Elsa Lanchester

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1902 age 0

   Born

2. 1935 age 33

   CreditBride of Frankenstein

3. 1942 age 40

   CreditSullivan's Travels

4. 1943 age 41

   CreditLassie Come Home

5. 1946 age 44

   CreditThe Spiral Staircase

6. 1947 age 45

   CreditThe Bishop's Wife

7. 1957 age 55

   CreditWitness for the Prosecution

8. 1964 age 62

   CreditMary Poppins

9. 1976 age 74

   CreditMurder by Death

10. 1986 age 84

    Died

• EHEdith Head2 titles
• JOJ. Pat O'Malley2 titles
• UOUna O'Connor2 titles
• DNDavid Niven2 titles
• WDWalt Disney1 title
• GRGeorges Renavent1 title
• NVNorma Varden1 title
• TMTorben Meyer1 title
• DDDon DaGradi1 title
• MSMaggie Smith1 title

• Spouse

  • CLCharles Laughton

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth—or anywhere else.

  Elsa Lanchester, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingerprints.

  Elsa Lanchester, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Elsa Lanchester, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I remember another solo trip, on the Berengaria, sailing from New York to Southampton. It was during Prohibition, and two acquaintances were aboard, fellows who were connected with a museum. I had brought a bottle of Scotch with me, and I used it to tempt them to talk. Like a sort of truth serum. Well, one of these fellows confided in me that he liked to wear a tiger-skin belt next to his skin — inside out, with the fur next to him. Facts like that make one feel blue-eyed and normal.

  Elsa Lanchester, CC BY-SA 4.0

• She's better on stage, from a distance. On a screen, close up, she makes you want to dive for cover.

  Elsa Lanchester, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives.

  Elsa Lanchester, CC BY-SA 4.0