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Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. In a career spanning five decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead was the recipient of such accolades as a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards.
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entertainment · American actress (1900–1974) · voice actor · film actor · stage actor · television actor · television presenter · actor · also Agnes Moorehead, Moorehead
Born 6 December 1900 · Died 30 April 1974 · Q231221
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2026· 3 entries
Yahoo: What Happened To Bewitched's Endora Actress, Agnes Moorehead, After The Show Was Canceled?
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Yahoo: Clinton Historical Society to pay tribute to Agnes Moorehead
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2019· 1 entry
We Are Movie Geeks: St. Louis Legends Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead in THE BAT this Thursday at Schlafly Bottleworks
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2016· 1 entry
Arizona Daily Star: Agnes Moorehead
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1994· 1 entry
Was posthumously inducted into the St
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1974· 2 entries
Died 1974-04-30.
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Said she had enjoyed playing the role enough, but it was not challenging, and the show itself was "not breathtaking", although her flamboyant and colorful character appealed to children
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1973· 1 entry
Revealed that, in 1922, she had by chance met Welles (15 years her junior) when he was a mere seven years old at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City
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1970· 1 entry
Appeared as a dying woman who haunts her own house in the early Night Gallery episode "Certain Shadows on the Wall"
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1969· 1 entry
Replaced the ill Dick York as Samantha's husband Darrin Stephens, had a more difficult relationship with Moorehead, describing her as "a tough old bird
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The Wild Wild West (1967).
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Portrayed Miss Emma Valentine in "The Night of the Vicious Valentine" on The Wild Wild West, a performance for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
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1965· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965).
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"I've been in movies and played theatre from coast to coast, so I was quite well known before 'Bewitched,' and I don't particularly want to be identified as the witch
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1964· 1 entry
Moorehead accepted the role of Endora, Samantha's (Elizabeth Montgomery) mortal-loathing, quick-witted witch mother in the situation comedy Bewitched
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1959· 1 entry
Moorehead guest-starred on many series, including The Rebel and Alcoa Theatre
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1952· 2 entries
A year after fostering a boy named Sean Lee
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Recorded an album of the drama and performed scenes from the story in her one-woman show in the 1950s
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1947· 1 entry
And served for a year on its board of trustees
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1945· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Mrs. Parkington (1945).
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1941· 1 entry
Moorehead played Maggie in the short-lived Bringing Up Father program on the Blue Network
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1939· 1 entry
Welles moved the Mercury Theatre to Hollywood, where he started working for RKO Pictures
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1930· 1 entry
Moorehead married actor John Griffith Lee
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1929· 1 entry
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1929).
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1923· 1 entry
At Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio
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1921· 1 entry
When Agnes was an undergraduate at Muskingum, the college presented an honorary degree to Bob Jones, Sr
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1900· 2 entries
In Clinton, Massachusetts, the daughter of former singer Mary (née McCauley), who was 17 when she gave birth to Agnes, and Presbyterian clergyman John Henderson Moorehead
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Born 1900-12-06.
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