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
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Abigail
- A Tattered Web as Mrs. Simmons
- The Homecoming: A Christmas Story as Esther Walton
- Cannon as Teacher
1970
- Night Gallery as Miss Patience
- The Odd Couple as Florence
- Nanny and the Professor as Mrs. Kaufman
- Dan August as Agnes Oaks
1969
- Love, American Style as The Little Old Lady
- The Bill Cosby Show as Mrs. Hilberman
1968
- Adam-12 as Camille Gearhardt
- Hawaii Five-O as Mrs. Feathertree
- Lancer
- The Outsider
- The Legend of Lylah Clare as Script Girl
- A Fine Pair as Maddy Walker
1967
- Ironside as Agnes Fairchild
- The Invaders as Aunt Sara
- The High Chaparral as Mrs. Dilts
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Molly Cobb
- Rango
- Mr. Terrific as Mrs. Walters
- The Gnome-Mobile as Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
1966
- Batman as Mrs. Green
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Madame Bloor
- Felony Squad
- CBS Playhouse
- The Glass Bottom Boat as Anna Miller
- The Night of the Grizzly as Hazel Squires
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken as Neva Tremaine
1965
- Get Smart as Agnes Davenport
- The Big Valley as Emmie Pearson
- The F.B.I. as Mrs. Stone
- 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
- The Addams Family as Mother Lurch
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as Mother
- The Baileys of Balboa
- 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
- Vacation Playhouse
- The Farmer's Daughter
- 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
- The Rebel as Carrie Blyden
- Adventures in Paradise as Sister Julia
- Dennis the Menace as Miss Douglas
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Mrs. Walters
- Lock-Up
- Tightrope as Hazel Mason
1958
- The Rifleman as Mrs. Avery
- Peter Gunn
- 77 Sunset Strip as Martha Ward
- The Donna Reed Show as Christine Moss
- The Texan as Katy Clayton
- Bronco as Emma Hardin
- Vertigo as Manager of McKittrick Hotel
- Macabre as Miss Kushins
- As Young As We Are as Nettie McPherson
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
- Night Passage as Mrs. Feeney
- All Mine to Give as Mrs. Raiden
- The Seventh Sin as Sister Saint Joseph
- Rockabilly Baby as Mrs. Wellington
- God Is My Partner as Mrs. Dalton
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Slightly Scarlet as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)
- Stagecoach To Fury as Sarah Farrell
1955
- Cheyenne as Hortense Durango
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Mrs. Jane McGill
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Maggie Ryan
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Minerva Comstock
- The Millionaire as Nancy Marlborough
- The Bob Cummings Show as Nurse
- Illegal as Miss Hinkel
1954
- Lassie as Amy Baker
- Studio 57
- Sabrina as Miss McCardie
- The Whistler
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sally Benton
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Woman at Burton Ridge Land Office
- Hey Mulligan as Martha
- Susan Slept Here as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)
- The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters as Amelia Gravesend
- About Mrs. Leslie as Mrs. Croffman
- Untamed Heiress as Mrs. Flanny
1953
- The Man Behind the Badge
- Shane as Liz Torrey
- Letter to Loretta as Jennie
- Revlon Mirror Theatre as Mrs. Logan
- General Electric Theater as Frankie, Joan's maid
- Woman They Almost Lynched as First Townswoman
- A Lion Is in the Streets as Singing Woman
- The Vanquished as Mrs. Barbour
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Elsie
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Aunt Ellen
- The Ford Television Theatre as Mabel
- Chevron Theatre
- The Big Trees as Sister Blackburn
- Fearless Fagan as Mrs. Ardley
- My Hero as Henrietta Sullivan
- Monsoon as Katie
1951
- Dragnet
- I Love Lucy as Miss Hanna
- The Red Skelton Show as Little Old Lady
- Angels in the Outfield as Sister Veronica
- The Mating Season as Annie
- On Moonlight Bay as Miss Mary Stevens
- Here Comes the Groom as Mrs. McGonigle
- Goodbye, My Fancy as Miss Birdshaw
- The Sea Hornet as Mrs. Drinkwater
- The Barefoot Mailman as Miss Della (uncredited)
1950
- Lux Video Theatre
- Caged as Emma Barber
- The Gunfighter as Mrs. Devlin
- Peggy as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian
- Edge of Doom as Jeanette Moore
- Harriet Craig as Lottie
- Captain China as Miss Endicott
1949
- Little Women as Sophie
- Mighty Joe Young as Orphanage matron (uncredited)
- A Woman's Secret as Nurse who reads paper to Susan
- Madame Bovary as Félicité
- Rusty Saves a Life as Miss Simmons
1948
- I Remember Mama as Aunt Trina
- The Dark Past as Agnes (uncredited)
- The Noose Hangs High as Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
- Fighting Father Dunne as Colpeck's Secretary
- Strike It Rich as Annie Harkins
1947
- Forever Amber as Marge
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- Born to Kill as Maid (uncredited)
- Living in a Big Way as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)
- The Long Night as Observer in Crowd (uncredited)
- The Unfaithful as Courtroom Spectator
- The Judge Steps Out as Mother at Party (uncredited)
- They Won't Believe Me as Screaming Woman in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Railroaded! as Mrs. Wills (uncredited)
- The Fabulous Joe as Cathy, the Maid
- Hoppy's Holiday ... (Story)
- Beat the Band as Gertrude's Mother
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Ms. Davis (uncredited)
- The Spiral Staircase as Neighbour (uncredited)
- The Dark Corner as Maid (uncredited)
- Sister Kenny as Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)
- The Locket as Ginny (uncredited)
- Bedlam as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)
- Crack-Up as Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)
- Lover Come Back as Rita
- From This Day Forward as Mother
- The Truth About Murder as Betty
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)