Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986) was an Oscar® nominated English actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. Her movie career lasted over 50 years covering 7 different decades. Her IMDb page shows 99 acting credits from 1925 to 1980 . This page will rank 47 Elsa Lanchester movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Elsa Lanchester Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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- Sort Elsa Lanchester movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 2 | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Supp Actress Nom |
Charles Laughton & Marlene Dietrich |
10.90 | 209.0 | 209.00 | 15 | 91 | 06 / 00 | 99.6 | |
| 1 | Mary Poppins (1964) AA Best Picture Nom |
Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke |
75.60 | 866.7 | 1,816.90 | 1 | 81 | 13 / 05 | 99.5 | |
| 4 | The Razor's Edge (1946) AA Best Picture Nom |
Tyrone Power & Anne Baxter |
13.50 | 416.2 | 416.20 | 6 | 79 | 04 / 01 | 98.8 | |
| 3 | The Bishop's Wife (1947) AA Best Picture Nom |
Cary Grant & Loretta Young |
9.40 | 297.0 | 395.70 | 20 | 78 | 05 / 01 | 98.7 | |
| 6 | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Boris Karloff | 5.70 | 256.7 | 256.70 | 2 | 85 | 01 / 00 | 98.4 | |
| 7 | The Spiral Staircase (1946) | Ethel Barrymore & Rhonda Fleming |
7.40 | 228.9 | 228.90 | 45 | 84 | 01 / 00 | 98.2 | |
| 8 | David Copperfield (1935) AA Best Picture Nom |
Lionel Barrymore & Maureen O'Sullivan |
4.90 | 220.2 | 393.20 | 4 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 97.7 | |
| 8 | Come to the Stable (1949) AA Best Supp Actress Nom |
Loretta Young & Celeste Holm |
8.30 | 208.9 | 208.90 | 15 | 74 | 07 / 00 | 97.4 | |
| 8 | That Darn Cat! (1965) | Hayley Mills & Roddy McDowall |
29.50 | 311.3 | 311.30 | 6 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 97.3 | |
| 10 | Lassie Come Home (1943) | Elizabeth Taylor & Donald Crisp |
7.50 | 268.3 | 463.70 | 21 | 75 | 01 / 00 | 96.6 | |
| 11 | Murder by Death (1976) | David Niven & Peter Sellers |
57.90 | 292.9 | 292.90 | 9 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.4 | |
| 12 | Tales of Manhattan (1942) | Henry Fonda & Rita Hayworth |
7.10 | 265.5 | 265.50 | 18 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 95.8 | |
| 15 | The Inspector General (1949) | Danny Kaye | 6.10 | 153.2 | 272.30 | 35 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 93.3 | |
| 13 | The Big Clock (1948) | Charles Laughton & Ray Milland |
5.30 | 141.8 | 141.80 | 64 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 93.1 | |
| 15 | The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933) AA Best Picture Nom |
Charles Laughton & Merle Oberon |
2.40 | 113.8 | 113.80 | 23 | 79 | 02 / 01 | 92.5 | |
| 14 | Naughty Marietta (1935) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy |
3.00 | 135.8 | 264.00 | 30 | 70 | 02 / 01 | 91.9 | |
| 17 | Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) | Tyrone Power & Gene Tierney |
4.60 | 169.9 | 169.90 | 55 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 19 | Willard (1971) | Ernest Borgnine & Bruce Davison |
28.20 | 184.1 | 184.10 | 11 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 90.5 | |
| 18 | Ladies in Retirement (1941) | Ida Lupino | 3.50 | 136.6 | 136.60 | 66 | 72 | 02 / 00 | 90.3 | |
| 20 | Bell Book and Candle (1958) | James Stewart & Kim Novak |
7.10 | 127.1 | 127.10 | 35 | 68 | 02 / 00 | 87.7 | |
| 21 | 3 Ring Circus (1954) | Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
11.10 | 261.1 | 261.10 | 23 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 86.0 | |
| 22 | The Ghost Goes West (1935) | Robert Donat | 2.40 | 105.9 | 105.90 | 54 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 85.6 | |
| 23 | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Peter Ustinov | 12.90 | 105.8 | 105.80 | 29 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 84.2 | |
| 25 | Forever And a Day (1943) | Ray Milland & Claude Rains |
2.50 | 89.8 | 199.70 | 106 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
| 24 | The Glass Slipper (1955) | Leslie Caron | 3.90 | 80.7 | 174.80 | 86 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
| 26 | Frenchie (1950) | Joel McCrea & Shelley Winters |
4.00 | 89.8 | 89.80 | 80 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 78.2 | |
| 27 | Dreamboat (1952) | Ginger Rogers & Clifton Webb |
