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Elsa Buchanan

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Elsa Buchanan
Born
Elsie Winifred Buchanan Tinker

(1908-12-22)22 December 1908
Died17 January 2004(2004-01-17) (aged 95)
OccupationActress
Years active1912–1938
SpouseNoll Charlton (1938–1966) (his death)

Elsa Buchanan (22 December 1908 – 17 January 2004) was an English character actress with a brief career in theatre and film.[1]

Born Elsie Winifred Buchanan Tinker, Buchanan made her stage debut at age three at the Palace Theatre, London at a performance attended by Queen Mary. Buchanan was later the first Briton admitted to the training school of the Académie française.

She made seventeen films in the United States, where she was noted for her blonde hair and called "the girl with the largest eyes and the smallest waist in Hollywood." She accepted the proposal of her husband, a merchant sailor named Noll Charlton, while attending a coronation ball for King George VI and retired from film thereafter.

Shortly before her death, she saw Gosford Park, in which one of the characters, a Hollywood producer, discusses casting for Charlie Chan in London, inviting a blonde maid to audition for the part that she actually played in that film.

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1934 Riptide Daphne Uncredited
1934 Charlie Chan in London Alice Rooney
1934 The Little Minister Villager Uncredited
1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood Mrs. Tisher
1935 Here's to Romance Enid
1935 Peter Ibbetson Madame Pasquier
1935 I Found Stella Parish Stella's Maid Uncredited
1935 A Tale of Two Cities Candy Clerk Uncredited
1935 Sylvia Scarlett Minor Role Uncredited
1936 Little Lord Fauntleroy Susan
1936 Love on the Run English Department Store Girl Uncredited
1936 Lloyd's of London Servant Girl
1937 Ready, Willing and Able Maid at Party Uncredited
1937 Call It a Day Vera, the Maid Uncredited
1937 Song of the Forge Uncredited
1937 The Thirteenth Chair Miss Stanby
1937 The Dark Stairway Uncredited
1938 Invisible Enemy Sophia (final film role)

References

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  1. ^ "Elsa Buchanan". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
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