Elisabeth Risdon
Age: N/A | From: London, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday:
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
(1937) Cora Payne
High Sierra
(1941) Ma
The Roaring Twenties
(1939) Mrs. Sherman
Random Harvest
(1942) Mrs. Lloyd
Dead End
(1937) Mrs. Connell
Reap the Wild Wind
(1942) Mrs. Claiborne
Tall in the Saddle
(1944) Miss Elizabeth Martin
Crime and Punishment
(1935) Mrs. RaskolnikovActing
| 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 |
