Elsa Chauvel

Elsa Chauvel

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...

Known For

Jedda

Writer

40,000 Horsemen

Screenplay

Sons of Matthew

Screenplay

Cast Credits

Greenhide

as Margery Paton

Crew Credits

Jedda

Writer

Sons of Matthew

Screenplay

40,000 Horsemen

Screenplay

Rangle River

Screenplay

Uncivilised

Assistant Director