Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Moorehead , of her complete name Agnes Robertson Moorehead was a American Actrice , born the December 6th 1900 in Clinton, Massachusetts and deceased the April 30th 1974 with Rochester, Minnesota.

Actress experienced as well with the scene as with the screen, it is however especially known general public for her interpretation of Endora, the mother acariâtre of Samantha Stephens in the series My witch beloved (Bewitched). She was called " The Lavender Lady" because of its taste for the color violet.

Biography (elements)

Girl of Pasteur presbytérien of Irish origin, Agnes Moorehead is interested very early in the theater. After having obtained a diploma of literature, it makes its first appearances in Broadway, while following courses in American Academy off Dramatic Arts to New York. It also begins a prolific career with the radio, and takes part in the creation of Mercury Theater of Orson Welles. Besides it will follow Wells to the cinema, puiqu' it will interpret the role of the mother of Kane in the famous Citizen Kane and that of Fanny Minafer in the Splendor of Amberson, this last role being worth to him the first of its nominations to the Oscars.

In 1964, after a last nomination with the Oscars for its role in Chut… Chut, dear Charlotte of Robert Aldrich, it starts the first season of the televised series Bewitched . Thereafter, it will turn mainly for television.

Catalog of films

1940 : Citizen Kane of Orson Welles
1942: the Splendor of Amberson ( The Magnificent Ambersons ) of Orson Welles
1942: Voyage to the country of the fear ( Journey into fear ) of Norman Foster
1944: Since your departure ( Since You Went Away ) of John Cromwell
1944: the Seventh cross ( The Seventh Cross-country race ) of Fred Zinnemann
1944: Jane Eyre ( Jane Eyre ), of Robert Stevenson
1944: Mrs Parkington of Tay Garnett
1947: Passengers of the night ( Dark passage ) of Delmer Daves
1948: the City of the fear ( Station West ) of Sidney Lanfield
1949: fatal Passion ( The Great Sinner ) of Robert Siodmak
1950: Women out of cage ( Caged ) of John Cromwell
1951: Fourteen hours ( Fourteen hours ) of Henry Hathaway
1951: Black Jack of Julien Duvivier, Jose Antonio Nieves Cop
1951: the Tavern of New Orleans of William Marshall
1951: Show Boat of George Sidney
1953: History of three loves ( The Story off three coil ) Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
1954: the splendid Secrecy ( Magnificent Obsession ) of Douglas Sirk
1955: As long as will blow the storm ( Untamed ) of Henry King
1955: the beloved Brigand ( The True Story off Jesse James ) of Nicholas Ray
1955: All that the sky allows ( All that Heaven Allows ) of Douglas Sirk
1956: the Yellowbelly of Far-West ( Pardners ) of Norman Taurog
1956: the Swan ( The Swan ) of Charles Vidor
1956: Bungalow for women ( The revolt off Granny Stover ) of Raoul Walsh
1956: the Conqueror (The Conqueror) of Dick Powell
1957: the Tree of life ( Raintree County ) of Edward Dmytryk
1957: Only one love ( Jeanne Eagles ) of George Sidney
1961: the American one and the love ( Bachelor in paradise ) of Jack Arnold
1962: the Conquest of the West ( How the west was won ) of John Ford, Henry Hathaway
1963: a head of explosive department ( Who' S minding the blind? ) of Frank Tashlin
1964: Chut… Chut, dear Charlotte ( Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte ) of Robert Aldrich

Rewards

1942 : Nomination with the Oscars of the female best supporting role for the role of Fanny, in the Splendor of Amberson of Orson Welles
1944: Nomination with the Oscars of the female best supporting role for the role of Aspasia Conti, in Mrs Parkington of Tay Garnett
1944: Golden Globe for the female best supporting role in Mrs Parkington of Tay Garnett
1948: Nomination with the Oscars of the female best supporting role for the role of Aggie McDonald in Johnny Belinda of Jean Negulesco
1964: Nomination with the Oscars of the female best supporting role for the role of Velma Cruther in Chut… Chut… dear Charlotte of Robert Aldrich
1965: Golden Globe for the female best supporting role in Chut… Chut, dear Charlotte of Robert Aldrich
1967: Emmy Awards for the episode entitled “Night off the Vicious Valentine” in Mysteries of the West ( The Wild Wild West ).
1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971: nominations with the Emmy Awards for the role of Endora in Bewitched ( My beloved witch )

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