Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was an English actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born in Lewisham, London. Her parents, James Shamus Sullivan and Edith Biddy Lanchester , were considered Bohemian, and refused to legalise their union in any conventional way to satisfy the eras conservative society. They were both socialists, according to Lanchesters 1970 interview with Dick Cavett. Elsas older brother, Waldo Sullivan Lanchester, born five years earlier, was a puppeteer, with his own marionette company based in Malvern, Worcestershire and later in StratforduponAvon.

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