Elsa Chauvel
Writer
- Born
- February 10, 1898
- Died
- August 22, 1983 (age 85)
- From
- Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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…
