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Agnes Moorehead

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Agnes Moorehead

Born December 6, 1900 in Clinton, Massachusetts, USADied April 30, 197476 films

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the series Bewitched.

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While rarely playing leads in films, Moorehead's skill at character development and range earned her one Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards in addition to four Academy Award and six Emmy Award nominations. Moorehead's transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy. She could play many different types, but often portrayed haughty, arrogant characters.

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Citizen Kane posterFirst watchCitizen Kane19418.0as Mary KaneNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Magnificent Ambersons poster7.3The Magnificent Ambersons1942How the West Was Won poster7.0How the West Was Won1962Dark Passage poster7.3Dark Passage1947All That Heaven Allows poster7.3All That Heaven Allows1955Charlotte's Web poster6.9Charlotte's Web1973Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte poster7.3Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte1964Pollyanna poster7.0Pollyanna1960Jane Eyre poster6.9Jane Eyre1943

Filmography

76 films as actor
  1. 1994A Bewitched ChristmasEndora
  2. 1974Frankenstein: The True StoryMrs. Blair
  3. 1974Rex Harrison Presents Stories of LoveHercule's Wife
  4. 1973Charlotte's WebGoose (voice)
  5. 1972Night of TerrorBronsky
  6. 1972Rolling ManGrandmother
  7. 1972Dear Dead DelilahDelilah Charles
  8. 1971The Strange Monster of Strawberry CoveMrs. Pringle
  9. 1971Suddenly SingleMarlene
  10. 1971Marriage: Year OneGrandma Duden
  11. 1971What's the Matter with Helen?Sister Alma
  12. 1969The Ballad of Andy CrockerLisa's Mother
  13. 1968The Magic Pear TreeChantelle
  14. 1966Alice Through the Looking GlassThe Red Queen
  15. 1966The Singing NunSister Cluny
  16. 1964Hush... Hush, Sweet CharlotteVelma Cruther
  17. 1963Who's Minding the Store?Phoebe Tuttle
  18. 1962How the West Was WonRebecca Prescott
  19. 1962JessicaMaria Lombardo
  20. 1961Bachelor in ParadiseJudge Peterson
  21. 1961Twenty Plus TwoMrs. Eleanor Delaney
  22. 1960PollyannaMrs. Snow
  23. 1959The BatCornelia van Gorder
  24. 1959Night of the Quarter MoonCornelia Nelson
  25. 1958TempestVassilissa Mironova
  26. 1957Raintree CountyEllen Shawnessy
  27. 1957The Story of MankindQueen Elizabeth I
  28. 1957Jeanne EagelsNellie Neilson
  29. 1957The True Story of Jesse JamesMrs. Samuel
  30. 1957The Life You Save May Be Your OwnMa Crater
  31. 1957Not One Shall DieHannah Lessing
  32. 1956The Opposite SexCountess Lavaliere
  33. 1956PardnersMrs. Matilda Kingsley
  34. 1956The Revolt of Mamie StoverBertha Parchman
  35. 1956The SwanQueen Maria Dominika
  36. 1956Meet Me in Las VegasMiss Hattie
  37. 1956The ConquerorHunlun
  38. 1955The Left Hand of GodBeryl Sigman
  39. 1955All That Heaven AllowsSara Warren
  40. 1955UntamedAggie (Kildare's governess)
  41. 1954Magnificent ObsessionNancy Ashford
  42. 1953Those Redheads from SeattleMrs. Edmonds
  43. 1953Main Street to BroadwayMildred Waterbury
  44. 1953Scandal at ScourieSister Josephine
  45. 1953The Story of Three LovesAunt Lydia
  46. 1952The Blazing ForestJessie Crain
  47. 1951The Blue VeilMrs. Palfrey
  48. 1951Adventures of Captain FabianAunt Jezebel
  49. 1951Show BoatParthy Hawks
  50. 1951Fourteen HoursChristine Hill Cosick
  51. 1950Black JackMrs. Emily Birk
  52. 1950CagedRuth Benton
  53. 1949Without HonorKatherine Williams
  54. 1949The Great SinnerEmma Getzel
  55. 1949The Stratton StoryMa Stratton
  56. 1948Johnny BelindaAggie MacDonald
  57. 1948Station WestMrs. Mary Caslon
  58. 1948The Woman in WhiteCountess Fosco
  59. 1948Summer HolidayCousin Lily
  60. 1947The Lost MomentJuliana Borderau
  61. 1947Dark PassageMadge Rapf
  62. 1945Her Highness and the BellboyCountess Zoe
  63. 1945Our Vines Have Tender GrapesBruna Jacobson
  64. 1945Keep Your Powder DryLieut. Colonel Spottiswoode
  65. 1944Tomorrow, the World!Aunt Jessie Frame
  66. 1944Mrs. ParkingtonBaroness Aspasia Conti
  67. 1944The Seventh CrossMadame Marelli
  68. 1944Dragon SeedThird Cousin's Wife
  69. 1944Since You Went AwayEmily Hawkins
  70. 1943Jane EyreMrs. Reed
  71. 1943Government GirlAdele - Mrs. Delancey Wright
  72. 1943The Youngest ProfessionMiss Featherstone
  73. 1943Journey into FearMrs. Mathews
  74. 1942The Big StreetViolette Shumberg
  75. 1942The Magnificent AmbersonsFanny Minafer
  76. 1941Citizen KaneMary Kane