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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2009
Murder by Death

as Jessica Marbles

1976
Arnold

as Hester

1973
Terror in the Wax Museum

as Julia Hawthorn

1973
Willard

as Henrietta Stiles

1971
My Dog the Thief

as Mrs. Formby

1969
In Name Only

as Gertrude Caruso

1969
Blackbeard's Ghost

as Emily Stowecroft

1968
That Darn Cat!

as Mrs. MacDougall

1965
Mary Poppins

as Katie Nanna

1965
Pajama Party

as Aunt Wendy

1964
Witness for the Prosecution

as Miss Plimsoll

1957
The Glass Slipper

as Widow Sonder

1955
Hell's Half Acre

as Lida O'Reilly

1954
3 Ring Circus

as The Bearded Lady

1954
Androcles and the Lion

as Megaera

1952
Les Miserables

as Madame Magloire

1952
Mystery Street

as Mrs. Smerrling

1950
Buccaneer's Girl

as Madame Brizar

1950
The Inspector General

as Maria

1949
The Secret Garden

as Martha

1949
The Big Clock

as Louise Patterson

1948
The Bishop's Wife

as Matilda

1947
The Spiral Staircase

as Mrs. Oates

1946
The Razor's Edge

as Miss Keith

1946
Passport to Destiny

as Ella Muggins

1944
Lassie Come Home

as Mrs. Helen Carraclough

1943
Elsa Lanchester Elsa Lanchester

Birthday

1902-10-28

Place of Birth

Lewisham, London, England, UK

Biography

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester  (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was an English-American character 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. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Laughton's success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. Her role as the bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), brought her recognition, and came to be one of the roles most closely associated with her throughout her life. Lanchester played supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come to the Stable (1949) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the last of twelve films in which she appeared with Laughton. Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester resumed her career with appearances in such Disney films as Mary Poppins (1964), That Darn Cat! (1965) and Blackbeard's Ghost (1968). The horror film, Willard, (1971) was highly successful and one of her last roles was in Murder By Death (1976). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Lanchester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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