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  1. Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British 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.

  2. Elsa Lanchester. Actress: Witness for the Prosecution. Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born into an unconventional a family at the turn of the 20th century.

  3. Aug 3, 2008 · 385K views 15 years ago. Charles Laughton was in an unfinished Josef von Sternberg movie called I, CLAUDIUS. ...more.

  4. 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...

  5. There's not nearly enough of Elsa Lanchester in James Whale's sequel to 1931's Frankenstein-- even though she plays the Bride herself. In the prologue, Lanch...

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Feb 10, 2024 · Elsa Lanchester, Herself presents the story of a woman ahead of her time: independent, iconoclastic, liberated. It is the chronicle of a life filled with famous people (from Bertolt Brecht to Henry Fonda), and of a career that spanned almost seven decades.

  9. Aug 30, 2016 · Elsa had a great desire to become a classical dancer and to that end at age 10 her mother enrolled her at the famed Isadora Duncans Bellevue School in Paris in 1912. But the uncertainties of WW1 brought her home after only two years.

  10. British-born American actress. Learn about this topic in these articles: “Big Clock, The” In The Big Clock. …but pivotal supporting performance by Elsa Lanchester, who was Laughton’s offscreen wife. A 1987 remake of the film, a political Cold War thriller called No Way Out, starred Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. Read More. “Bride of Frankenstein”