Full Name | Agnes Moorehead |
Net Worth | $250,000 |
Date Of Birth | December 6, 1900 |
Died | April 30, 1974, Rochester, Minnesota, United States |
Place Of Birth | Clinton, Massachusetts, USA |
Height | 1.68 m |
Occupation | Actress, singer |
Profession | Actor, Singer, Radio personality |
Work Position | Awards for Agnes Moorehead |
Education | Muskingum University, Central VPA High School, American Academy of Dramatic Arts |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Robert Gist, John Griffith Lee |
Children | Sean Moorehead |
Parents | Mildred McCauley, John Henderson Moorehead |
Siblings | Margaret Moorehead |
Nicknames | Agnes Moorehead, Moorehead, Agnes |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0001547 |
Awards | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama, TV Land Favorite Mother-In-Law Award, TV Land Favorite Classic TV In-Law Award |
Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, TV Land Favorite "Big, Bad... |
Movies | Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Dark Passage, Johnny Belinda, Mrs. Parkington, Magnificent Obsession, The Conqueror, All That Heaven Allows, The Bat, How the West Was Won, Pollyanna, Caged, Show Boat, Since You Went Away, Jane Eyre, Raintree County, What's the... |
TV Shows | Rolling Man, Bewitched, The Wild Wild West |
Star Sign | Sagittarius |
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1 | It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. |
2 | [commenting on the "Method" school of acting] The Method school thinks the emotion is the art. It isn't. All emotion isn't sublime. The theater isn't reality. If you want reality, go to the morgue. The theater is human behavior that is effective and interesting. |
3 | [Commenting on Marlon Brando, after visiting the set of The Chase (1966)] A wild set - with the gr-r-reat Marlon Brando. You couldn't hear him speak. How do they get on? One take a day practically and he gets $1,000,000 a picture. It's beyond me. |
4 | [when asked if prostitution should be legalized] Legalizing prostitution wouldn't make any difference these days anyway. The whole country is loose, so what's the difference. I don't care what everybody else is doing. I just look at whether it's right or wrong. |
5 | [on "Oh, Calcutta", a play in which most of the cast sheds its clothes and appears nude onstage] Nudity begins at home. After all, who wants to see everybody flying around in their birthday suit? It takes all the magic and illusion out of the theatre. |
6 | Permissiveness in society springs from a lack of standards. There must be a rule of behavior, an appreciation of basic values. |
7 | [commenting that the youth of 1970 need more discipline] Materialism has brought about confusion and decadence. The youth of today have their eyes open to what harm has been done by measuring a man by the size of his bank account, and I feel sorry that so few of them know where to turn because they have lost respect for those closest to them. |
8 | [when asked if there will be Brotherhood in the 1970s] Unless the country and the people in it go back to some Christian principles, there will be no peace. We must really care for each other. Just being polite is caring for your fellow man, but these times call for a great deal more than that. There is nothing more inspiring or so infectious as a good example. I am a religious person and I think that the hope of the world is in the Prince of Peace whose principles, if they were followed, would bring a great understanding between human beings. |
9 | [on failing to win an Oscar after her fourth nomination] I guess I'll remain a bridesmaid for the rest of my life. |
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1 | In 1994, Ms. Moorehead was given a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. |
2 | Orson Welles became enamored of her while she filmed the brief role of Charles Kane's mother in Citizen Kane (1941) but they remained friends and collaborators over a few subsequent films. |
3 | She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
4 | Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen. |
5 | With Orson Welles she was founder and charter member of the famed Mercury Theater Players. |
6 | She was the favorite actress of fellow actress Joan Crawford, who especially enjoyed watching her as Endora on Bewitched (1964). |
7 | She was a staunch Republican and Christian conservative who supported the presidencies of men like Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. |
8 | A devoutly religious woman, she often came to set with her script in one hand and her Bible in the other. |
