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Elisabeth Risdon (1887–1958)

Actress | Soundtrack

Star actress of UK silents who became a Hollywood character player in the sound era, typically portraying stern, autocratic elders. See full bio »

Born:

Elizabeth Evans
in London, England, UK

Died:

(age 71) in Santa Monica, California, USA
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1955-1957 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
Aunt Abby / Mrs. Crumpler / Mrs. Kelton
– Broken Barrier (1957) … Aunt Abby
– All for a Man (1956) … Mrs. Crumpler
– Letters Marked Personal (1955) … Mrs. Kelton
 
1956 Ethel Barrymore Theater (TV series)
– The Daugthers of Mars (1956)
 
1955 Damon Runyon Theater (TV series)
– Bunny on the Beach (1955)
 
1955 Treasury Men in Action (TV series)
– The Case of the Only Son (1955) (as Elizabeth Risden)
 
1954 The Whistler (TV series)
Mrs. Jaeger
– Incident at Scully's Key (1954) … Mrs. Jaeger (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1953 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
– Sheila (1953)
 
1952 Scaramouche
Isabelle de Valmorin
 
1951 It's a Big Country
Diner on Train (uncredited)
 
1951 Bannerline
Mrs. Margaret Trimble
 
1950-1951 The Bigelow Theatre (TV series)
– The Other Jessie Grant (1951)
– The Man Who Had Nothing to Lose (1950)
 
1951 In Old Amarillo
Granny Adams
 
1951 My True Story
Mme. Rousseau
 
1950 The Milkman
Mrs. Laura Carter
 
1950 Bunco Squad
Jessica Royce
 
1950 Sierra
Aunt Susan
 
1950 Hills of Oklahoma
Kate Carney
 
1950 The Secret Fury
Dr. Twining
 
1950 Guilty of Treason
Mother Mindszenty
 
1949 Down Dakota Way
Dolly Paxton
 
1948 Every Girl Should Be Married
Mary Nolan
 
1948 Sealed Verdict
Mrs. Hockland
 
1948 Bodyguard
Gene Dysen
 
1948 The Bride Goes Wild
Mrs. Carruthers
 
1947 High Wall
Mrs. Kenet
 
1947 Mourning Becomes Electra
Mrs. Hills
 
1947 Life with Father
Mrs. Whitehead
 
1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Emily Baggett
 
1947 The Egg and I
Betty's Mother
 
1947 The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Mrs. Prichard
 
1946 Roll on Texas Moon
Cactus Kate Taylor
 
1946 Lover Come Back
'Ma' Williams
 
1946 The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Catherine Walsh
 
1946 They Made Me a Killer
'Ma' Conley (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1946 The Fighting Guardsman
Mme. de Montrevel (uncredited)
 
1945 Mama Loves Papa
Jessie Todd
 
1945 The Unseen
Mrs. Norris
 
1945 A Song for Miss Julie
Mrs. Ambrose Charteris
 
1945 Grissly's Millions
Leona Palmor
 
1944 Blonde Fever
Mrs. Talford
 
1944 Tall in the Saddle
Miss Elizabeth Martin
 
1944 In the Meantime, Darling
Mrs. Helen Corkery
 
1944 The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Polverdine
 
1944 Weird Woman
Dean Grace Gunnison
 
1943 Higher and Higher
Mrs. Georgia Keating
 
1943 Lost Angel
Mrs. Pringle
 
1943 Never a Dull Moment
Mrs. Schuyler Manning III
 
1943 Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Louise Holliday
 
1942 Random Harvest
Mrs. Lloyd
 
1942 Journey for Margaret
Mrs. Bailey
 
1942 Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1942 Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1942 I Live on Danger
Mrs. Morrell
 
1942 Are Husbands Necessary?
Mrs. Westwood
 
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
Mrs. Claiborne
 
1942 Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1942 The Lady Is Willing
Mrs. Cummings
 
1942 The Man Who Returned to Life
Minerva Sunday
 
1942 Jail House Blues
Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
 
1941 Paris Calling
Madame Jennetier
 
1941 Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Aunt Della
 
1941 At the Stroke of Twelve (short)
Abigail Osley, aka The Old Doll
 
1941 Footlight Fever
Aunt Hattie Drake
 
1941 Mr. Dynamite
Achilles
 
1941 Nice Girl?
Martha Peasley
 
1941 High Sierra
Ma (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1941 Let's Make Music
Malvina Adams
 
1940 Mexican Spitfire Out West
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1940 Slightly Tempted
Ethelreda Knox
 
1940 The Howards of Virginia
Aunt Clarissa (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1940 Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Agatha
 
