Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
4/26/1887
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
Elisabeth Risdon
Biography
Known For
Scaramouche
as Isabelle de Valmorin
Random Harvest
as Mrs. Lloyd
Dead End
as Mrs. Connell
High Wall
as Mrs. Kenet
Footlight Fever
as Aunt Hattie Drake
The Milkman
as Mrs. Carter
The Unseen
as Mrs. Norris
Weird Woman
as Dean Grace Gunnison
My Bill
as Aunt Caroline
Disputed Passage
as Mrs. Cunningham
Mountain Justice
as Mrs. Harkins
Mr. Dynamite
as Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
Sierra
as Aunt Susan
Sorority House
as Mrs. Scott
Mannequin
as Mrs. Cassidy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Life with Father
as Mrs. Whitehead
Slightly Tempted
as Ethelreda Knox
Lost Angel
as Mrs. Pringle
Bunco Squad
as Jessica Royce
Full Confession
as Norah O'Keefe
Career Timeline
1951
1950
1948
1947
1946
1945
1944
1943
1942
Random Harvest
as Mrs. Lloyd
Journey for Margaret
as Mrs. Bailey
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
as Aunt Della Lindsay
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
as Aunt Della Lindsay
I Live on Danger
as Mrs. Morrell
Are Husbands Necessary?
as Mrs. Westwood
Reap the Wild Wind
as Mrs. Claiborne
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
as Aunt Della Lindsay
The Lady Is Willing
as Mrs. Cummings
The Man Who Returned to Life
as Minerva Sunday
Jail House Blues
as Mrs. Alyosius McGonigle McGann
1941
Paris Calling
as Madame Jennetier
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
as Aunt Della
At the Stroke of Twelve
as Abigail Ardsley, aka The Old Doll
Footlight Fever
as Aunt Hattie Drake
Mr. Dynamite
as Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
Nice Girl?
as Marrtha Peasley
High Sierra
as Ma
Let's Make Music
as Malvina Adams
1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Aunt Della Lindsay
Slightly Tempted
as Ethelreda Knox
The Howards of Virginia
as Aunt Clarissa
Saturday's Children
as Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
as Minerva
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Sarah Lincoln
Honeymoon Deferred
as Sarah Frome
Mexican Spitfire
as Aunt Della Lindsay
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Jury Member
1939
The Roaring Twenties
as Mrs. Sherman
Disputed Passage
as Mrs. Cunningham
Full Confession
as Norah O'Keefe
The Forgotten Woman
as Margaret Burke
Five Came Back
as Martha Spengler
The Man Who Dared
as Jessie Carter
The Girl from Mexico
as Della Lindsay
Sorority House
as Mrs. Scott
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Widow Douglass
The Great Man Votes
as Phoebe Ainslee