Elisabeth Risdon Net Worth

Elisabeth Risdon Net Worth is
$3 Million

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.

Date Of BirthApril 26, 1887
Died1958-12-20
Place Of BirthLondon, England, UK
Height5' 4½" (1.64 m)
Weight110 pounds
ProfessionActress, Soundtrack
SpouseGeorge Loane Tucker
Star SignTaurus
#Fact
1Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
2Appeared twice with Irene Dunne: "Theodora goes wild" (1936) and "Life with father" (1947).
3Starred 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.
4After her death in 1958, her body was donated to medical science.
5Made her Broadway debut in 1912 with "Fanny's First Play."
6Initially a student instructor at London's Academy of Dramatic Art.
7This 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

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Ford Television Theatre1952-1957TV SeriesAunt Abby / Mrs. Crumpler / Mrs. Kelton
Ethel Barrymore Theater1956TV Series
Damon Runyon Theater1955TV Series
Treasury Men in Action1955TV Series
The Whistler1954TV SeriesMrs. Jaeger
Schlitz Playhouse1953TV Series
Scaramouche1952Isabelle de Valmorin
It's a Big Country: An American Anthology1951Diner on Train (uncredited)
Bannerline1951Mrs. Margaret Trimble
The Bigelow Theatre1950-1951TV Series
In Old Amarillo1951Granny Adams
My True Story1951Mme. Rousseau
The Milkman1950Mrs. Laura Carter
Bunco Squad1950Jessica Royce
Hills of Oklahoma1950Kate Carney
Sierra1950Aunt Susan
The Secret Fury1950Dr. Twining
Guilty of Treason1950Mother Mindszenty
Down Dakota Way1949Dolly Paxton
Every Girl Should Be Married1948Mary Nolan
Sealed Verdict1948Mrs. Hockland
Bodyguard1948Gene Dysen
The Bride Goes Wild1948Mrs. Carruthers
High Wall1947Mrs. Kenet
Mourning Becomes Electra1947Mrs. Hills
Life with Father1947Mrs. Whitehead
The Romance of Rosy Ridge1947Emily Baggett
The Egg and I1947Betty's Mother
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim1947Mrs. Prichard
Roll on Texas Moon1946Cactus Kate Taylor
Lover Come Back1946'Ma' Williams
The Walls Came Tumbling Down1946Catherine Walsh
They Made Me a Killer1946'Ma' Conley (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Fighting Guardsman1946Mme. de Montrevel (uncredited)
Mama Loves Papa1945Jessie Todd
The Unseen1945Mrs. Norris
A Song for Miss Julie1945Mrs. Ambrose Charteris
Grissly's Millions1945Leona Palmor
Blonde Fever1944Mrs. Talford
Tall in the Saddle1944Miss Elizabeth Martin
In the Meantime, Darling1944Mrs. Helen Corkery
The Canterville Ghost1944Mrs. Polverdine
Weird Woman1944Grace Gunnison
Lost Angel1943Mrs. Pringle
Higher and Higher1943Mrs. Georgia Keating
Never a Dull Moment1943Mrs. Schuyler Manning III
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event1943Aunt Della Lindsay
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday1943Louise Holliday
Journey for Margaret1942Mrs. Bailey
Random Harvest1942Mrs. Lloyd
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant1942Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost1942Aunt Della Lindsay
I Live on Danger1942Mrs. Morrell
Are Husbands Necessary?1942Mrs. Westwood
Reap the Wild Wind1942Mrs. Claiborne
Mexican Spitfire at Sea1942Aunt Della Lindsay
The Lady Is Willing1942Mrs. Cummings
The Man Who Returned to Life1942Minerva Sunday
Jail House Blues1942Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
Paris Calling1941Madame Jennetier
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby1941Aunt Della
At the Stroke of Twelve1941ShortAbigail Osley, aka The Old Doll
Footlight Fever1941Aunt Hattie Drake
Mr. Dynamite1941Achilles
Nice Girl?1941Martha Peasley
High Sierra1941Ma (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Let's Make Music1941Malvina Adams
Mexican Spitfire Out West1940Aunt Della Lindsay
