
Elsa Lanchester net worth is
$19 Million
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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was an English character actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.Lanchester studied dance as a child and after World War I 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). His success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles.Her role as the title character in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) brought her recognition. She 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). Full Name | Elsa Lanchester |
Net Worth | $19 Million |
Date Of Birth | October 28, 1902 |
Died | December 26, 1986, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States |
Place Of Birth | Lewisham, London, England, UK |
Height | 1.62 m |
Occupation | Actress |
Profession | Actor |
Spouse | Charles Laughton |
Parents | Edith Lanchester, James Sullivan |
Siblings | Waldo Lanchester |
Nicknames | Elsa Lanchester, Lanchester, Elsa |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0006471 |
Awards | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
Movies | Bride of Frankenstein, Witness for the Prosecution, Mary Poppins, Murder by Death, Bell, Book and Candle, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Big Clock, Rembrandt, Come to the Stable, The Spiral Staircase, Lassie Come Home, The Inspector General, Naughty Marietta, Blackbeard's Ghost, Willard, The Gh... |
TV Shows | The John Forsythe Show, Mary Poppins |
Star Sign | Scorpio |
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1 | [on Maggie Smith] She's better on stage, from a distance. On a screen, close up, she makes you want to dive for cover. |
2 | [on her "open marriage" to Charles Laughton] We both needed other company. I met his young men, and I had a young man around and Charles didn't even argue. |
3 | It annoys me when mothers drag the poor dears to me and demand the children say something to Frankenstein's bride. Can you imagine an actress being overexposed by a picture she made 40 years ago? |
4 | [on playing the title part in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)] The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone". |
5 | There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingerprints. |
6 | My parents were always a bit arty. They were "advanced". They supported pacifism, vegetarianism, socialism, atheism and all that. |
7 | Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives. |
8 | Facts like that make one feel blue-eyed and normal. |
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1 | Sister of Waldo Lanchester. |
2 | Best remembered by the public for her role as the title character of Bride of Frankenstein (1935). |
3 | Met future husband Charles Laughton while acting in the play "Mr. Prohack" in 1927. |
4 | Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen. |
5 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 505-506. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. |
6 | As an 11-year-old she studied dance under Isadora Duncan and later taught dancing to neighborhood children and schoolmates. |
7 | Sharp-tongued Hollywood commentator, who was denied top billing for Bride of Frankenstein (1935), even though she played the title role. |
All pictures
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Die Laughing | 1980 | | Sophie |
Where's Poppa? | 1979 | TV Movie | Momma Hocheiser |
Murder by Death | 1976 | | Jessica Marbles |
Arnold | 1973 | | Hester |
Terror in the Wax Museum | 1973 | | Julia Hawthorn |
Here's Lucy | 1973 | TV Series | Mumsie Westcott |
Mannix | 1972-1973 | TV Series | Portia Penhaven / Edna Barrington |
Night Gallery | 1972 | TV Series | Lydia Bowen (segment "Green Fingers") |
Nanny and the Professor | 1971 | TV Series | Aunt Henrietta |
Willard | 1971 | | Henrietta Stiles |
The Bill Cosby Show | 1970-1971 | TV Series | Mrs. Wochuk |
It Takes a Thief | 1969 | TV Series | Miss Mollie Taylor |
In Name Only | 1969 | TV Movie | Gertrude Caruso |
Then Came Bronson | 1969 | TV Series | Hattie Calter |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1969 | TV Series | Mrs. Formby |
Me, Natalie | 1969 | | Miss Dennison |
Rascal | 1969 | | Mrs. Satterfield |
Blackbeard's Ghost | 1968 | | Emily Stowecroft |
Off to See the Wizard | 1968 | TV Series | Widow Sonder |
Easy Come, Easy Go | 1967 | | Madame Neherina |
The John Forsythe Show | 1965-1966 | TV Series | Margaret Culver / Miss Margaret Culver / Miss Culver |
That Darn Cat! | 1965 | | Mrs. MacDougall |
Slattery's People | 1965 | TV Series | Louella Woodward |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 1965 | TV Series | Dr. Agnes Dabree |
Ben Casey | 1965 | TV Series | Mrs. Miriam Crain |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Aggie McGregor |
Pajama Party | 1964 | | Aunt Wendy |
Burke's Law | 1963-1964 | TV Series | Bessie Mopes / Mrs. Ormsby |
Mary Poppins | 1964 | | Katie Nanna |
Honeymoon Hotel | 1964 | | Chambermaid |
The Eleventh Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Mrs. Dalrymple |
The Flood | 1962 | TV Movie | Noah's Wife (voice) |
Follow the Sun | 1962 | TV Series | Lilli St. John |
The Dick Powell Theatre | 1961 | TV Series | Naomi Griswald |
General Electric Theater | 1961 | TV Series | Hanna Winters |
Adventures in Paradise | 1960 | TV Series | Miss Creshaw |
Shirley Temple's Storybook | 1958 | TV Series | Mother Goose |
Bell Book and Candle | 1958 | | Aunt Queenie Holroyd |
Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | | Miss Plimsoll |
Robert Montgomery Presents | 1956 | TV Series | |