5.60 | 108.9 | 108.90 | 51 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 75.7 | |
| 28 | Me, Natalie (1969) | Al Pacino | 5.40 | 41.2 | 41.20 | 50 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 72.9 | |
| 29 | The Secret Garden (1949) | Margaret O'Brien | 1.70 | 42.0 | 52.10 | 152 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 72.5 | |
| 31 | The Beachcomber (1938) | Charles Laughton | 1.80 | 73.1 | 73.10 | 125 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 71.9 | |
| 30 | Rembrandt (1936) | Charles Laughton | 0.90 | 36.8 | 36.80 | 161 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 71.8 | |
| 33 | The Petty Girl (1950) | Robert Cummings | 3.60 | 80.2 | 80.20 | 94 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 68.5 | |
| 34 | Les Miserables (1952) | Michael Rennie & Sylvia Sidney |
3.10 | 59.9 | 59.90 | 117 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 66.7 | |
| 33 | Mystery Street (1950) | Ricardo Montalban & Directed by John Sturges |
1.20 | 27.5 | 49.70 | 175 | 69 | 01 / 00 | 65.6 | |
| 36 | Hell's Half Acre (1954) | Wendell Corey | 2.00 | 45.8 | 45.80 | 123 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 63.8 | |
| 36 | Northwest Outpost (1947) | Nelson Eddy | 1.00 | 28.4 | 28.40 | 163 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 62.6 | |
| 37 | Thumbs Up (1943) | Brenda Joyce | 1.20 | 43.5 | 43.50 | 138 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 61.4 | |
| 38 | Androcles and the Lion (1952) | Victor Mature & Jean Simmons |
3.10 | 61.0 | 61.00 | 114 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 60.9 | |
| 39 | Rascal (1969) | Walter Pidgeon | 5.70 | 43.4 | 43.40 | 48 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 59.8 | |
| 40 | Passport to Destiny (1944) | Gordon Oliver | 0.90 | 28.8 | 28.80 | 155 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 57.1 | |
| 41 | The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) | Don Taylor | 1.60 | 28.6 | 28.60 | 181 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 56.2 | |
| 42 | Buccaneer's Girl (1950) | Yvonne De Carlo | 1.20 | 27.7 | 27.70 | 174 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 54.0 | |
| 43 | Honeymoon Hotel (1964) | Robert Morse | 2.00 | 22.9 | 22.90 | 113 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 27.8 | |
| 44 | Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) | Elvis Presley | 4.80 | 42.9 | 42.90 | 52 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 27.5 | |
| 45 | Die Laughing (1980) | Robbie Benson | 4.10 | 16.9 | 16.90 | 110 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 16.2 | |
| 46 | Terror In The Wax Musuem (1973) | Ray Milland | 1.40 | 8.4 | 8.40 | 143 | 37 | 00 / 00 | 3.7 | |
| 47 | Pajama Party (1964) | Dorothy Lamour & Buster Keaton |
2.40 | 27.9 | 27.90 | 97 | 25 | 00 / 00 | 1.6 |
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Hello Bruce,
Elsa Lanchester, one of the most great britannic actress with the two Margareth, the two Diana, Dame May Whitty, Glenda, Judy and Maggie but anyway i don’t remember her in Mary Poppins and the Razor Hedge but i will neve forget her in The Darn Cat and Blackbeard, she was wonderful, crazy with so much talent and so funny;
In Witness, she cant challenge with Dietrich but she is in the mean time unique with Charles Laughton in that film, there is a so complicity between them, ….of course!
Glad to see a page for her
By the way, the holidays are gone return to home and i do my comment with a very good glass of white wine!
A bientot
Pierre
Hey Pierre….thanks for checking out our Elsa page. Sounds like you had a very relaxing holiday. White wine and UMR….love it! Good points on Witness For The Prosecution. She had a very small part in Mary Poppins….but it is a fun part. I agree her interactions with her real husband, Charles Laughton, are fun to watch. Good stuff.
I saw 10. one favorite mary poppins. 3 in my top 500 mary poppins, razors edge, witness for the prosecution.
Hey bob cox…..sorry it took so long to respond. I guess I fell asleep on the Elsa comment wheel. Your 10 is right behind my 11. Mary Poppins is beloved in my house for sure….WoC likes to watch the Julie Andrews blockbusters on a regular basis…The Sound of Music gets watched more….but Mary is a close second. Witness For The Prosecution is an awesome movie! Great feedback as always.