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Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester

English-born American actress (1902-1986)
October 28, 1902 (December 26, 1986)
U.S. 1973. Comedy by Georg Fenady with Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester. An English aristocrat who has died leaves his fortune to his mistress, on condition that she marries his corpse in a macabre ceremony.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1970. Horror by Daniel Mann with Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Elsa Lanchester. A young man, who raises rats in his spare time, one day commands his rodents to attack his boss who is giving him a hard time.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1969. Adventures by Norman Tokar with Steve Forrest, Bill Mumy, Elsa Lanchester. A motherless teenager takes in a raccoon that causes him various troubles.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1969. Police comedy by Robert Stevenson with Dwayne Hickman, Mary Ann Mobley, Elsa Lanchester. A thieving dog gets attached to a radio commentator and causes him all kinds of trouble.
U.S. 1964. Musical by Don Weis with Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester. After getting mixed up with a group of teenagers, an inhabitant of planet Mars decides to stay on Earth.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1964. Musical by Robert Stevenson with Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson. Two children discover a world of joy and fantasy thanks to a governess with magical powers.
Runtime: 139 min.
U.S. 1958. Fantasy comedy by Richard Quine with James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon. A witch uses her powers to charm her neighbour.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1957. Court drama by Billy Wilder with Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich. An elderly lawyer accepts to argue a lost cause, convinced of his client's innocence.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1950. Crime drama by John Sturges with Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forest, Elsa Lanchester. After investigating a crime committed four months earlier, a detective finally discovers the real culprit.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1946. Psychological drama by Edmund Goulding with Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb. Feeling lost after demobilization, a man sets off to travel in order to discover the meaning of life.
Runtime: 146 min.
U.S. 1943. Dramatic comedy by Ray McCarey with Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lloyd Corrigan. A simple English housekeeper goes to Germany to kill Hitler.
Runtime: 65 min.
U.S. 1943. Sketches by René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox with Brian Aherne, Gladys Cooper, Donald Crisp. The story of a London home that was built in 1804 and destroyed during the Second World War.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1942. Adventures by John Cromwell with Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders. An English man, dispossessed of his property, makes his fortune in the South Seas.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1941. Crime drama by Charles Vidor with Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Elsa Lanchester. The housekeeper of a retired actress insists on the presence of her two unstable sisters.
Runtime: 91 min.
G.-B. 1938. Dramatic comedy by Erich Pommer with Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 84 min.
G.-B. 1935. Fantasy comedy by René Clair with Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1935. Horror by James Whale with Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester.
Runtime: 75 min.

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