Elsa Chauvel

Elsa Chauvel, born as Elsie May Wilcox, ( born February 10, 1898 in Collingwood, † August 22 1983 in Toowoomba ) was an Australian actress.

Life

Chauvel was in its infancy in South Africa, where her father founded a traveling theater troupe. This she was under the stage name Elsie Silveni or Sylvaney to as well as her brother, who appeared under the name Kyrle McAlister. Later, she joined with her brother other troops in Johannesburg and Cape Town, before returning to Australia in 1924.

Here she performed in Brisbane in the musical Crackers, where she discovered the director Charles Chauvel, who cast her for the movie Greenhide and married in 1927. The following year she went with her husband to America where he performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles. After his unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in Hollywood, both returned to Australia.

Here she only appeared occasionally on the stage, but worked in seven films with her ​​husband as an actress, co-author and a producer of, including In the Wake of the Bounty (1933 ) and Jedda ( 1955). During the Second World War, the pair made ​​documentary, 1956-57 was the TV series Walkabout for the BBC.

After her husband's death in 1959 Chauvel collected copies of his films for the National Film Archive. She was active as Vice President and Patron of the Royal New South Wales Institution for Deaf & Blind Children and the British Welfare Foundation Barnardo's. In 1973, she published her autobiography, My Life with Charles Chauvel.

Swell

• Chauvel, Elsa (1898 - 1983) Australian Dictionary of Biography at
• Elsa Chauvel at the Internet Movie Database (English)

• Theater actors
• Actor
• Born in 1898
• Died in 1983
• Woman