9 | Was longtime friends with Debbie Reynolds. |
10 | Agnes died of cancer as did almost every actor and crew member of the film, The Conqueror (1956). This included Susan Hayward, John Wayne and director Dick Powell, to name just a few. Some people strongly believe that, unknown by those involved with it at the time, the film was shot on location at a site which received heavy fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing at the (then) Nevada Proving Grounds. |
11 | Remembered by many as the magical mother-in-law Endora on Bewitched (1964), though she preferred to be remembered for other roles. |
12 | Although her death has been reported as being caused by lung cancer, this is not true -- the cancer started in her uterus and spread to her lungs. |
13 | In Italy, she was often dubbed by Wanda Tettoni, Giovanna Scotto or Franca Dominici. Occasionally, she was dubbed by Tina Lattanzi, Rina Morelli or by Dhia Cristiani. |
14 | She did not enjoy filming Bewitched (1964), since it forced her to get up at 4:45 a.m., start makeup at 6:00 a.m. and continue filming often until 8:00 p.m. |
15 | During the first season of Bewitched (1964) she did not like aspects of the scripts, but felt she could not complain to director William Asher because he was star Elizabeth Montgomery's husband. |
16 | First woman to co-host the Academy Awards (with Dick Powell) in 1948. |
17 | Initially turned down the role of Endora in Bewitched (1964), but reconsidered when Elizabeth Montgomery asked her in person, when they met in a department store. Moorehead joined the cast not expecting the series to last more than one season, let alone become a long-running hit. |
18 | Took in foster son Sean shortly after final separation from first husband Jack G. Lee. |
19 | Attended and graduated from Central High School in St. Louis, Missouri. |
20 | Daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. John Henderson Moorehead. |
21 | Taught high school, directed school plays, and coached oratory in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin. The team won numerous contests. |
22 | Received her Master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
23 | Attended New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, studying alongside Rosalind Russell. |
24 | Received her Bachelor's degree, with a major in biology, from Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio. She later received an honorary Litt.D degree from the university. |
25 | Her limousine is on display at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. |
26 | Following her death, she was interred at Dayton Memorial Park in Dayton, Ohio. |
27 | She was one of the cast members of the ill-fated film The Conqueror (1956), which was filmed in 1954 in the Nevada desert close by to where the government was doing nuclear testing. In later years, those tests were suspected to have caused the cancer deaths of several of the films stars including John Wayne, Dick Powell, Susan Hayward and Pedro Armendáriz. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love | 1974 | TV Movie | Hercule's Wife |
Frankenstein: The True Story | 1973 | TV Movie | Mrs. Blair |
Charlotte's Web | 1973 | | The Goose (voice) |
Marcus Welby, M.D. | 1972 | TV Series | Mrs. Ramsey |
Night of Terror | 1972 | TV Movie | Bronsky |
Rolling Man | 1972 | TV Movie | Grandmother |
Bewitched | 1964-1972 | TV Series | Endora |
Dear Dead Delilah | 1972 | | Delilah Charles |
Love, American Style | 1971 | TV Series | Mrs. Cooper (segment 'Love and the Particular Girl') |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1971 | TV Series | Mrs. Pringle |
The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove | 1971 | TV Movie | Mrs. Pringle |
Suddenly Single | 1971 | TV Movie | Marlene |
Marriage: Year One | 1971 | TV Movie | Grandma Duden |
Night Gallery | 1970-1971 | TV Series | Head Witch (segment "Witches' Feast") / Emma Brigham (segment "Certain Shadows on the Wall") |
The Smith Family | 1971 | TV Series | |
What's the Matter with Helen? | 1971 | | Sister Alma |
The Virginian | 1970 | TV Series | Emma Garvey |
Barefoot in the Park | 1970 | TV Series | Mrs. Wilson |
The Red Skelton Hour | 1969 | TV Series | Bertha Bluenose |
Lancer | 1969 | TV Series | Laurette Normile |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969 | TV Series | |
The Ballad of Andy Crocker | 1969 | TV Movie | Lisa's mother |
That's Life | 1969 | TV Series | |
The Magic Pear Tree | 1968 | Short | Chantelle (voice) |
Custer | 1967 | TV Series | Watoma |
