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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

Mary Poppins

1964
as Katie Nanna

That Darn Cat!

1965
as Mrs. MacDougall

Honeymoon Hotel

1964
as Chambermaid

Naughty Marietta

1935
as Madame d'Annard

Les Miserables

1952
as Madame Magloire

Passport to Destiny

1944
as Ella Muggins

Potiphar's Wife

1931
as Therese

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

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

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

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

Rascal

1969
as Mrs. Satterfield

My Dog, the Thief

1969
as Mrs. Formby

Come to the Stable

1949
as Amelia Potts