Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12/6/1900
Place of Birth
Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
Agnes Robertson Moorehead
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 nomination...
Known For
Jeanne Eagels
as Nellie Neilson
The Conqueror
as Hunlun
Summer Holiday
as Cousin Lily
Pollyanna
as Mrs. Snow
Station West
as Mrs. Mary Caslon
How the West Was Won
as Rebecca Prescott
Magnificent Obsession
as Nancy Ashford
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Parkington
as Baroness Aspasia Conti
Pardners
as Mrs. Matilda Kingsley
The Swan
as Queen Maria Dominika
Raintree County
as Ellen Shawnessy
Tempest
as Vassilissa Mironova
The Story of Three Loves
as Aunt Lydia
The True Story of Jesse James
as Mrs. Samuel
Untamed
as Aggie (Kildare's governess)
The Singing Nun
as Sister Cluny
Caged
as Ruth Benton
The Big Street
as Violette Shumberg
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Velma Cruther
Career Timeline
1974
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1966
1964
1963
1962
1961
1959
1958
1957
Raintree County
as Ellen Shawnessy
The Story of Mankind
as Queen Elizabeth I
Alcoa Theatre
as Mrs. Adams
Suspicion
as Katherine Searles
DuPont Show of the Month
as Madame Defarge
Wagon Train
as Mary Halstead
Operation Raintree
as Self
Jeanne Eagels
as Nellie Neilson
The True Story of Jesse James
as Mrs. Samuel
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
as Ma Crater
Not One Shall Die
as Hannah Lessing