Cast
Elisabeth Risdon
Acting
Cast
Elisabeth Risdon
Known for
Acting
Born
1887-04-26
From
London, England, UK
Died
1958-12-20
Also known as Elizabeth Risden, Elizabeth Risdon , Elizabeth Evans
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.
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Claiborne
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Scaramouche
as Isabelle de Valmorin
★7.1
MOVIE1937
Dead End
as Mrs. Connell
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Tall in the Saddle
as Miss Elizabeth Martin
MOVIE1915
Florence Nightingale
as Florence Nightingale
★7.5
MOVIE1939
The Roaring Twenties
as Mrs. Sherman
★7.1
MOVIE1941
High Sierra
as Ma
★7.3
MOVIE1942
Random Harvest
as Mrs. Lloyd
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Crime and Punishment
as Mrs. Raskolnikov
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Jail House Blues
as Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
★6.7
MOVIE1948
The Bride Goes Wild
as rs. Carruthers
★6.7
MOVIE1948
The Bride Goes Wild
as Mrs. Carruthers
★6.7
MOVIE1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Widow Douglass
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Forgotten Woman
as Margaret Burke
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
as Cora Payne
★6.1
MOVIE1948
Bodyguard
as Gene Dysen
★6.8
MOVIE1940
The Howards of Virginia
as Aunt Clarissa
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Nice Girl?
as Marrtha Peasley
★10.0
MOVIE1945
Mama Loves Papa
as Jessie Todd
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Grissly's Millions
as Leona Palmor
MOVIE1915
Love in a Wood
as Rosiland
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Five Came Back
as Martha Spengler
★8.3
MOVIE1949
Down Dakota Way
as Dolly Paxton
MOVIE1913
Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
as Maria Marten
MOVIE1914
Beautiful Jim
as Nancy Earle
★5.9
MOVIE1951
It's a Big Country
as Diner on Train (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1950
The Secret Fury
as Dr. R.W. Roberts
★6.1
MOVIE1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Mrs. Hills
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Sarah Lincoln
★6.0
MOVIE1948
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Mary Nolan
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Paris Calling
as Madame Jennetier
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Craig's Wife
as Mrs. Landreth
★5.4
MOVIE1950
Sierra
as Aunt Susan
★6.7
MOVIE1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
★7.1
MOVIE1947
The Egg and I
as Betty's Mother
★6.9
MOVIE1944
The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. Polverdine
MOVIE1952
Crossroads - U.S.A.
as Martha Farnum
★6.4
MOVIE1947
High Wall
as Mrs. Kenet
★6.6
MOVIE1936
Theodora Goes Wild
as Aunt Mary
★3.9
MOVIE1944
Blonde Fever
as Mrs. Talford
MOVIE1913
Bridegrooms Beware!
as Bride
★6.5
MOVIE1942
The Lady Is Willing
as Mrs. Cummings
★5.4
MOVIE1938
The Affairs of Annabel
as Mrs. Fletcher
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Milkman
as Mrs. Carter
★4.7
MOVIE1945
The Unseen
as Mrs. Norris
★6.7
MOVIE1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Emily Baggett
★5.9
MOVIE1937
They Won't Forget
as Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Mountain Justice
as Mrs. Harkins
MOVIE1916
The Princess of Happy Chance
as Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden
MOVIE1914
The Suicide Club
as Zephyrine
★6.3
MOVIE1943
Higher and Higher
as Georgia Keating
MOVIE1914
Inquisitive Ike
as Dora
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Saturday's Children
as Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
★5.4
MOVIE1942
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
as Aunt Della Lindsay
MOVIE1916
The Mother of Dartmoor
as Avesa Pomeroy
★5.0
MOVIE1913
Maria Marten or The Mystery of the Red Barn
as Maria Marten
★5.7
MOVIE1946
They Made Me a Killer
as 'Ma' Conley
★6.8
MOVIE1951
Bannerline
as Margaret Trimble
★5.1
MOVIE1939
The Girl from Mexico
as Della Lindsay
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Are Husbands Necessary?
