Elsa Lanchester

Actor 1924–2025 (101 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Highest Rated

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

2007 · as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · as Red Queen

8.6

Commercial Entertainment Product

1992 · as The Monster's Bride

8.5

Known For

Film

Mary Poppins

Katie Nanna

Film

Witness for the Prosecution

Miss Plimsoll

Film

Bride of Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate

Film

Murder by Death

Jessica Marbles

Film

The Bishop's Wife

Matilda

Film

The Spiral Staircase

Mrs. Oates

Film

The Big Clock

Louise Patterson

Film

Bell, Book and Candle

Aunt Queenie Holroyd

Filmography

Acting (112)

Movies (79)

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

2014

as Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate (archive footage)

7.5

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

2007

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

The American Nightmare

as Self

Universal Horror

as (archive footage)

Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers

1993

as Self

Commercial Entertainment Product

1992

as The Monster's Bride

8.5

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate

5.7

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Die Laughing

as Sophie

Murder by Death

as Jessica Marbles

Arnold

as Hester

Terror in the Wax Museum

as Julia Hawthorn

Willard

as Henrietta Stiles

Rascal

as Mrs. Satterfield

My Dog, the Thief

as Mrs. Formby

Me, Natalie

as Miss Dennison

In Name Only

as Gertrude Caruso

Blackbeard's Ghost

as Emily Stowecroft

Easy Come, Easy Go

as Madame Neherina

Mondo Hollywood

That Darn Cat!

as Mrs. MacDougall

Mary Poppins

as Katie Nanna

Honeymoon Hotel

as Chambermaid

Pajama Party

as Aunt Wendy

Noah and the Flood

as Noah's Wife

Noah and the Flood

1962

as Noah's wife

Bell, Book and Candle

1958

as Aunt Queenie Holroyd

6.5

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

as Miss Plimsoll

8.2

Heidi

1955

as Fräulein Rottenmeier

The Glass Slipper

as Widow Sonder

Alice in Wonderland

as Red Queen

3 Ring Circus

as The Bearded Lady

Hell's Half Acre

as Lida O'Reilly

The Girls of Pleasure Island

1953

as Thelma

5.0

Androcles and the Lion

as Megaera

Les Miserables

as Madame Magloire

Dreamboat

as Mathilda Coffey

Mystery Street

as Mrs. Smerrling

Frenchie

as Countess

Buccaneer's Girl

as Madame Brizar

The Petty Girl

as Dr. Crutcher

The Inspector General

as Maria

The Secret Garden

as Martha

Come to the Stable

as Amelia Potts

The Big Clock

as Louise Patterson

Northwest Outpost

as Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana

The Bishop's Wife

as Matilda

The Razor's Edge

as Miss Keith

The Spiral Staircase

as Mrs. Oates

Passport to Destiny

as Ella Muggins

Thumbs Up

as Emily "Emmy" Ffinch

6.0

Lassie Come Home

1943

as Mrs. Helen Carraclough

Forever and a Day

as Mamie

Tales of Manhattan

as Mrs. Smith

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Bristol Isabel

Ladies in Retirement

as Emily Creed

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

Vessel of Wrath

as Martha Jones

Rembrandt

as Hendrickje Stoffels

6.8

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate

Naughty Marietta

as Madame d'Annard

David Copperfield

as Clickett

The Ghost Goes West

as Miss Shepperton

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933

as Anne of Cleves

6.4

The Love Habit

1931

as Matilde

The Officers' Mess

1931

as Cora Melville

The Stronger Sex

1931

as Thompson

Potiphar's Wife

1931

as Thérèse

Ashes

1930

as Girl

Comets

1930

as Herself

Blue Bottles

as Elsa

The Tonic

as Elsa

Daydreams

as Elsa / Heroine in Dream Sequence

The Constant Nymph

1928

as Lady

One of the Best

1927

as Kitty

The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama

1924

as Beatrice de Carolle

Television (33)

Night Gallery

1970

7.8

Nanny and the Professor

as Aunt Henrietta

The Bill Cosby Show

as Mrs. Wochuk

Then Came Bronson

as Hattie Calter

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Here's Lucy

as Mumsie Westcott

Mannix

as Edna Barrington

The John Forsythe Show

1965

as Margaret Culver

5.0

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Dr. Agnes Dabree

Burke's Law

as Mrs. Ormsby

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Aggie McGregor

Ben Casey

Follow the Sun

Adventures in Paradise

1959

as Miss Creshaw

5.7

Shirley Temple's Storybook

1958

as Mother Goose

6.2

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956

as Self

6.0

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

5.4

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Mrs. Formby

7.8

General Electric Theater

1953

as Hanna Winters

6.4

The Ford Television Theatre

as Rosie Bowker

I Love Lucy

as Edna Grundy

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Red Queen

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Betsey Monk, the Widow

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

Lux Video Theatre

as Emily

Star Time

as Self

The Ed Wynn Show

as Self

Studio One

as Jenny Pratt

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter