Elizabeth Montgomery
Born: 1933-04-15 in Hollywood, California, USA
Died: 1995-05-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American film and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered as the star of the TV series Bewitched. The daughter of Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series Robert Montgomery Presents. In the 1960s, she rose to fame as Samantha Stephens on the ABC sitcom Bewitched. Her work on the series earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations. After Bewitched ended its run in 1972, Montgomery continued her career with roles in numerous television films. In 1974, she portrayed Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and Lizzie Borden in the 1975 television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Both roles earned her additional Emmy Award nominations. Montgomery was married four times, most notably to actor producer/director William Asher with whom she had three children. Her final marriage was to actor Robert Foxworth, with whom she lived for twenty years before marrying in 1993. Montgomery died of colorectal cancer in May 1995, eight weeks after being diagnosed with the disease.
Filmography
2023
- Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self/Samantha Stephens (archive footage)
2022
- Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive video)
1995
- Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan as Edna Buchanan
1994
- Super 8½ as Insane Woman
- A Bewitched Christmas as Samantha Stephens
- The Corpse Had a Familiar Face as Edna Buchanan
1993
- Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story as Blanche Taylor Moore
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as Barmaid (voice)
- With Murder in Mind as Gayle Wolfer
- The Panama Deception as Narrator
1991
- Sins of the Mother as Ruth Coe
1990
- Face to Face as Dr. Diana Firestone
1988
- Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair as Narrator
1985
- Amos as Daisy Daws
- Between the Darkness and the Dawn as Abigail Foster
1984
- Second Sight: A Love Story as Alexandra McKay
1983
- Missing Pieces as Sara Scott
1982
- The Rules of Marriage as Joan Hagen
1981
- When the Circus Came to Town as Mary Flynn
1980
- Belle Starr as Belle Starr
1979
- Jennifer: A Woman’s Story as Jennifer Prince
- Act of Violence as Catherine McSweeney
1978
- Challenge of the Super Friends
- The Awakening Land as Sayward Luckett Wheeler
1977
- A Killing Affair as Vikki Eaton
1976
- Dark Victory as Katherine Merrill
1975
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Lizzie Borden
1974
- A Case of Rape as Ellen Harrod
- Mrs. Sundance as Etta Place
1972
- The Victim as Kate Wainwright
1965
- How to Stuff a Wild Bikini as Bwana's Daughter, The Witches Witch (uncredited)
1964
- Bewitched as Samantha Stephens
- Bikini Beach as Lady Bug (voice)
1963
- Burke's Law as Stacey Evans
- Johnny Cool as Darien 'Dare' Guiness
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Mellisa Morris
1962
- Saints and Sinners as Eadie Donelli
1961
- Frontier Circus as Karina Andrews
- The Spiral Staircase as Helen Warren
1960
- The Flintstones as Samantha Stephens (voice)
- Thriller as Rosamond Denham
- Checkmate as Vicki Page
- Bells Are Ringing as Girl Reading Book (uncredited)
- The Tab Hunter Show as Hilary Fairfield
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Woman
- The Untouchables as Rusty Heller
- Rawhide as Rose Cornelius
- One Step Beyond as Lillie Clarke
- Riverboat as Abigail Carruthers
- Johnny Staccato
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Charlotte Delavalle
- Bitter Heritage as Mary Brecker
1957
- Suspicion as Ellen
1956
- Tony Awards as Self
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Karen Adams
- Patterns as Ann Evans
- Summer Pavilion as Helen Durand
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell as Margaret Lansdowne
- Appointment with Adventure
1954
- Climax! as Betsy
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Millie
- Kraft Television Theatre
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Diana Firestone
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Susan Ward
1948
- Studio One as Helen Durand
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre as Ann Evans