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Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead, commonly known as Agnes Moorehead, was born on December 6, 1900. She was an incredibly talented American actress whose expansive career spanned over five decades. Not only did her work encompass radio, stage, film, and television, but she also received recognition for her efforts, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Additionally, she was nominated for four Academy Awards. Moorehead was a part of Orson Welles' Mercury Players, becoming one of his principal performers in 1937. She held notable roles in numerous films like Citizen Kane (1941), Dark Passage (1947), Show Boat (1951), and All That Heaven Allows (1955). Moorehead’s performances in films such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Mrs. Parkington (1944), Johnny Belinda (1948), and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) garnered her four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also recognized for the radioplay Sorry, Wrong Number (1943).
Moorehead gained an esteemed reputation for her role as Endora on the ABC sitcom Bewitched, which she played from 1964 to 1972. Her performance earned her six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role on the western series The Wild Wild West. Despite being remembered for her role in Bewitched, Moorehead was sure to remind interviewers of her esteemed career prior to the sitcom, having played in movies and theatre across the coast and not wanting to be identified solely as 'the witch'. She found the script quality for television often below standard and even dismissed most of the Bewitched scripts as 'hack'. Moorehead passed away on April 30, 1974 due to uterine cancer at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Agnes Robertson Moorehead
Born: Clinton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Citizenship: American
Birthday: December 6, 1900
Occupations: Actress
Years Active: 1933–1974
Spouses: John Griffith Lee, Robert Gist
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Awards and Nominations Received by Agnes Moorehead
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Movies Featuring Agnes Moorehead
The Magnificent Ambersons
Charlotte's Web
Pollyanna
The Singing Nun
Dark Passage
Citizen Kane
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Journey into Fear
Twenty Plus Two
All That Heaven Allows
Night of Terror
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Magnificent Obsession
Untamed
Caged
Pardners
The Blue Veil
Mrs. Parkington
Black Jack
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Who’s Minding the Store?
The Great Sinner
Since You Went Away
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Dear Dead Delilah
Frankenstein: The True Story
The Youngest Profession
The Woman in White
Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Land of Oz
Scandal at Scourie
The Conqueror
Dragon Seed
The Left Hand of God
The Opposite Sex
Jeanne Eagels
Operation Raintree
The Ballad of Andy Crocker
Jessica
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Story of Three Loves
Tempest
Tomorrow, the World!
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Night of the Quarter Moon
Jane Eyre
Not One Shall Die
Summer Holiday
Station West
The Story of Mankind
The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove
Fourteen Hours
The Stratton Story
Show Boat
The Bat
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Johnny Belinda
The True Story of Jesse James
Raintree County
Bachelor in Paradise
The Big Street
Keep Your Powder Dry
The Magic Pear Tree
The Seventh Cross
Those Redheads from Seattle
What’s the Matter with Helen?
The Lost Moment
Career Timeline
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1957
Jeanne Eagels
Nellie Neilson
Operation Raintree
Self
Not One Shall Die
Hannah Lessing
The Story of Mankind
Queen Elizabeth I
The True Story of Jesse James
Mrs. Samuel
Raintree County
Ellen Shawnessy
1956
Pardners
Mrs. Matilda Kingsley
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Miss Hattie
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Bertha Parchman
The Conqueror
Hunlun
The Opposite Sex
Countess Lavaliere
1955
All That Heaven Allows
Sara Warren
Untamed
Aggie (Kildare's governess)
The Left Hand of God
Beryl Sigman
1953
Scandal at Scourie
Sister Josephine
The Story of Three Loves
Aunt Lydia
Those Redheads from Seattle
Mrs. Edmonds
1951
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Aunt Jezebel
The Blue Veil
Mrs. Palfrey
Fourteen Hours
Christine Hill Cosick
Show Boat
Parthy Hawks
1948
The Woman in White
Countess Fosco
Summer Holiday
Cousin Lily
Station West
Mrs. Mary Caslon
Johnny Belinda
Aggie MacDonald
1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Countess Zoe
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Bruna Jacobson
Keep Your Powder Dry
Lieut. Colonel Spottiswoode
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