Elisabeth Risdon
Known for: Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elisabeth Risdon (born Daisy Cartwright Risdon; 26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts. Born in London, England, Risdon graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in 1918 with high honours. She attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw and was cast as the lead in his biggest plays. Besides her performances for Shaw, she was leading lady for actors including George Arliss, Otis Skinner, and William Faversham. She was also under contract to the Theatre Guild for many years. In later years, she taught drama to patients at a veterans administration hospital near her Brentwood home. She was married to the prolific silent film director George Loane Tucker who left her a widow in 1921. She later married actor Brandon Evans, who died in April 1958. She was the great-aunt of actress Wendy Barrie-Wilson. Risdon died in December 1958 in St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California from a cerebral haemorrhage. Her body was donated to medical science.
Filmography
Film
Scaramouche
Isabelle de Valmorin
1952
Film
Tall in the Saddle
Miss Elizabeth Martin
1944
Film
The Roaring Twenties
Mrs. Sherman
1939
Film
High Sierra
Ma
1941
Film
Make Way for Tomorrow
Cora Payne
1937
Film
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Widow Douglass
1939
Film
Dead End
Mrs. Connell
1937
Film
The Bride Goes Wild
Mrs. Carruthers
1948
Film
The Bride Goes Wild
rs. Carruthers
1948
Film
Random Harvest
Mrs. Lloyd
1942
Film
The Egg and I
Betty's Mother
1947
Film
Life with Father
Mrs. Whitehead
1947
Film
Nice Girl?
Marrtha Peasley
1941
Film
Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Claiborne
1942
Film
Crime and Punishment
Mrs. Raskolnikov
1935
Film
Mama Loves Papa
Jessie Todd
1945
Film
The Secret Fury
Dr. R.W. Roberts
1950
Film
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1915
Film
Grissly's Millions
Leona Palmor
1945
Film
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Mrs. Amanda Pritchard
1947
Film
Bodyguard
Gene Dysen
1948
Film
Bannerline
Margaret Trimble
1951
Film
High Wall
Mrs. Kenet
1947
Film
It's a Big Country
Diner on Train (uncredited)
1951
Film
Paris Calling
Madame Jennetier
1941
Beautiful Jim
Nancy Earle
1914
Crossroads - U.S.A.
Martha Farnum
1952
Film
Every Girl Should Be Married
Mary Nolan
1948
Film
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Catherine Walsh
1946
Film
The Howards of Virginia
Aunt Clarissa
1940
Film
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Polverdine
1944
Film
The Lady Is Willing
Mrs. Cummings
1942
Film
Sierra
Aunt Susan
1950
Film
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Film
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mrs. Hills
1947
Film
Jail House Blues
Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
1942
Film
The Forgotten Woman
Margaret Burke
1939
Film
Don't Gamble with Love
Grace
1936
Film
The Suicide Club
Zephyrine
1914
Film
Craig's Wife
Mrs. Landreth
1936
Inquisitive Ike
Dora
1914
Film
My True Story
Mme. Rousseau
1951
Film
At the Stroke of Twelve
Abigail Ardsley, aka The Old Doll
1941
The Princess of Happy Chance
Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden
1916
Film
Weird Woman
Dean Grace Gunnison
1944
Film
The Unseen
Mrs. Norris
1945
Film
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Sarah Lincoln
1940
Film
Five Came Back
Martha Spengler
1939
Film
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Emily Baggett
1947
Film
Higher and Higher
Georgia Keating
1943
Film
Guard That Girl
Aunt Catherine
1935
Film
Mountain Justice
Mrs. Harkins
1937
Bridegrooms Beware!
Bride
1913
Film
My Bill
Aunt Caroline
1938
Film
The Man Who Returned to Life
Minerva Sunday
1942
Film
Theodora Goes Wild
Aunt Mary
1936
Film
Journey for Margaret
Mrs. Bailey
1942
Film
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Minerva
1940
Film
Sorority House
Mrs. Scott
1939
Film
Down Dakota Way
Dolly Paxton
1949
Film
Mannequin
Mrs. Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
1938
Film
The Milkman
Mrs. Carter
1950
Film
The Affairs of Annabel
Mrs. Fletcher
1938
Film
The King Steps Out
Grand Duchess Sofia
1936
Film
Bunco Squad
Jessica Royce
1950
Film
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
Aunt Della Lindsay
1943
Film
The Woman I Love
Mme. Herbillion
1937
Maria Marten or The Mystery of the Red Barn
Maria Marten
1913
Film
The Great Man Votes
Phoebe Ainslee
1939
Film
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Jury Member
1940
Film
I Live on Danger
Mrs. Morrell
1942
Film
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Aunt Della Lindsay
1942
Film
The Mother of Dartmoor
Avesa Pomeroy
1916
Film
The Girl from Mexico
Della Lindsay
1939
Film
Let's Make Music
Malvina Adams
1941
Film
Lost Angel
Mrs. Pringle
1943
Film
Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
Maria Marten
1913
Film
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Mrs. Jordan
1938
Film
The Fighting Guardsman
Mme. de Montrevel
1945
Film
Honeymoon Deferred
Sarah Frome
1940
Film
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Aunt Della
1941
Film
Girls on Probation
Kate Heath
1938
Film
They Won't Forget
Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
1937
Film
In Old Amarillo
Granny Adams
1951
Her Luck in London
Nellie Harbourne
1914
Love in a Wood
Rosiland
1915
Film
Footlight Fever
Aunt Hattie Drake
1941
Film
Sealed Verdict
Mrs. Hockland
1948
Film
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Aunt Della Lindsay
1942
Film
They Made Me a Killer
'Ma' Conley
1946
Film
A Song for Miss Julie
Mrs. Ambrose Charteris
1945
Film
Blonde Fever
Mrs. Talford
1944
Film
Are Husbands Necessary?
Mrs. Westwood
1942
Film
Lover Come Back
Ma Williams
1946
Film
Lover Come Back
'Ma' Williams
1946
Film
Mad About Music
1938
Film
In the Meantime, Darling
Helen Corkery
1944
Film
The Man Who Dared
Jessie Carter
1939
Film
Full Confession
Norah O'Keefe
1939
Film
The Final Hour
Fortune Teller
1936
Film
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Aunt Della Lindsay
1940
Film
Hills of Oklahoma
Kate Carney
1950
Film
Roll on Texas Moon
Cactus Kate Taylor
1946
Film
Mr. Dynamite
Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
1941
Film
Mexican Spitfire
Aunt Della Lindsay
1940
Film
Disputed Passage
Mrs. Cunningham
1939
Film
Saturday's Children
Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
1940
Black-Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susan
1914
Film
Never a Dull Moment
Mrs. Schuyler Manning III
1943
Film
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Aunt Della Lindsay
1942
Film
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Aunt Sally Phelps
1938
Film
Slightly Tempted
Ethelreda Knox
1940
Film
Lady of Secrets
Mrs. Emily Whittaker
1936
The Idol of Paris
Flare-Flare
1914
The Cup Final Mystery
1914