Elisabeth Risdon Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Elisabeth Risdon (26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1952. An attractive beauty in her youth she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts.She was born Elizabeth Evans in London, England. In 1918 she graduated from the London Royal Academy of arts 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 like 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.Risdon died in December 1958 in St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California from a cerebral haemorrhage. Her body was donated to medical science.
Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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Appeared twice with Irene Dunne: "Theodora goes wild" (1936) and "Life with father" (1947).
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Starred in English silent films between 1913 and 1917. From 1918, worked in the United States, becoming a member of the Theatre Guild. In Hollywood from 1935, usually seen as cranky or narrow-minded aunt or mother.
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After her death in 1958, her body was donated to medical science.
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Made her Broadway debut in 1912 with "Fanny's First Play."
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Initially a student instructor at London's Academy of Dramatic Art.
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This woman's composure and customary dignity are distinctly ruffled when she is literally spanked on her bottom by a grizzly 'George 'Gabby' Hayes' in the John Wayne 1944 mystery-western, Tall in the Saddle (1944).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Ford Television Theatre
1952-1957
TV Series
Aunt Abby / Mrs. Crumpler / Mrs. Kelton
Ethel Barrymore Theater
1956
TV Series
Damon Runyon Theater
1955
TV Series
Treasury Men in Action
1955
TV Series
The Whistler
1954
TV Series
Mrs. Jaeger
Schlitz Playhouse
1953
TV Series
Scaramouche
1952
Isabelle de Valmorin
It's a Big Country: An American Anthology
1951
Diner on Train (uncredited)
Bannerline
1951
Mrs. Margaret Trimble
The Bigelow Theatre
1950-1951
TV Series
In Old Amarillo
1951
Granny Adams
My True Story
1951
Mme. Rousseau
The Milkman
1950
Mrs. Laura Carter
Bunco Squad
1950
Jessica Royce
Hills of Oklahoma
1950
Kate Carney
Sierra
1950
Aunt Susan
The Secret Fury
1950
Dr. Twining
Guilty of Treason
1950
Mother Mindszenty
Down Dakota Way
1949
Dolly Paxton
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
Mary Nolan
Sealed Verdict
1948
Mrs. Hockland
Bodyguard
1948
Gene Dysen
The Bride Goes Wild
1948
Mrs. Carruthers
High Wall
1947
Mrs. Kenet
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Mrs. Hills
Life with Father
1947
Mrs. Whitehead
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
Emily Baggett
The Egg and I
1947
Betty's Mother
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947
Mrs. Prichard
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
Cactus Kate Taylor
Lover Come Back
1946
'Ma' Williams
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
Catherine Walsh
They Made Me a Killer
1946
'Ma' Conley (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Fighting Guardsman
1946
Mme. de Montrevel (uncredited)
Mama Loves Papa
1945
Jessie Todd
The Unseen
1945
Mrs. Norris
A Song for Miss Julie
1945
Mrs. Ambrose Charteris
Grissly's Millions
1945
Leona Palmor
Blonde Fever
1944
Mrs. Talford
Tall in the Saddle
1944
Miss Elizabeth Martin
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
Mrs. Helen Corkery
The Canterville Ghost
1944
Mrs. Polverdine
Weird Woman
1944
Grace Gunnison
Lost Angel
1943
Mrs. Pringle
Higher and Higher
1943
Mrs. Georgia Keating
Never a Dull Moment
1943
Mrs. Schuyler Manning III
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943
Aunt Della Lindsay
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Louise Holliday
Journey for Margaret
1942
Mrs. Bailey
Random Harvest
1942
Mrs. Lloyd
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
1942
Aunt Della Lindsay
I Live on Danger
1942
Mrs. Morrell
Are Husbands Necessary?
1942
Mrs. Westwood
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Mrs. Claiborne
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942
Aunt Della Lindsay
The Lady Is Willing
1942
Mrs. Cummings
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
Minerva Sunday
Jail House Blues
1942
Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
Paris Calling
1941
Madame Jennetier
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941
Aunt Della
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
Short
Abigail Osley, aka The Old Doll
Footlight Fever
1941
Aunt Hattie Drake
Mr. Dynamite
1941
Achilles
Nice Girl?
