Elisabeth Risdon

Elisabeth Risdon
File:Elisabeth Risdon.jpg Elisabeth Risdon in G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House (1920)
Born	Elizabeth Evans (1887-04-26)26 April 1887 London, England
Died	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Cerebral hemorrhage
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1913–1956
Spouse(s)	George Loane Tucker (1916–1921 his death) Brandon Evans (?–1958 his death)

Elisabeth 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.

Biography

Born Elizabeth Evans in London, England, she 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 like 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.

Risdon died in December 1958 in St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California from a cerebral haemorrhage. Her body was donated to medical science.

Partial filmography

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Mother (1917)

• Maria Marten (1913)
• The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914)
• The Idol of Paris (1914)
• The Suicide Club (1914)
• Charity Ann (1915)
• Home (1915)
• Love in a Wood (1915)
• Florence Nightingale (1915)
• A Will of Her Own (1915)
• Gilbert Gets Tiger-It is (1915)
• Esther (1916)
• Driven (1916)
• The Mother of Dartmoor (1916)
• Mother Love (1916)
• Meg the Lady (1916)
• Mother (1917)
• Crime and Punishment (1935)
• Craig's Wife (1936)
• Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
• The King Steps Out (1936)
• The Final Hour (1936)
• Mannequin (1937)
• The Woman I Love (1937)
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
• They Won't Forget (1937)
• Dead End (1937)
• Mad About Music (1938)
• My Bill (1938)
• The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
• Girls on Probation (1938)
• The Great Man Votes (1939)
• The Girl from Mexico (1939)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
• Five Came Back (1939)
• The Roaring Twenties (1939)
• The Howards of Virginia (1940)
• The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
• High Sierra (1941)
• Let's Make Music (1941)
• Nice Girl? (1941)
• Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
• Weird Woman (1944)
• The Canterville Ghost (1944)
• Tall in the Saddle (1944)
• The Unseen (1945)
• They Made Me a Killer (1946)
• The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)
• The Egg and I (1947)
• The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
• Life with Father (1947)
• Bodyguard (1948)
• Sealed Verdict (1948)
• The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
• Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
• The Milkman (1950)
• Guilty of Treason (1950)
• Sierra (1950)
• Bannerline (1951)
• Scaramouche (1952)

External links

• Elisabeth Risdon at the Internet Movie Database
• Elisabeth Risdon at the Internet Broadway Database
• Elisabeth Risdon at Find a Grave