as Mrs. Westwood
★6.7
MOVIE1947
Life with Father
as Mrs. Whitehead
★6.2
MOVIE1938
Girls on Probation
as Kate Heath
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Disputed Passage
as Mrs. Cunningham
★5.0
MOVIE1940
Mexican Spitfire
as Aunt Della Lindsay
★8.8
MOVIE1947
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
as Mrs. Amanda Pritchard
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Roll on Texas Moon
as Cactus Kate Taylor
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Guard That Girl
as Aunt Catherine
★6.1
MOVIE1942
I Live on Danger
as Mrs. Morrell
★6.0
MOVIE1941
At the Stroke of Twelve
as Abigail Ardsley, aka The Old Doll
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Sealed Verdict
as Mrs. Hockland
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Mad About Music
★6.2
MOVIE1946
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
as Catherine Walsh
★6.6
MOVIE1951
My True Story
as Mme. Rousseau
★8.5
MOVIE1945
The Fighting Guardsman
as Mme. de Montrevel
★6.8
MOVIE1944
In the Meantime, Darling
as Helen Corkery
★9.0
MOVIE1941
Mr. Dynamite
as Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
as Minerva
★6.4
MOVIE1939
The Great Man Votes
as Phoebe Ainslee
★7.1
MOVIE1946
Lover Come Back
as Ma Williams
★7.1
MOVIE1946
Lover Come Back
as 'Ma' Williams
MOVIE1914
Her Luck in London
as Nellie Harbourne
★6.1
MOVIE1950
Bunco Squad
as Jessica Royce
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Hills of Oklahoma
as Kate Carney
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
as Mrs. Jordan
★5.3
MOVIE1940
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Jury Member
★7.3
MOVIE1939
Sorority House
as Mrs. Scott
★5.6
MOVIE1938
Tom Sawyer, Detective
as Aunt Sally Phelps
★5.6
MOVIE1939
Full Confession
as Norah O'Keefe
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Lost Angel
as Mrs. Pringle
★8.0
MOVIE1951
In Old Amarillo
as Granny Adams
★4.4
MOVIE1942
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
as Aunt Della Lindsay
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Weird Woman
as Dean Grace Gunnison
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Woman I Love
as Mme. Herbillion
★6.7
MOVIE1936
Lady of Secrets
as Mrs. Emily Whittaker
★4.6
MOVIE1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
as Aunt Della
★6.0
MOVIE1936
The King Steps Out
as Grand Duchess Sofia
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Don't Gamble with Love
as Grace
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Footlight Fever
as Aunt Hattie Drake
★7.3
MOVIE1942
The Man Who Returned to Life
as Minerva Sunday
★5.0
MOVIE1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Aunt Della Lindsay
★6.6
MOVIE1938
My Bill
as Aunt Caroline
★5.5
MOVIE1945
A Song for Miss Julie
as Mrs. Ambrose Charteris
★4.8
MOVIE1942
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
as Aunt Della Lindsay
MOVIE1914
Black-Eyed Susan
as Black-Eyed Susan
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Mannequin
as Mrs. Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
★6.7
MOVIE1942
Journey for Margaret
as Mrs. Bailey
★6.0
MOVIE1943
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
as Aunt Della Lindsay
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Man Who Dared
as Jessie Carter
★8.0
MOVIE1940
Slightly Tempted
as Ethelreda Knox
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Let's Make Music
as Malvina Adams
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Never a Dull Moment
as Mrs. Schuyler Manning III
MOVIE1914
The Cup Final Mystery
★8.0
MOVIE1940
Honeymoon Deferred
as Sarah Frome
MOVIE1914
The Idol of Paris
as Flare-Flare
★7.5
MOVIE1936
The Final Hour
as Fortune Teller