Elsie Wagstaff


Elsie Wagstaff was an English actress. Educated at the Guildhall School of Music, her stage work began in the chorus in 1919, and one of her first leading roles was as Sadie Thompson in an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Rain. In 1928, she appeared on Broadway in John Van Druten's Diversion, and in Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale's The Wrecker. She also worked sporadically in films, and with some regularity on television.

Selected filmography

Cotton Queen as Emily John Halifax as JaelLassie from Lancashire as Aunt HettyTrouble Brewing as Mrs. HopkinsCrimes at the Dark House as Mrs. CatherickThe Dark Tower as EveHeadline as Mrs DalyWelcome, Mr. Washington as Miss JonesMeet Sexton Blake as Mrs. BairdOld Mother Riley at Home as Mrs. GinochieAppointment with Crime as Mrs. WilkinsThe Interrupted Journey as Wilding's MaidCelia as Aunt NoraEight O'Clock Walk as Mrs PeskittThe End of the Affair as Bendrix LandladyYou Pay Your Money as Ada SeymourBarnacle Bill as Mrs GraySaturday Night and Sunday Morning as Mrs SeatonThe Snake Woman as Aggie HarkerWhistle Down the Wind as Auntie Dorothy