Elisabeth Risdon

Elisabeth Risdon (born Daisy Cartwright Risdon; 26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in more than 140 films from 1913 to 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts.

Early life Risdon was born in London as Daisy Cartwright Risdon, the daughter of John Jenkins Risdon and Martha Harrop Risdon. and William Faversham. She was also under contract with the Theatre Guild for many years.

Risdon's film debut came in England, where she made 13 silent films. She came to the United States in 1912,

Her Broadway credits include Laburnum Grove (1935), Big Hearted Herbert (1934), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1933), For Services Rendered (1933), We Never Learn (1928), The Springboard (1927), Right You Are If You Think You Are (1927), The Silver Cord (1926), A Proud Woman (1926), Lovely Lady (1925), The Enchanted April (1925), Thrills (1925), Artistic Temperament (1924), Cock O' the Roost (1924), The Lady (1923), The Nightcap (1921), Heartbreak House (1920), Footloose (1920), Dear Brutus (1918), Humpty Dumpty (1918), Muggins (1918), Seven Days' Leave (1918), Misalliance (1917), The Morris Dance (1917), The Poetasters of Ispahan (1912), Beauty and the Jacobin (1912), and Fanny's First Play (1912).

Personal life In 1916, she married silent film director George Loane Tucker, who died in 1921. In 1938, she married actor Brandon Evans, who died in April 1958.

Death Risdon died in December 1958 in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Partial filmography

Maria Marten (1913 short) - Maria Marten The Suicide Club (1914) - Zephyrine The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914) - Deborah Her Luck in London (1914) - Nellie Harbourne The Idol of Paris (1914) - Flare-Flare Honeymoon for Three (1915) - Molly Van Dam Gilbert Gets Tiger-It is (1915 short) - Mrs. Gilbert From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915) - Sylvia Gray Florence Nightingale (1915) - Florence Nightingale Her Nameless Child (1915) - Phyllis / Alice Ford Home (1915) - Joan Bicester The Christian (1915) - Gloria Quayle Love in a Wood (1915) - Rosiland Fine Feathers (1915) - Meg Roberts Charity Ann (1915) - Ann Charity A Will of Her Own (1915) - Isabel Stanton Meg the Lady (1916) - Lady Brisby Esther (1916 short) - Esther Driven (1916) - Katherine Crichton The Hypocrites (1916) - Rachel Neve The Princess of Happy Chance (1916) - Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden The Manxman (1916) - Kate Gregeen Mother Love (1916) - Mary Smith (1917) - Smith The Mother of Dartmoor (1917) - Avesa Pomeroy Guard That Girl (1935) - Aunt Catherine Crime and Punishment (1935) - Mrs. Raskolnikov Lady of Secrets (1936) - Mrs. Emily Whittaker Don't Gamble with Love (1936) - Grace The King Steps Out (1936) - Grand Duchess Sofia The Final Hour (1936) - Fortune Teller Craig's Wife (1936) - Mrs. Landreth Theodora Goes Wild (1936) - Aunt Mary The Woman I Love (1937) - Mme. Herbillion Mountain Justice (1937) - Meg Harkins Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - Cora Payne They Won't Forget (1937) - Mrs. Hale Dead End (1937) - Mrs. Connell Mannequin (1937) - Mrs.Cassidy Mad About Music (1938) - Annette Fusenot My Bill (1938) - Aunt Caroline Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938) - Mrs. Jordan The Affairs of Annabel (1938) - Mrs. Fletcher Girls on Probation (1938) - Kate Heath Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938) - Aunt Sally The Great Man Votes (1939) - Phoebe Ainslee The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) - Widow Douglass The Man Who Dared (1939) - Jessie Carter Sorority House (1939) - Mrs. Scott The Girl from Mexico (1939) - Aunt Della Lindsay Five Came Back (1939) - Martha Spengler The Forgotten Woman (1939) - Margaret Burke Full Confession (1939) - Norah O'Keefe Disputed Passage (1939) - Mrs. Cunningham The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Mrs. Sherman Mexican Spitfire (1940) - Aunt Della Lindsay The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) - Jury Member Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) - Sarah Lincoln Honeymoon Deferred (1940) - Sarah Frome Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (film) (1940) - Minerva Saturday's Children (1940) - Mrs. Halevy Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot (1940) - Agatha The Howards of Virginia (1940) - Aunt Clarissa Slightly Tempted (1940) - Ethelreda Knox Let's Make Music (1941) - Malvina Adams High Sierra (1941) - Ma Nice Girl? (1941) - Martha Peasley Mr. Dynamite (1941) - Achilles Footlight Fever (1941) - Aunt Hattie Drake The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941) - Aunt Della Paris Calling (1941) - Madame Jennetier Jail House Blues (1942) - Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann The Man Who Returned to Life (1942) - Minerva Sunday The Lady Is Willing (1942) - Mrs. Cummings Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942) - Aunt Della Lindsay Reap the Wild Wind (1942) - Mrs. Claiborne Are Husbands Necessary? (1942) - Mrs. Westwood I Live on Danger (1942) - Mrs. Morrell Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942) - Aunt Della Lindsay Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942) - Aunt Della Lindsay Journey for Margaret (1942) - Mrs. Bailey Random Harvest (1942) - Mrs. Lloyd The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) - Louise Holliday Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943) - Aunt Della Lindsay Never a Dull Moment (1943) - Mrs. Schuyler Manning III Higher and Higher (1943) - Mrs. Georgia Keating Weird Woman (1944) - Grace Gunnison The Canterville Ghost (1944) - Mrs. Polverdine In the Meantime, Darling (1944) - Mrs. Helen Corkery Tall in the Saddle (1944) - Miss Elizabeth Martin Blonde Fever (1944) - Mrs. Talford Grissly's Millions (1945) - Leona Palmor A Song for Miss Julie (1945) - Mrs. Ambrose Charteris The Unseen (1945) - Mrs. Norris Mama Loves Papa (1945) - Jessie Todd The Fighting Guardsman (1946) - Mme. de Montrevel (uncredited) They Made Me a Killer (1946) - 'Ma' Conley The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946) - Catherine Walsh Lover Come Back (1946) - 'Ma' Williams Roll on Texas Moon (1946) - Cactus Kate Taylor The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) - Mrs. Prichard The Egg and I (1947) - Birdie's Mother The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) - Emily Baggett Life with Father (1947) - Mrs. Whitehead Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) - Mrs. Hills High Wall (1947) - Mrs. Kenet The Bride Goes Wild (1948) - Mrs. Carruthers Bodyguard (1948) - Gene Dysen Sealed Verdict (1948) - Mrs. Hockland Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) - Mary Nolan Down Dakota Way (1949) - Dolly Paxton Guilty of Treason (1950) - Mother Mindszenty The Secret Fury (1950) - Dr. Twining Sierra (1950) - Aunt Susan Hills of Oklahoma (1950) - Kate Carney Bunco Squad (1950) - Jessica Royce The Milkman (1950) - Mrs. Laura Carter My True Story (1951) - Mme. Rousseau In Old Amarillo (1951) - Granny Adams Bannerline (1951) - Mrs. Margaret Trimble It's a Big Country (1951) - Diner on Train (uncredited) Scaramouche (1952) - Isabelle de Valmorin