Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and … See more

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born in Lewisham, London. Her parents, James "Séamus" Sullivan (1872–1945) and Edith "Biddy" Lanchester (1871–1966), were Bohemians, and refused to marry in a religious or … See more

After World War I, Lanchester started the Children's Theatre, and later the Cave of Harmony, a nightclub at which modern plays and cabaret turns were performed. She revived old Victorian songs and ballads, ma… See more

Lanchester died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California on 26 December 1986, aged 84, at the Motion Picture Hospital from bronchial pneumonia. Her body was cremated on 5 January 1987, at the Chapel of the Pine… See more

• The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama (1925 short) as Beatrice de Carolle
• One of the Best (1927) as Kitty
• The Constant Nymph (1928) as Lady… See more