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Aliases: Elizabeth Risden , Elizabeth Risdon , Elizabeth Evans

Gender: Female

Place of birth: London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 67

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Make Way for Tomorrow
Average
8

Make Way for Tomorrow

(1937) Cora Payne
High Sierra
Average
7

High Sierra

(1941) Ma
The Roaring Twenties
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7

The Roaring Twenties

(1939) Mrs. Sherman
Random Harvest
Average
7

Random Harvest

(1942) Mrs. Lloyd
Dead End
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7

Dead End

(1937) Mrs. Connell
Reap the Wild Wind
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6

Reap the Wild Wind

(1942) Mrs. Claiborne
Tall in the Saddle
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7

Tall in the Saddle

(1944) Miss Elizabeth Martin
Crime and Punishment
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7

Crime and Punishment

(1935) Mrs. Raskolnikov

Acting

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

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