Slightly Tempted1940Ethelreda Knox
The Howards of Virginia1940Aunt Clarissa (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot1940Agatha
Saturday's Children1940Mrs. Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me1940Minerva
Honeymoon Deferred1940Sarah Frome
Abe Lincoln in Illinois1940Sarah Lincoln
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk1940Jury Member (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Mexican Spitfire1940Aunt Della Lindsay
The Roaring Twenties1939Mrs. Sherman (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Disputed Passage1939Mrs. Cunningham
Full Confession1939Norah O'Keefe
The Forgotten Woman1939Margaret Burke
Five Came Back1939Martha Spengler
The Girl from Mexico1939Aunt Della Lindsay
Sorority House1939Mrs. Scott
The Man Who Dared1939Jessie Carter (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1939Widow Douglass (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Great Man Votes1939Phoebe Ainslee
Tom Sawyer, Detective1938Aunt Sally
Girls on Probation1938Kate Heath
The Affairs of Annabel1938Mrs. Fletcher
Cowboy from Brooklyn1938Mrs. Jordan (as Elizabeth Risdon)
My Bill1938Aunt Caroline
Mad About Music1938Annette Fusenot
Mannequin1937Mrs.Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Dead End1937Mrs. Connell
They Won't Forget1937Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Make Way for Tomorrow1937Cora Payne
Mountain Justice1937Meg Harkins (as Elizabeth Risdon)
The Woman I Love1937Mme. Herbillion
Theodora Goes Wild1936Aunt Mary
Craig's Wife1936Mrs. Landreth
The Final Hour1936Fortune Teller
The King Steps Out1936Grand Duchess Sofia
Don't Gamble with Love1936Grace
Lady of Secrets1936Mrs. Emily Whittaker
Crime and Punishment1935Mrs. Raskolnikov
Guard That Girl1935Aunt Catherine
A Star Over Night1919Short
The Mother of Dartmoor1917Avesa Pomeroy
Smith1917Smith
Mother Love1916Mary
The Manxman1916Kate Gregeen
A Mother's Influence1916ShortAvesa Pomeroy
The Princess of Happy Chance1916Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden
The Hypocrites1916Rachel Neve
Desperation1916Katherine Crichton
Esther1916ShortEsther
Meg the Lady1916Lady Brisby
A Will of Her Own1915Isabel Stanton
Charity Ann1915Ann Charity
Fine Feathers1915/IIMeg Roberts
Love in a Wood1915Rosiland
The Christian1915Gloria Quayle
Home1915Joan Bicester
Grip1915ShortMargaret Eden
Another Man's Wife1915ShortThe Wife
Her Nameless Child1915Phyllis / Alice Ford
Florence Nightingale1915Florence Nightingale
From Shopgirl to Duchess1915Sylvia Gray
London's Yellow Peril1915ShortRuth Graham
Midshipman Easy1915ShortDon's Daughter
Gilbert Gets Tiger-Itis1915ShortMrs. Gilbert
Honeymoon for Three1915Molly Van Dam
There's Good in Everyone1915ShortBeatrice Maybrook
The Idol of Paris1914Flare-Flare
The Sound of Her Voice1914ShortViolet Morne
Her Luck in London1914Nellie Harbourne
It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary1914ShortMolly Molloy
The Courage of a Coward1914ShortThe Wife
The Bells of Rheims1914ShortNurse
The Price of Justice1914ShortNancy Earle
The Loss of the Birkenhead1914Deborah
The Suicide Club1914Zephyrine
The Battling British1914ShortBlack-eyed Susan
Inquisitive Ike1914ShortDora
The Cup Final Mystery1914ShortLizzie Keen
The Finger of Destiny1914ShortDoris
Maria Marten, or: The Murder in the Red Barn1913ShortMaria Marten
Bridegrooms Beware1913ShortThe Bride

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Let's Make Music1941"Fight on for Newton High" / performer: "Fight on for Newton High"

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Footlights Theater1952TV Series

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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