1941
Martha Peasley
High Sierra
1941
Ma (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Let's Make Music
1941
Malvina Adams
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
Aunt Della Lindsay
Slightly Tempted
1940
Ethelreda Knox
The Howards of Virginia
1940
Aunt Clarissa (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
1940
Agatha
Saturday's Children
1940
Mrs. Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me
1940
Minerva
Honeymoon Deferred
1940
Sarah Frome
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Sarah Lincoln
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
Jury Member (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Mexican Spitfire
1940
Aunt Della Lindsay
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Mrs. Sherman (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Disputed Passage
1939
Mrs. Cunningham
Full Confession
1939
Norah O'Keefe
The Forgotten Woman
1939
Margaret Burke
Five Came Back
1939
Martha Spengler
The Girl from Mexico
1939
Aunt Della Lindsay
Sorority House
1939
Mrs. Scott
The Man Who Dared
1939
Jessie Carter (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
Widow Douglass (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Great Man Votes
1939
Phoebe Ainslee
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
Aunt Sally
Girls on Probation
1938
Kate Heath
The Affairs of Annabel
1938
Mrs. Fletcher
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938
Mrs. Jordan (as Elizabeth Risdon)
My Bill
1938
Aunt Caroline
Mad About Music
1938
Annette Fusenot
Mannequin
1937
Mrs.Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Dead End
1937
Mrs. Connell
They Won't Forget
1937
Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Cora Payne
Mountain Justice
1937
Meg Harkins (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Woman I Love
1937
Mme. Herbillion
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
Aunt Mary
Craig's Wife
1936
Mrs. Landreth
The Final Hour
1936
Fortune Teller
The King Steps Out
1936
Grand Duchess Sofia
Don't Gamble with Love
1936
Grace
Lady of Secrets
1936
Mrs. Emily Whittaker
Crime and Punishment
1935
Mrs. Raskolnikov
Guard That Girl
1935
Aunt Catherine
A Star Over Night
1919
Short
The Mother of Dartmoor
1917
Avesa Pomeroy
Smith
1917
Smith
Mother Love
1916
Mary
The Manxman
1916
Kate Gregeen
A Mother's Influence
1916
Short
Avesa Pomeroy
The Princess of Happy Chance
1916
Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden
The Hypocrites
1916
Rachel Neve
Desperation
1916
Katherine Crichton
Esther
1916
Short
Esther
Meg the Lady
1916
Lady Brisby
A Will of Her Own
1915
Isabel Stanton
Charity Ann
1915
Ann Charity
Fine Feathers
1915/II
Meg Roberts
Love in a Wood
1915
Rosiland
The Christian
1915
Gloria Quayle
Home
1915
Joan Bicester
Grip
1915
Short
Margaret Eden
Another Man's Wife
1915
Short
The Wife
Her Nameless Child
1915
Phyllis / Alice Ford
Florence Nightingale
1915
Florence Nightingale
From Shopgirl to Duchess
1915
Sylvia Gray
London's Yellow Peril
1915
Short
Ruth Graham
Midshipman Easy
1915
Short
Don's Daughter
Gilbert Gets Tiger-Itis
1915
Short
Mrs. Gilbert
Honeymoon for Three
1915
Molly Van Dam
There's Good in Everyone
1915
Short
Beatrice Maybrook
The Idol of Paris
1914
Flare-Flare
The Sound of Her Voice
1914
Short
Violet Morne
Her Luck in London
1914
Nellie Harbourne
It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary
1914
Short
Molly Molloy
The Courage of a Coward
1914
Short
The Wife
The Bells of Rheims
1914
Short
Nurse
The Price of Justice
1914
Short
Nancy Earle
The Loss of the Birkenhead
1914
Deborah
The Suicide Club
1914
Zephyrine
The Battling British
1914
Short
Black-eyed Susan
Inquisitive Ike
1914
Short
Dora
The Cup Final Mystery
1914
Short
Lizzie Keen
The Finger of Destiny
1914
Short
Doris
Maria Marten, or: The Murder in the Red Barn
1913
Short
Maria Marten
Bridegrooms Beware
1913
Short
The Bride
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Let's Make Music
1941
"Fight on for Newton High" / performer: "Fight on for Newton High"