Ellen Corby
Born: 1911-06-03 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1999-04-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. She is best remembered for playing the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Corby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2017
1997
- A Walton Easter as Grandma Walton
1995
- A Walton Wedding as Grandma Walton
1993
- A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion as Grandma Walton
1982
- A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain as Esther Walton
- A Wedding on Waltons Mountain as Grandma Walton
1981
- All the Way Home as Great-Gandmaw
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd as Ma Floyd
1972
- The Waltons as Esther Walton
- Napoleon and Samantha as Gertrude
1971
- The Partners
- The Homecoming: A Christmas Story as Esther Walton
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Abigail
- Cannon as Teacher
- A Tattered Web as Mrs. Simmons
1970
- The Odd Couple as Florence
- Night Gallery as Miss Patience
- Nanny and the Professor as Mrs. Kaufman
- Dan August as Agnes Oaks
1969
- Hawaii Five-O as Mrs. Feathertree
- Love, American Style as The Little Old Lady
- The Bill Cosby Show as Mrs. Hilberman
1968
- Adam-12 as Camille Gearhardt
- Lancer
- The Outsider
- The Legend of Lylah Clare as Script Girl
- A Fine Pair as Maddy Walker
1967
- Ironside as Agnes Fairchild
- The High Chaparral as Mrs. Dilts
- The Invaders as Aunt Sara
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Molly Cobb
- Judd, for the Defense as Prison matron
- Mr. Terrific as Mrs. Walters
- Rango
- The Gnome-Mobile as Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
1966
- Batman as Mrs. Green
- Felony Squad
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Madame Bloor
- CBS Playhouse
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken as Neva Tremaine
- The Glass Bottom Boat as Anna Miller
- The Night of the Grizzly as Hazel Squires
1965
- Get Smart as Agnes Davenport
- The F.B.I. as Mrs. Stone
- The Big Valley as Emmie Pearson
- Laredo
- Honey West as 'Nellie Peedy'
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Martha O'Reilly
- The Family Jewels as Airline Passenger
1964
- Daniel Boone as Hilda Brock
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as Mother
- The Addams Family as Mother Lurch
- The Baileys of Balboa as Miss Engeldorf
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Lily
- The Strangler as Mrs. Kroll
1963
- The Fugitive as Mrs. Barlow
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Miss Purdy
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Vacation Playhouse
- 4 for Texas as Widow
- The Caretakers as Irene
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as The Chief Nurse
- The Virginian as Mrs. Clancy
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Emma Poke
- The Lucy Show as Miss Tanner
- Going My Way
- Saints and Sinners as Mrs. Healy
- Saintly Sinners as Mrs. McKenzie
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Ainsley Hallie
- Ben Casey
- Hazel as Miss Minnie
- 87th Precinct as Mrs. Brodek
- The Asphalt Jungle as Mrs. Peterson
- Pocketful of Miracles as Soho Sal
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Myrt 'Hubcaps' Lesh
- Thriller as Mrs. Peele
- Surfside 6 as Addie Horton
- The Tall Man as Hannah Blossom
- The Chevy Mystery Show as Maria
- Visit to a Small Planet as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry
- Tom, Dick and Harriet as Aunt Emily
1959
- Bonanza as Lorna Doone Mayberry
- Dennis the Menace as Miss Douglas
- Adventures in Paradise as Sister Julia
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Mrs. Walters
- The Rebel as Carrie Blyden
- Lock-Up
- Tightrope as Hazel Mason
1958
- The Rifleman as Mrs. Avery
- The Donna Reed Show as Christine Moss
- 77 Sunset Strip as Martha Ward
- Peter Gunn
- The Texan as Katy Clayton
- Bronco as Emma Hardin
- Vertigo as Manager of McKittrick Hotel
- As Young As We Are as Nettie McPherson
- Macabre as Miss Kushins
1957
- Perry Mason as Old Lady Card Player
- Wagon Train as Aunt Em
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Harriet Smith
- Trackdown as Henrietta Porter
- Alcoa Theatre as Elvira Moss
- The Restless Gun as Ruth Purcell
- All Mine to Give as Mrs. Raiden
- Night Passage as Mrs. Feeney
