Elsa Raven

Elsa Raven
Born	Elsa Rabinowitz September 21, 1929 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1961–present

Elsa Raven (born Elsa Rabinowitz; September 21, 1929) is an American character actress, perhaps best known for her two years (1988–90) on the sitcom Amen and playing the mother of Vincent Terranova (Ken Wahl) on the TV series Wiseguy.^[1]

She played Ida Straus in the 1997 film Titanic and had a voice role in the 1981 animated film American Pop.^[2]

Film appearances

• The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
• A Fan's Notes (1972)
• The Amityville Horror (1979)
• The Cracker Factory (1979)
• Fatso (1980)
• American Pop (1981, voice role)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
• Paternity (1981)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Creator (1985)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Moderns (1988)
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• Titanic (1997)
• The 4th Tenor (2002)
• The Cutter (2005)
• Answers to Nothing (2011)

TV appearances

• Highway to Heaven
• The A-Team
• Amen
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Freddy's Nightmares
• Get a Life
• Seinfeld
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Murphy Brown
• Quincy, M.E.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Wiseguy
• Million Dollar Infield

References

1. "Elsa Raven". The New York Times.
2. Canby, Vincent (February 13, 1981). "'American Pop' Grown-Up Animation". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2011.

External links

• Elsa Raven at the Internet Movie Database