Elisabeth Risdon
Biography
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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.
Acting (103 movies)
Random Harvest
1942
Mannequin
1938
High Wall
1947
High Sierra
1941
Dead End
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Life with Father
1947
Mama Loves Papa
1945
They Made Me a Killer
1946
Higher and Higher
1943
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Bodyguard
1948
Crime and Punishment
1935
The Unseen
1945
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Bunco Squad
1950
Weird Woman
1944
Five Came Back
1939
They Won't Forget
1937
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
The Canterville Ghost
1944
The Howards of Virginia
1940
Mr. Dynamite
1941
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
The Secret Fury
1950
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
Sierra
1950
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947
Mexican Spitfire
1940
Jail House Blues
1942
Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
1913
Saturday's Children
1940
Footlight Fever
1941
Let's Make Music
1941
The King Steps Out
1936
Hills of Oklahoma
1950
Girls on Probation
1938
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942
Bannerline
1951
Lover Come Back
1946
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941
A Song for Miss Julie
1945
Are Husbands Necessary?
1942
Mountain Justice
1937
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
I Live on Danger
1942
The Woman I Love
1937
The Girl from Mexico
1939
Guard That Girl
1935
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
1942
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
The Great Man Votes
1939
The Affairs of Annabel
1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938
The Forgotten Woman
1939
Full Confession
1939
Craig's Wife
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
Scaramouche
1952
Slightly Tempted
1940
The Man Who Dared
1939
Sorority House
1939
My Bill
1938
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
The Fighting Guardsman
1945
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
Tall in the Saddle
1944
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
1940
Never a Dull Moment
1943
Grissly's Millions
1945
The Bride Goes Wild
1948
The Bride Goes Wild
1948
Journey for Margaret
1942
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
Nice Girl?
1941
Blonde Fever
1944
Down Dakota Way
1949
In Old Amarillo
1951
Don't Gamble with Love
1936
My True Story
1951
Disputed Passage
1939
Lost Angel
1943
The Mother of Dartmoor
1916
Honeymoon Deferred
1940
The Milkman
1950
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
Paris Calling
1941
The Egg and I
1947
Sealed Verdict
1948
The Suicide Club
1914
Lady of Secrets
1936
The Lady Is Willing
1942
The Final Hour
1936
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