Elsie Ritchie
Elsie Ritchie is an American actress with a brief film career in the 1970s who is the sister of American film director, Michael Ritchie. She played roles in her brother's films in The Candidate in 1972 and in 1975's Smile.
Elsie recently retired as a high school English teacher at Aragon High School in California. Her teaching career spanned 22 years and included many years as an award-winning drama teacher. Elsie's father Dr. Benbow Ritchie was a professor at UC Berkeley during Elsie's childhood. Benbow's favorite hobby was to act and direct theater productions in local Berkeley community theater groups. Elsie had early experience as an actor as a result of her family's passions. Elsie has taken up this family passion again in Redding, Ca since her retirement from teaching. She has had several roles in local community theater productions of Romeo & Juliet, You Can't take It With You, The Nutcracker, The Dixie Swim Club, Harvey. Her directorial credits include The Gin Game at the Riverfront Playhouse. She led a local actor monologue workshop.
