Cast: Elsa Lanchester
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Elsa Lanchester. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London,...
8.6
43K votes
8.6
43K votes
The Razor's Edge
1946 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · John Payne · Anne Baxter
Plot Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929,...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
The Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken...
7.2
12K votes
7.2
12K votes
Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Moore
Cast Alec Guinness · David Niven · Peter Sellers · Peter Falk
Plot Millionnaire Lionel Twain invites the five most brilliant private eyes to a dinner - and a murder. So, Sidney Wang from China, Dick Charleston from New York, Jessica Marbles from...
7.2
14K votes
7.2
14K votes
The Spiral Staircase
1945 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Dorothy McGuire · George Brent · Kent Smith · Ethel Barrymore
Plot Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion....
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Mary Poppins
1964 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Julie Andrews · Dick Van Dyke · David Tomlinson · Glynis Johns
Plot A magical nanny takes the two young children of a wealthy London banker on a journey into playful worlds and eccentric characters, eventually showing them and their cold-hearted father the...
7.1
90K votes
7.1
90K votes
Rembrandt
1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Korda
Cast Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester · Gertrude Lawrence · Edward Chapman
Plot A character study focusing on the later life (particularly at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s) of Rembrandt Van Rijn is depicted through a series of vignettes....
7.0
701 votes
7.0
701 votes
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Korda
Cast Charles Laughton · Binnie Barnes · Robert Donat · Elsa Lanchester
Plot This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal castle, it begins just before the death...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Tales of Manhattan
1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers
Plot A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
7.0
536 votes
7.0
536 votes
David Copperfield
1935 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · W.C. Fields · Roland Young
Plot England, 19th-century. When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from...
7.0
958 votes
7.0
958 votes
The Big Clock
1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Ray Milland · Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan · George Macready
Plot Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Night Gallery (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney
Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price
Plot Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery...
6.9
166 votes
6.9
166 votes
Mystery Street
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Ricardo Montalban · Sally Forrest · Bruce Bennett · Elsa Lanchester
Plot A skeleton is found on a Massachusetts beach. Boston detective Lt. Peter Morales (Ricardo Montalban) takes it to Harvard, where Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) determines that it belonged to a...
6.8
395 votes
6.8
395 votes
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · George Sanders · Frances Farmer
Plot Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.
6.7
379 votes
6.7
379 votes
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Cary Grant · Loretta Young · David Niven · Monty Woolley
Plot A harassed bishop's prayers are answered when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church. The heavenly agent performs...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Les Miserables
1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn
Plot After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who...
6.7
94 votes
6.7
94 votes
Bell, Book and Candle
1958 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Richard Quine
Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Jack Lemmon · Ernie Kovacs
Plot A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real. Gillian Holroyd is...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
The Secret Garden
1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Fred M. Wilcox
Cast Margaret O'Brien · Herbert Marshall · Dean Stockwell · Gladys Cooper
Plot When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark, drafty, with over 100...
6.4
56 votes
6.4
56 votes
Ladies in Retirement
1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Ida Lupino · Louis Hayward · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester
Plot The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
6.4
145 votes
6.4
145 votes
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Peter Ustinov · Dean Jones · Suzanne Pleshette · Elsa Lanchester
Plot In this comedy, Peter Ustinov is the famous pirate's ghost that returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife who was a notorious witch, so that...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes