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....

Max

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...

Max

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