Elsa Chauvel

Elsa Chauvel

Known for

Writing

Born

February 10, 1898

Birthplace

Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Died

August 22, 1983 (aged 85)

Biography

Elsa Chauvel (1898-1983), actress and film maker, was born on 10 February 1898 at Collingwood, Melbourne, and registered as Elsie May, second of three children of Edward Wilcox, a tinsmith from New South Wales, and his Queensland-born wife Ada Marie, née Worrall. When Elsie was a child the family went to South Africa, where Wilcox (under the stage name Silveni/Sylvaney) formed a travelling troupe, which included both Elsie (Sylvaney) and her elder brother, whose stage name was Kyrle McAlister. Later, with her brother, she joined other theatrical companies in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and, after a successful tour of Basutoland under Kyrle’s management, returned to Australia in 1924.

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Best known work

In the Wake of the Bounty
In the Wake of the Bounty
1933
Jedda
Jedda
1955
Forty Thousand Horsemen
Forty Thousand Horsemen
1940
Sons of Matthew
Sons of Matthew
1949
The Rats of Tobruk
The Rats of Tobruk
1944
Uncivilised
Uncivilised
1936
Rangle River
Rangle River
1936
Greenhide
Greenhide
1926
The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
2014

Filmography

  1. 2014

    The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel

    as Self (archive footage)

  2. 1955

    Jedda

    Writer

  3. 1949

    Sons of Matthew

    Screenplay

  4. 1944

  5. 1940

  6. 1936

    Rangle River

    Screenplay

  7. 1936

    Uncivilised

    Assistant Director

  8. 1933

  9. 1926

    Greenhide

    as Margery Paton

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