1963
The Eleventh Hour	Mrs. Dalrymple	1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Herself - Guest	1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Aggie McGregor	1962
The Tonight Show	Herself	1962
The Mike Douglas Show	Herself - Guest	1961
Ben Casey	Mrs. Miriam Crain	1961
The Dick Powell Theatre	Naomi Griswald	1961
Follow the Sun	Lilli St. John	1961
Here's Hollywood	Herself	1960
Startime	Herself	1959
Adventures in Paradise	Miss Creshaw	1959
Bell Book and Candle	Queenie Holroyd	1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook	Mother Goose	1958
Witness for the Prosecution	Miss Plimsoll	1957
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	Herself	1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Herself	1956
The 20th Century-Fox Hour	Ida Perkins	1955
The Star and the Story		1955
The Glass Slipper	Widow Sonder	1955
3 Ring Circus	The Bearded Lady	1954
The Magical World of Disney	Emily Stowecroft, Mrs. Formby, Mrs. Satterfield, Kipp MacDougall	1954
The George Gobel Show	Herself	1954
Shower of Stars	Mrs. Zooker	1954
The Best of Broadway	Mrs. Orcutt	1954
Max Liebman Spectaculars	Fräulein Rottenmeier	1954
Hell's Half Acre	Lida O'Reilly	1954
The Girls of Pleasure Island	Thelma	1953
General Electric Theater	Hanna Winters	1953
Androcles And The Lion	Megaera	1953
Omnibus	(segment "Toine")	1952
The Ford Television Theatre	Rosie Bowker	1952
Les Miserables	Madame Magloire	1952
Dreamboat	Dr. Mathilda Coffey	1952
I Love Lucy	Mrs. Edna Grundy	1951
Schlitz Playhouse	Betsey Monk, the Widow	1951
Frenchie	Countess	1950
Lux Video Theatre	Emily, Miss Mabel	1950
The Petty Girl	Dr. Crutcher	1950
Mystery Street	Mrs. Smerrling	1950
Buccaneer's Girl	Mme. Brizar / Madame Brizar	1950
Robert Montgomery Presents		1950
The Inspector General	Maria	1949
The Ed Wynn Show	Herself	1949
The Secret Garden	Martha	1949
Come to the Stable	Amelia Potts	1949
Studio One in Hollywood		1948
The Ed Sullivan Show	Herself - Audience Bow, Herself	1948
The Big Clock	Louise Patterson	1948
The Bishop's Wife	Matilda	1947
Northwest Outpost	Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana	1947
The Razor's Edge	Miss Keith	1946
The Spiral Staircase	Mrs. Oates	1946
Passport to Destiny	Ella Muggins	1944
Lassie Come Home	Mrs. Carraclough	1943
Thumbs Up	Emma Finch	1943
Forever and a Day	Mamie	1943
Tales of Manhattan	Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith	1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake	Bristol Isabel	1942
Sullivan's Travels		1941
Ladies in Retirement	Emily Creed	1941
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Herself	1940
The Beachcomber	Martha Jones	1938
Rembrandt	Hendrickje	1936
The Ghost Goes West	Miss Shepperton	1935
Bride of Frankenstein	The Monster's Mate	1935
Naughty Marietta	Madame d'Annard	1935
David Copperfield	Clickett	1935
The Private Life of Henry VIII.	Anne of Cleves - The Fourth Wife	1933
Comets	Herself	1930
Mr. Smith Wakes Up		1929
Day-Dreams	Heroine in Dream Sequence	1928
Blue Bottles	Elsa	1928
The Constant Nymph	Lady	1928