The Wild Wild West | 1967 | TV Series | Emma Valentine |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | 1966 | TV Movie | The Red Queen |
The Lone Ranger | 1966 | TV Series | Black Widow |
Hollywood Talent Scouts | 1966 | TV Series | |
The Singing Nun | 1966 | | Sister Cluny |
Burke's Law | 1963-1965 | TV Series | Pauline Moss / Dona Ynez Ortega y Esteban / Liz Haggerty |
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 1964 | | Velma Cruther |
The Greatest Show on Earth | 1964 | TV Series | Millie |
Channing | 1964 | TV Series | Professor Amelia Webster |
Who's Minding the Store? | 1963 | | Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle |
How the West Was Won | 1962 | | Rebecca Prescott |
Poor Mr. Campbell | 1962 | TV Movie | Adrice Campbell |
Jessica | 1962 | | Maria Lombardo |
Bachelor in Paradise | 1961 | | Judge Peterson |
Twenty Plus Two | 1961 | | Mrs. Eleanor Delaney |
My Sister Eileen | 1961 | TV Series | Aunt Harriet |
The Twilight Zone | 1961 | TV Series | Woman |
The Rifleman | 1960 | TV Series | Bertie Hoakam |
Shirley Temple's Storybook | 1958-1960 | TV Series | Hepzibah Pyncheon Mombi the Witch Witch |
Harrigan and Son | 1960 | TV Series | |
Rawhide | 1960 | TV Series | Sister Frances |
Adventures in Paradise | 1960 | TV Series | Jikiri |
The Chevy Mystery Show | 1960 | TV Series | Elizabeth Marshall |
Pollyanna | 1960 | | Mrs. Snow |
The Millionaire | 1960 | TV Series | Katherine Boland |
Startime | 1960 | TV Series | Carmen Lynch |
The Rebel | 1959 | TV Series | Martha Lassiter |
The Bat | 1959 | | Cornelia van Gorder |
Alcoa Theatre | 1959 | TV Series | Mrs. Adams |
Night of the Quarter Moon | 1959 | | Cornelia Nelson |
General Electric Theater | 1959 | TV Series | Ana Konrad Bethlen |
Tempest | 1958 | | Vassilissa Mironova |
Suspicion | 1958 | TV Series | Katherine Searles |
Playhouse 90 | 1958 | TV Series | Rose Ganun |
The DuPont Show of the Month | 1958 | TV Series | Madame Defarge |
Wagon Train | 1957 | TV Series | Mary Halstead |
The Story of Mankind | 1957 | | Queen Elizabeth I |
Raintree County | 1957 | | Ellen Shawnessy |
Jeanne Eagels | 1957 | | Nellie Neilson |
Climax! | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Irene / (segment "Child of the Wind") |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | |
The True Story of Jesse James | 1957 | | Mrs. Samuel |
Studio 57 | 1956 | TV Series | Mrs. Tolliver |
The Opposite Sex | 1956 | | Countess de Brion |
Pardners | 1956 | | Mrs. Matilda Kingsley |
The Revolt of Mamie Stover | 1956 | | Bertha Parchman |
Matinee Theatre | 1956 | TV Series | Mrs. Barnes |
The Swan | 1956 | | Queen Maria Dominika |
Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | | Miss Hattie |
The Conqueror | 1956 | | Hunlun |
The Left Hand of God | 1955 | | Beryl Sigman |
All That Heaven Allows | 1955 | | Sara Warren |
The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1955 | TV Series | Aunt Minnie |
Untamed | 1955 | | Aggie |
Magnificent Obsession | 1954 | | Nancy Ashford |
Those Redheads from Seattle | 1953 | | Mrs. Edmonds |
Main Street to Broadway | 1953 | | Mildred Waterbury |
The Revlon Mirror Theater | 1953 | TV Series | Martha Adams |
Scandal at Scourie | 1953 | | Sister Josephine |
The Story of Three Loves | 1953 | | Aunt Lydia (segment "The Jealous Lover") |
The Blazing Forest | 1952 | | Jessie Crain |
The Blue Veil | 1951 | | Mrs. Palfrey |
Show Boat | 1951 | | Parthy Hawks |
Adventures of Captain Fabian | 1951 | | Aunt Jezebel |
Fourteen Hours | 1951 | | Christine Hill Cosick |
Captain Blackjack | 1950 | | Mrs.Emily Birk |
Caged | 1950 | | Ruth Benton |
Without Honor | 1949 | | Katherine Williams |
The Great Sinner | 1949 | | Emma Getzel |
The Stratton Story | 1949 | | Ma Stratton |
Johnny Belinda | 1948 | | Aggie MacDonald |
Station West | 1948 | | Mrs. Caslon |
The Woman in White | 1948 | | Countess Fosco |
Summer Holiday | 1948 | | Cousin Lily |
The Lost Moment | 1947 | | Juliana Borderau |
Dark Passage | 1947 | | Madge Rapf |
Her Highness and the Bellboy | 1945 | | Countess Zoe |
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes | 1945 | | Bruna Jacobson |
Keep Your Powder Dry | 1945 | | Lieut. Colonel Spottiswoode |
Tomorrow, the World! | 1944 | | Aunt Jessie Frame |
Mrs. Parkington | 1944 | | Baroness Aspasia Conti |
The Seventh Cross | 1944 | | Mme. Marelli |
Dragon Seed | 1944 | | Third Cousin's Wife |
Since You Went Away | 1944 | | Mrs. Emily Hawkins |
Jane Eyre | 1943 | | Mrs. Reed |
Government Girl | 1943 | | Adele - Mrs. Delancey Wright |
The Youngest Profession | 1943 | | Miss Featherstone |
The Big Street | 1942 | | Violette Shumberg |
