Elisabeth Risdon
Acting
🎂 1887-04-26
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.
Cast credits(114)
Aunt Clarissa
1940
Sarah Frome
1940
Ma
1941
Mrs. Schuyler Manning III
1943
Isabelle de Valmorin
1952
Mrs. Sherman
1939
Mrs. Lloyd
1942
Aunt Della
1941
Diner on Train (uncredited)
1951
Mrs. Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
1938
Mme. de Montrevel
1945
Mrs. Connell
1937
Miss Elizabeth Martin
1944
Mrs. Claiborne
1942
Mrs. Norris
1945
Mrs. Hills
1947
Margaret Trimble
1951
Aunt Della Lindsay
1940
Abigail Osley, aka The Old Doll
1941
Cora Payne
1937
Aunt Mary
1936
Betty's Mother
1947
Mme. Rousseau
1951
rs. Carruthers
1948
Mrs. Carruthers
1948
Jessica Royce
1950
Aunt Susan
1950
Minerva Sunday
1942
Mrs. Kenet
1947
Phoebe Ainslee
1939
Mrs. Talford
1944
Widow Douglass
1939
Ethelreda Knox
1940
Mrs. Bailey
1942
Mary Nolan
1948
Gene Dysen
1948
Della Lindsay
1939
Leona Palmor
1945
Mrs. Cunningham
1939
Mrs. Harkins
1937
1943
Dolly Paxton
1949
Ma Williams
1946
'Ma' Williams
1946
Aunt Della Lindsay
1942
Mrs. Landreth
1936
Martha Spengler
1939
Mrs. Carter
1950
Malvina Adams
1941
Granny Adams
1951
Mrs. Polverdine
1944
Mrs. Jordan
1938
Emily Baggett
1947
Aunt Della Lindsay
1943
Mrs. Raskolnikov
1935
Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
1937
Kate Heath
1938
Aunt Caroline
1938
Mrs. Hockland
1948
Grand Duchess Sofia
1936
Mrs. Scott
1939
Dr. R.W. Roberts
1950
Margaret Burke
1939
Madame Jennetier
1941
Sarah Lincoln
1940
Mrs. Whitehead
1947
Norah O'Keefe
1939
Fortune Teller
1936
'Ma' Conley
1946
Mrs. Amanda Pritchard
1947
Martha Farnum
1952
Mrs. Cummings
1942
Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
1942
Aunt Catherine
1935
Jury Member
1940
Helen Corkery
1944
Marrtha Peasley
1941
Catherine Walsh
1946
Mrs. Pringle
1943
Mrs. Ambrose Charteris
1945
Mrs. Fletcher
1938
Dean Grace Gunnison
1944
Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
1941
Cactus Kate Taylor
1946
Aunt Sally Phelps
1938
1938
Grace
1936
Minerva
1940
Aunt Della Lindsay
1940
Jessie Todd
1945
Mrs. Westwood
1942
Mme. Herbillion
1937
Kate Carney
1950
Jessie Carter
1939
Mrs. Morrell
1942
Georgia Keating
1943
Aunt Della Lindsay
1942
Aunt Della Lindsay
1942
Rosiland
1915
Nellie Harbourne
1914
Aunt Hattie Drake
1941
Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
1940
1914
Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden
1916
Mrs. Emily Whittaker
1936
Avesa Pomeroy
1916
Maria Marten
1913
Zephyrine
1914
Black-Eyed Susan
1914
Dora
1914
Florence Nightingale
1915
Bride
1913
Nancy Earle
1914
Flare-Flare
1914