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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. [1] Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret
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...
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.
Elsa Lanchester, distinguished by an elfin face and a mop of frizzy copper-colored hair, was the daughter of Edith Lanchester and James Sullivan, a pair of radical socialists who refused to marry, thus placing the burden of illegitimacy on their two 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...
Elsa Lanchester - Actors and Actresses. Nationality: American. Born: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (or Elizabeth Sullivan) in Lewisham, London, 28 October 1902; became U.S. citizen, 1950. Education: Attended Isadora Duncan's Bellevue School, Paris, 1912, and assistant on lecture tours; Margaret Morris's school, Chelsea, London.
Elizabeth Sullivan Lanchester. Birth Place. Lewisham, England, GB. Born. October 28, 1902. Died. December 26, 1986. Cause of Death. Bronchial Pneumonia Following A Stroke. Biography. Read More. Gifted character actress, often in eccentric yet wistful parts, in the US from 1934.
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...
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.
