Elspeth Thexton Eric

Elspeth Thexton Eric was born on September 15, 1907. She was an American actress in old-time radio, "usually cast as the other woman in soaps and serials".

The daughter of a doctor, Elspeth Thexton Eric was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Bradford Academy and graduated from Wellesley College with a double major in economics and English literature. After hearing tales of woe about "girls who had tried to crash the great White Way and failed, she enrolled in a business school and left word with her friends in New York to let her know when a job was to be had there.

Eric's initial work on radio came in Big Sister and Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories.
Other programs on which Eric appeared included The Haunting Hour, The FBI in Peace and War, Abbott Mysteries, Ever Since Eve, Front Page Farrell, Quick as a Flash, Rosemary,  Mommie and the Men, Inner Sanctum Mystery, Bulldog Drummond, Manhattan at Midnight, Green Valley, U.S.A., Gang Busters, 21st Precinct, Grand Central Station, and Mr. District Attorney.

Elspeth Eric was one of radio's busiest actresses throughout the 1940s and 1950 and was heard on such radio drama series usually playing gun molls and ladies with criminal intents. In the 1970s she wrote and was heard on many of Himan Brown's CBS MYSTERY THEATER radio series.

Eric gained early acting experience with the Woodstock Summer Theatre. In 1932, she acted in the troupe at the Westchester Playhouse at Mount Kisco, New York.

Eric had the role of Lil Monte in the Road of Life soap opera, which was broadcast on TV and radio in 1955, with the same cast. She also appeared in "His Name Was Death," an episode of Robert Montgomery Presents (March 18, 1957), "Young Man Adam," an episode of Studio One (December 29, 1952), and "The Unfraid," an episode of The Web (November 23, 1952).
In a 1955 newspaper article, Eric indicated her preference for working in radio.

Elspeth Eric died of cancer in Manhattan in 1993.