The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | | Fanny Minafer |
Journey Into Fear | 1942 | | Mrs. Mathews |
Citizen Kane | 1941 | | Mary Kane |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Charlotte's Web | 1973 | performer: "A Fair is a Veritable Schmorgasboard-orgasboard-orgasboard" | |
What's the Matter with Helen? | 1971 | performer: "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" | |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | 1966 | TV Movie "Alice Is Coming to Tea" Alicia viene a tomar el té., "There Are two Sides to Everything" Hay dos lados para todo., "Opening & Closing Theme" Tema de apertura y cierre. / performer: "Through the Looking Glass" opening & closing theme, "There Are two Sides to Everything", "Alice Is Coming to Tea", "Alice Is Coming to Tea" 2:44 | |
How the West Was Won | 1962 | performer: "Home in the Meadow" 1962 | |
Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | performer: "The Gal with the Yaller Shoes" | |
Summer Holiday | 1948 | performer: "Our Home Town", "The Stanley Steamer" - uncredited | |
Mrs. Parkington | 1944 | "The Wedding March" 1843, uncredited | |
The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | performer: "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" 1892 - uncredited | |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Girl Talk | 1963-1967 | TV Series | Herself |
The Merv Griffin Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
Password All-Stars | 1967 | TV Series | Herself - Celebrity Contestant |
The Hollywood Palace | 1966 | TV Series | Herself - Dramatic Reader |
The Celebrity Game | 1965 | TV Series | Herself |
The 37th Annual Academy Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Herself |
The 22th Annual Golden Globes Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture |
Chevrolet's Bewitching Bonanza | 1964 | Short | Herself |
You Don't Say | 1964 | TV Series | Herself |
Freedom Spectacular | 1964 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Shari Lewis Show | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
Camera Three | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
The Jerry Lester Show | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
Here's Hollywood | 1960 | TV Series | Herself |
About Faces | 1960 | TV Series | Herself |
Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood | 1958 | Documentary short | Herself |
Operation Raintree | 1957 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1967-1973 | TV Series | Herself |
The Dick Cavett Show | 1973 | TV Series | Herself |
What's My Line? | 1973 | TV Series | Herself - Guest Celebrity |
Laugh-In | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
It Was a Very Good Year | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
The Pet Set | 1971 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963-1970 | TV Series | Herself - Guest / Herself |
The Linkletter Show | 1970 | TV Series | Herself |
Della | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
Mr. Blackwell Presents | 1968 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Don Rickles Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The Jonathan Winters Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The Hollywood Squares | 1966-1968 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist |
The City of Gods | 1968 | Documentary | Narrator (English version, voice) |
The Pat Boone Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
Talking Pictures | 1968 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
The Woody Woodbury Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
Dateline: Hollywood | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2004 | TV Land Award | TV Land Awards | Favorite "Big, Bad Momma" | Bewitched (1964) |
1971 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Comedy | Bewitched (1964) |
1970 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Comedy | Bewitched (1964) |
1969 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series | Bewitched (1964) |
1968 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy | Bewitched (1964) |
1967 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Bewitched (1964) |
1966 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy | Bewitched (1964) |
1965 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) |
1949 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Johnny Belinda (1948) |
1945 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Mrs. Parkington (1944) |
1943 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) |
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