Biography for
Elspeth Eric More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

15 September 1907, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death

1993, New York City, New York, USA (cancer)

Birth Name

Elspeth Thexton

Trivia

Elspeth Eric was one of radio's busiest actresses throughout the 1940s and 1950 and was heard on such radio drama series as GANGBUSTERS, MOLLEE MYSTERY THEATER, MURDER AT MIDNIGHT, and others usually playing gun molls and ladies with criminal intents. In the 1970s she wrote and was heard on many of Himan Brown's CBS MYSTERY THEATER radio series.

Had a featured role in the original Broadway production of the classic stage play, 'Dead End', which introduced the famous Dead End Kids to the American public.

A good friend of actress Mercedes McCambridge, Eric was considered for the role of Sadie Burke in the Academy Award winning film, 'All The King'S Men', but McCambridge won the role and subsequently won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing the role of Sadie Burke in the film.

Between 1974 and 1982, she wrote 116 episodes (and appeared in 13 as an actress) of the "CBS Radio Mystery Theater.".