- The Seventh Sin as Sister Saint Joseph
- God Is My Partner as Mrs. Dalton
- Rockabilly Baby as Mrs. Wellington
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Slightly Scarlet as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)
- Stagecoach To Fury as Sarah Farrell
1955
- Matinee Theater
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Mrs. Jane McGill
- Cheyenne as Hortense Durango
- The Bob Cummings Show as Nurse
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Maggie Ryan
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Minerva Comstock
- The Millionaire as Nancy Marlborough
- Illegal as Miss Hinkel
1954
- Lassie as Amy Baker
- Studio 57
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Woman at Burton Ridge Land Office
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sally Benton
- The Whistler
- Hey Mulligan as Martha
- Sabrina as Miss McCardie
- Susan Slept Here as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)
- About Mrs. Leslie as Mrs. Croffman
- The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters as Amelia Gravesend
- Untamed Heiress as Mrs. Flanny
1953
- You Are There
- Letter to Loretta as Jennie
- The Man Behind the Badge
- Shane as Liz Torrey
- Revlon Mirror Theatre as Mrs. Logan
- General Electric Theater as Frankie, Joan's maid
- Woman They Almost Lynched as First Townswoman
- The Vanquished as Mrs. Barbour
- A Lion Is in the Streets as Singing Woman
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Elsie
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Aunt Ellen
- The Ford Television Theatre as Mabel
- Chevron Theatre
- My Hero as Henrietta Sullivan
- The Big Trees as Sister Blackburn
- Fearless Fagan as Mrs. Ardley
- Monsoon as Katie
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Little Old Lady
- I Love Lucy as Miss Hanna
- Dragnet
- Angels in the Outfield as Sister Veronica
- Here Comes the Groom as Mrs. McGonigle
- On Moonlight Bay as Miss Mary Stevens
- The Sea Hornet as Mrs. Drinkwater
- The Mating Season as Annie
- Goodbye, My Fancy as Miss Birdshaw
- The Barefoot Mailman as Miss Della (uncredited)
1950
- Lux Video Theatre
- The Gunfighter as Mrs. Devlin
- Caged as Emma Barber
- Edge of Doom as Jeanette Moore
- Harriet Craig as Lottie
- Peggy as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian
- Captain China as Miss Endicott
1949
- Little Women as Sophie
- Mighty Joe Young as Orphanage matron (uncredited)
- Madame Bovary as Félicité
- A Woman's Secret as Nurse who reads paper to Susan
- Rusty Saves a Life as Miss Simmons
1948
- I Remember Mama as Aunt Trina
- The Noose Hangs High as Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
- The Dark Past as Agnes (uncredited)
- Fighting Father Dunne as Colpeck's Secretary
- Strike It Rich as Annie Harkins
1947
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- They Won't Believe Me as Screaming Woman in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Forever Amber as Marge
- The Long Night as Observer in Crowd (uncredited)
- Living in a Big Way as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)
- Born to Kill as Maid (uncredited)
- The Judge Steps Out as Mother at Party (uncredited)
- The Unfaithful as Courtroom Spectator
- Railroaded! as Mrs. Wills (uncredited)
- Beat the Band as Gertrude's Mother
- The Fabulous Joe as Cathy, the Maid
- Hoppy's Holiday ... (Story)
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Ms. Davis (uncredited)
- Bedlam as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)
- The Locket as Ginny (uncredited)
- The Dark Corner as Maid (uncredited)
- The Spiral Staircase as Neighbour (uncredited)
- From This Day Forward as Mother
- Sister Kenny as Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)
- The Truth About Murder as Betty
- Crack-Up as Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)
- Lover Come Back as Rita
1945
- Cornered as Swiss Maid (uncredited)
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1941
- Twilight on the Trail ... (Screenplay)
1936
- The Broken Coin as Bit Part (uncredited)
1935
- Speed Limited as Secretary
1934
- Babes in Toyland as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)
1933
- Sons of the Desert as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)
- Rafter Romance as Telemarketer (uncredited)