1940 Saturday's Children
Mrs. Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1940 Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me
Minerva
 
1940 Honeymoon Deferred
Sarah Frome
 
1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Sarah Lincoln
 
1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Jury Member (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1940 Mexican Spitfire
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1939 Disputed Passage
Mrs. Cunningham
 
1939 The Roaring Twenties
Mrs. Sherman (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1939 Full Confession
Norah O'Keefe
 
1939 The Forgotten Woman
Margaret Burke
 
1939 Five Came Back
Martha Spengler
 
1939 The Girl from Mexico
Aunt Della Lindsay
 
1939 Sorority House
Mrs. Scott
 
1939 The Man Who Dared
Jessie Carter (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Widow Douglass (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1939 The Great Man Votes
Phoebe Ainslee
 
1938 Tom Sawyer, Detective
Aunt Sally
 
1938 Girls on Probation
Kate Heath
 
1938 The Affairs of Annabel
Mrs. Fletcher
 
1938 Cowboy from Brooklyn
Mrs. Jordan (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1938 My Bill
Aunt Caroline
 
1938 Mad About Music
Annette Fusenot
 
1937 Mannequin
Mrs.Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1937 Dead End
Mrs. Connell
 
1937 They Won't Forget
Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1937 Make Way for Tomorrow
Cora Payne
 
1937 Mountain Justice
Meg Harkins (as Elizabeth Risdon)
 
1937 The Woman I Love
Mme. Herbillion
 
1936 Theodora Goes Wild
Aunt Mary
 
1936 Craig's Wife
Mrs. Landreth
 
1936 The Final Hour
Fortune Teller
 
1936 The King Steps Out
Grand Duchess Sofia
 
1936 Don't Gamble with Love
Grace
 
1936 Lady of Secrets
Mrs. Emily Whittaker
 
1935 Crime and Punishment
Mrs. Raskolnikov
 
1935 Guard That Girl
Aunt Catherine
 
1919 A Star Over Night (short)
 
1917 Smith
Smith
 
1917 The Mother of Dartmoor
Avesa Pomeroy
 
1917 The Manxman
Kate Gregeen
 
1916 A Mother's Influence (short)
Avesa Pomeroy
 
1916 The Princess of Happy Chance
Princess Felicia/Lucidora Eden
 
1916 The Hypocrites
Rachel Neve
 
1916 Mother Love
Mary
 
1916 Meg the Lady
Lady Brisby
 
1916 Esther
Esther
 
1916 Desperation
Katherine Crichton
 
1915 The Christian
Gloria Quayle
 
1915/II Fine Feathers
Meg Roberts
 
1915 A Will of Her Own
Isabel Stanton
 
1915 Love in a Wood
Rosiland
 
1915 Charity Ann
Ann Charity
 
1915 Home
Joan Bicester
 
1915 Grip (short)
Margaret Eden
 
1915 Her Nameless Child
Phyllis/Alice Ford
 
1915 Another Man's Wife (short)
The Wife
 
1915 London's Yellow Peril (short)
Ruth Graham
 
1915 From Shopgirl to Duchess
Sylvia Gray
 
1915 Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
 
1915 Midshipman Easy (short)
Don's Daughter
 
1915 There's Good in Everyone (short)
Beatrice Maybrook
 
1915 Honeymoon for Three
Molly Van Dam
 
1915 Gilbert Gets Tiger-Itis (short)
Mrs. Gilbert
 
1914 The Sound of Her Voice (short)
Violet Morne
 
1914 It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary (short)
Molly Molloy
 
1914 Her Luck in London
Nellie Harbourne
 
1914 The Courage of a Coward (short)
The Wife
 
1914 The Bells of Rheims (short)
Nurse
 
1914 The Price of Justice (short)
Nancy Earle
 
1914 The Suicide Club
Zephyrine
 
1914 The Loss of the Birkenhead
Deborah
 
1914 The Battling British (short)
Black-eyed Susan
 
1914 Inquisitive Ike (short)
Dora
 
1914 The Finger of Destiny (short)
Doris
 
1914 The Cup Final Mystery (short)
Lizzie Keen
 
1914 The Idol of Paris
Flare-Flare
 
1913 Maria Marten, or: The Murder in the Red Barn (short)
Maria Marten
 
1913 Bridegrooms Beware (short)
The Bride
 
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1941 Let's Make Music (performer: "Fight on for Newton High" / "Fight on for Newton High")
 

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(1912- 1935). Active on Broadway in the following productions: See more »

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Plays all sorts of film moms throughout the 30s and 40s -- elegant, countrified, pleasant and prickly. See more »

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