Agnes Moorehead
Biography
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.
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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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- The Rifleman (1958) as Bertie Hoakam
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self - Co-Host
- The Virginian (1962) as Emma Garvey
- Bewitched (1964) as Endora
- Burke's Law (1963) as Liz Haggerty
- Burke's Law (1963) as Pauline Moss
- Burke's Law (1963) as Dona Ynez Ortega y Esteban
- The Wild Wild West (1965)
- The Wild Wild West (1965) as Emma Valentine
- Rawhide (1959) as Sister Frances
- The Twilight Zone (1959) as Woman
- Wagon Train (1957) as Mary Halstead
- Love, American Style (1969) as Mrs. Cooper
- The Rebel (1959) as Martha Lassiter
- Matinee Theater (1955)
- Climax! (1954) as (segment "Child of the Wind")
- Climax! (1954) as Irene
- Night Gallery (1970) as Head Witch (segment "Witches' Feast")
- Night Gallery (1970) as Emma Brigham (segment "Certain Shadows on the Wall")
- The Red Skelton Show (1951) as Bertha Bluenose
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) as Mrs. Ramsey