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