Elisabeth Risdon
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: April 26, 1887
Day of Death: December 20, 1958 (72 years old)
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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.
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Actor Mrs. Lloyd
Random Harvest
Actor Mrs. Claiborne
Reap the Wild Wind
Actor Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
Jail House Blues
Actor Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Actor Mrs. Westwood
Are Husbands Necessary?
Actor Mrs. Morrell
I Live on Danger
Actor Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Actor Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Actor Minerva Sunday
The Man Who Returned to Life
Actor Mrs. Bailey
Journey for Margaret
Actor Mrs. Cummings
The Lady Is Willing
1941
Actor Ma
High Sierra
Actor Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
Mr. Dynamite
Actor Aunt Hattie Drake
Footlight Fever
Actor Malvina Adams
Let's Make Music
Actor Aunt Della
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Actor Abigail Osley, aka The Old Doll
At the Stroke of Twelve
Actor Marrtha Peasley
Nice Girl?
Actor Madame Jennetier
Paris Calling
1940
Actor Sarah Lincoln
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Actor Aunt Clarissa
The Howards of Virginia
Actor Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire
Actor Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Saturday's Children
Actor Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Actor Ethelreda Knox
Slightly Tempted
Actor Jury Member
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Actor Minerva
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Actor Sarah Frome
Honeymoon Deferred
1939
Actor Mrs. Sherman
The Roaring Twenties
Actor Martha Spengler
Five Came Back
Actor Widow Douglass
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Actor Della Lindsay
The Girl from Mexico
Actor Phoebe Ainslee
The Great Man Votes
Actor Margaret Burke
The Forgotten Woman
Actor Norah O'Keefe
Full Confession
Actor Jessie Carter
The Man Who Dared
Actor Mrs. Scott
Sorority House
Actor Mrs. Cunningham
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