Elisabeth Risdon
Acting
Born 1887-04-26
Died 1958-12-20
London, England, UK
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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.
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59 credits
Scaramouche
High Sierra
Tall in the Saddle
Reap the Wild Wind
The Roaring Twenties
Dead End
Random Harvest
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Florence Nightingale
It's a Big Country
Life with Father
The Egg and I
The Secret Fury
Every Girl Should Be Married
High Wall
Paris Calling
Sierra
Mama Loves Papa
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Grissly's Millions
Crossroads - U.S.A.
Craig's Wife
Nice Girl?
The Howards of Virginia
Mourning Becomes Electra
Five Came Back
Crime and Punishment
Bodyguard
The Milkman
The Bride Goes Wild
The Unseen
The Lady Is Willing
Bunco Squad
The Forgotten Woman
Higher and Higher
Bannerline
The Canterville Ghost
They Won't Forget
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
My Bill
Mountain Justice
In Old Amarillo
Theodora Goes Wild
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Mannequin
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
The Suicide Club
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
The Girl from Mexico
Cowboy from Brooklyn
The Princess of Happy Chance
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Full Confession
In the Meantime, Darling
Jail House Blues
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
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