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Elisabeth Risdon 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.
Birth Name
Daisy Cartwright Risdon
Born
Thursday, 26 April 1888
Died
Saturday, 20 December 1958
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The O. Henry Playhouse | Ma | 1957 |
| Damon Runyon Theater | Emily | 1955 |
| The Whistler | Mrs. Jaeger | 1954 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Aunt Abby / Mrs. Crumpler / Mrs. Kelton | 1952 |
| Footlights Theater | (archive footage) | 1952 |
| Scaramouche | Isabelle de Valmorin | 1952 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Diner on Train | 1951 |
| Bannerline | Mrs. Margaret Trimble / Margaret Trimble | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Ella | 1951 |
| In Old Amarillo | Granny Adams | 1951 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The O. Henry Playhouse | Ma | 1957 |
| Damon Runyon Theater | Emily | 1955 |
| The Whistler | Mrs. Jaeger | 1954 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Aunt Abby / Mrs. Crumpler / Mrs. Kelton | 1952 |
| Footlights Theater | (archive footage) | 1952 |
| Scaramouche | Isabelle de Valmorin | 1952 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Diner on Train | 1951 |
| Bannerline | Mrs. Margaret Trimble / Margaret Trimble | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Ella | 1951 |
| In Old Amarillo | Granny Adams | 1951 |
| My True Story | Mme. Rousseau | 1951 |
| The Milkman | Mrs. Laura Carter | 1950 |
| Treasury Men in Action | (as Elizabeth Risden) | 1950 |
| Bunco Squad | Jessica Royce | 1950 |
| Hills of Oklahoma | Kate Carney | 1950 |
| Sierra | Aunt Susan | 1950 |
| The Secret Fury | Dr. Twining / Dr. R.W. Roberts | 1950 |
| Guilty of Treason | Mother Mindszenty | 1950 |
| Down Dakota Way | Dolly Paxton | 1949 |
| Every Girl Should Be Married | Mary Nolan | 1948 |
| Sealed Verdict | Mrs. Hockland | 1948 |
| Bodyguard | Gene Dysen | 1948 |
| The Bride Goes Wild | rs. Carruthers / Mrs. Carruthers | 1948 |
| 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 / Mrs. Amanda Pritchard | 1947 |
| Roll on Texas Moon | Cactus Kate Taylor | 1946 |
| Lover Come Back | 'Ma' Williams / Ma Williams | 1946 |
| The Walls Came Tumbling Down | Catherine Walsh | 1946 |
| They Made Me a Killer | 'Ma' Conley | 1946 |
| The Fighting Guardsman | Mme. de Montrevel | 1946 |
| The Unseen | Mrs. Norris | 1945 |
| A Song for Miss Julie | Mrs. Ambrose Charteris | 1945 |
| Grissly's Millions | Leona Palmor | 1945 |
| Blonde Fever | Mrs. Talford | 1944 |
| Tall in the Saddle | Miss Elizabeth Martin | 1944 |
| In the Meantime, Darling | Helen Corkery / Mrs. Helen Corkery | 1944 |
| The Canterville Ghost | Mrs. Polverdine | 1944 |
| Weird Woman | Grace Gunnison / Dean Grace Gunnison | 1944 |
| Higher and Higher | Mrs. Georgia Keating / 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 | 1943 |
| Journey for Margaret | Mrs. Bailey | 1942 |
| Random Harvest | Mrs. Lloyd | 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 | 1942 |
| Paris Calling | Madame Jennetier | 1941 |
| The Mexican Spitfire's Baby | Aunt Della | 1941 |
| Footlight Fever | Aunt Hattie Drake | 1941 |
| Mr. Dynamite | Achilles / Limping Woman (aka "Achilles") | 1941 |
| Nice Girl? | Martha Peasley / Marrtha Peasley | 1941 |
| High Sierra | Ma | 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 | 1940 |
| Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot | Agatha | 1940 |
| Saturday's Children | Myrtle Halevy / Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon) | 1940 |
| Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me | Minerva | 1940 |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Sarah Lincoln | 1940 |
| Honeymoon Deferred | Sarah Frome | 1940 |
| The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Jury Member | 1940 |
| Mexican Spitfire | Aunt Della Lindsay | 1940 |
| The Roaring Twenties | Mrs. Sherman | 1939 |
| Disputed Passage | Mrs. Cunningham | 1939 |
| Full Confession | Norah O'Keefe | 1939 |
| The Forgotten Woman | Margaret Burke | 1939 |
| Five Came Back | Martha Spengler | 1939 |
| The Man Who Dared | Jessie Carter | 1939 |
| The Girl from Mexico | Aunt Della Lindsay / Della Lindsay | 1939 |
| Sorority House | Mrs. Scott | 1939 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Widow Douglass | 1939 |
| The Great Man Votes | Phoebe Ainslee | 1939 |
| Tom Sawyer, Detective | Aunt Sally / Aunt Sally Phelps | 1938 |
| Girls on Probation | Kate Heath | 1938 |
| The Affairs of Annabel | Mrs. Fletcher | 1938 |
| Cowboy from Brooklyn | Mrs. Jordan | 1938 |
| My Bill | Aunt Caroline | 1938 |
| Mad About Music | Annette Fusenot | 1938 |
| Mannequin | Mrs.Cassidy / Mrs. Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon) | 1938 |
| Dead End | Mrs. Connell | 1937 |
| They Won't Forget | Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon) / Mrs. Hale | 1937 |
| Make Way for Tomorrow | Cora Payne | 1937 |
| Mountain Justice | Meg Harkins / Mrs. Harkins | 1937 |
| The Woman I Love | Mme. Herbillion | 1937 |
| 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 | 1936 |
| Crime and Punishment | Mrs. Raskolnikov | 1935 |
| Guard That Girl | Aunt Catherine | 1935 |
| The Hypocrites | Rachel Neve | 1917 |
| Desperation | Katherine Crichton | 1917 |
| Smith | Smith | 1917 |
| A Mother's Influence | Avesa Pomeroy | 1916 |
| Esther | Esther | 1916 |
| The Princess of Happy Chance | Princess Felicia / Lucidora Eden | 1916 |
| Meg the Lady | Lady Brisby | 1916 |
| Mother Love | Mary | 1916 |
| Charity Ann | Ann Charity | 1915 |
| A Will of Her Own | Isabel Stanton | 1915 |
| Her Nameless Child | Phyllis / Alice Ford | 1915 |
| From Shopgirl to Duchess | Sylvia Gray | 1915 |
| Love in a Wood | Rosiland | 1915 |
| Fine Feathers | Meg Roberts | 1915 |
| The Loss of the Birkenhead | Deborah | 1914 |
| It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary | Molly Molloy | 1914 |
| The Battling British | Black-eyed Susan | 1914 |
| The Suicide Club | Zephyrine | 1914 |
| The Cup Final Mystery | Lizzie Keen | 1914 |
| Her Luck in London | Nellie Harbourne | 1914 |