I Love Lucy | 1956 | TV Series | Mrs. Edna Grundy |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Ida Perkins |
Lux Video Theatre | 1954-1956 | TV Series | Miss Mabel / Emily |
Shower of Stars | 1956 | TV Series | Mrs. Zooker |
The Star and the Story | 1955 | TV Series | |
Alice in Wonderland | 1955 | TV Movie | Red Queen |
Max Liebman Spectaculars | 1955 | TV Series | Fräulein Rottenmeier |
The Best of Broadway | 1955 | TV Series | Mrs. Orcutt |
The Ford Television Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | Rosie Bowker |
The Glass Slipper | 1955 | | Widow Sonder |
3 Ring Circus | 1954 | | The Bearded Lady |
Hell's Half Acre | 1954 | | Lida O'Reilly |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1953 | TV Series | Betsey Monk, the Widow |
Studio One in Hollywood | 1953 | TV Series | |
The Girls of Pleasure Island | 1953 | | Thelma |
Androcles and the Lion | 1952 | | Megaera |
Les Miserables | 1952 | | Madame Magloire |
Dreamboat | 1952 | | Dr. Mathilda Coffey |
Frenchie | 1950 | | Countess |
The Petty Girl | 1950 | | Dr. Crutcher |
Mystery Street | 1950 | | Mrs. Smerrling |
Buccaneer's Girl | 1950 | | Mme. Brizar |
The Inspector General | 1949 | | Maria |
Come to the Stable | 1949 | | Amelia Potts |
The Secret Garden | 1949 | | Martha |
The Big Clock | 1948 | | Louise Patterson |
The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | | Matilda |
Northwest Outpost | 1947 | | Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana |
The Razor's Edge | 1946 | | Miss Keith |
The Spiral Staircase | 1945 | | Mrs. Oates |
Passport to Destiny | 1944 | | Ella Muggins |
Lassie Come Home | 1943 | | Mrs. Carraclough |
Thumbs Up | 1943 | | Emma Finch |
Forever and a Day | 1943 | | Mamie |
Tales of Manhattan | 1942 | | Elsa (Mrs Charles) Smith |
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | 1942 | | Bristol Isabel |
Ladies in Retirement | 1941 | | Emily Creed |
The Beachcomber | 1938 | | Martha Jones |
Rembrandt | 1936 | | Hendrickje |
Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty | 1936 | Short | Millicent Bracegirdle |
The Ghost Goes West | 1935 | | Miss Shepperton |
Naughty Marietta | 1935 | | Madame d'Annard |
David Copperfield | 1935 | | Clickett |
The Private Life of Don Juan | 1934 | | Maid (uncredited) |
The Private Life of Henry VIII. | 1933 | | Anne of Cleves The Fourth Wife |
Potiphar's Wife | 1931 | | Therese |
The Stronger Sex | 1931 | | Thompson |
The Officers' Mess | 1931 | | Cora Melville |
The Love Habit | 1931 | | Mathilde |
Ashes | 1930 | Short | Girl |
Mr. Smith Wakes Up | 1929 | Short | |
Blue Bottles | 1928 | Short | Elsa |
Daydreams | 1928 | Short | Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence |
The Tonic | 1928 | Short | Elsa |
The Constant Nymph | 1928 | | Lady |
One of the Best | 1927 | | Kitty |
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama | 1925 | Short | Beatrice de Carolle |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Blackbeard's Ghost | 1968 | performer: "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" - uncredited | |
Easy Come, Easy Go | 1967 | performer: "Yoga Is As Yoga Does" | |
Startime | 1960 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1959 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Ed Wynn Show | 1950 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Razor's Edge | 1946 | performer: "Loch Lomond" - uncredited | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2014 | TV Series in memory of - 1 episode | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers | 1993 | Documentary | Herself |
Hollywood Greats | 1978 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Paul Ryan Show | 1977 | TV Series | Herself |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1965-1976 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1965-1972 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest |
The David Frost Show | 1970-1972 | TV Series | Herself |
The Dick Cavett Show | 1970-1972 | TV Series | Herself |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The Woody Woodbury Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1951-1967 | TV Series | Herself - Audience Bow / Herself |
Today | 1965 | TV Series | Herself |
That Regis Philbin Show | 1964 | TV Series | Herself |
The Merv Griffin Show | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1959-1962 | TV Series | Herself |
The Tonight Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
Academy Award Songs | 1960 | TV Movie | Herself - Actress |
Startime | 1960 | TV Series | Herself |
The Gene Kelly Show | 1959 | TV Movie | Herself - Commercials |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1959 | TV Series | Herself - Actress / Singer |
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | 1958 | TV Series | Herself |
The George Gobel Show | 1956 | TV Series | Herself |
I've Got a Secret | 1955 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The Arthur Murray Party | 1950 | TV Series | Herself |
The Ed Wynn Show | 1950 | TV Series | Herself |
The Cavalcade of Academy Awards from 1928-1939 | 1940 | Documentary short | Herself |
Round the Film Studios | 1937 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
Comets | 1930 | | Herself |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1958 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actress | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1966 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Supporting Performance, Female | That Darn Cat! (1965) |
1958 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) |
1950 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Come to the Stable (1949) |
Known for movies




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