Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester

October 28, 1902 · 123 years old

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 ov…

Known For

19 titles
1
Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

1964 · 2h 19m · Movie

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

7.8
2
Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

1957 · 1h 56m · Movie

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

8.4
3
Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

1935 · 1h 15m · Movie

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

7.8
4
Murder by Death

Murder by Death

1976 · 1h 35m · Movie

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

7.2
5
The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife

1947 · 1h 49m · Movie

A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

7.6
6
Bell Book and Candle

Bell Book and Candle

1958 · 1h 46m · Movie

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.

6.8
7
The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase

1946 · 1h 23m · Movie

In 1906, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

7.3
8
The Big Clock

The Big Clock

1948 · 1h 35m · Movie

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

7.6
9
That Darn Cat!

That Darn Cat!

1965 · 1h 56m · Movie

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.

6.7
10
The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

1946 · 2h 25m · Movie

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns ten years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

7.3
11
Blackbeard's Ghost

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968 · 1h 46m · Movie

Track coach Steve Walker accidentally invokes the spirit of notorious pirate Captain Blackbeard who was believed dead. He must now lay the pirate to rest and save a local hotel from mobster Silky Seymour, who wants to build a casino.

6.8
12
Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home

1943 · 1h 29m · Movie

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

7.1
13
Willard

Willard

1971 · 1h 35m · Movie

A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.

6.2
14
Mystery Street

Mystery Street

1950 · 1h 33m · Movie

A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach.

7.2
15
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1949 · 1h 32m · Movie

A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.

7.5
16
Ladies in Retirement

Ladies in Retirement

1941 · 1h 31m · Movie

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

7.1
17
Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

7.1
18
Hell's Half Acre

Hell's Half Acre

1954 · 1h 30m · Movie

An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud against his former crime syndicate partners.

6.3
19
Arnold

Arnold

1973 · 1h 34m · Movie

Upon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.

5.5