Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Moorehead
Credits
Role	Endora
Biographical Information
Birthdate	December 6, 1900
Birthplace	Clinton, Massachusetts, United States
Death Date	April 30, 1974 (age 73)
Death Place	Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Agnes Moorehead portrayed Samantha Stephens' mother, Endora, who disapproves of her daughter's marriage to a mortal.

Biography

Agnes Moorehead was a versatile American actress who is best remembered for her portrayals of strong, eccentric characters and whose career extended to radio, the stage, film and television.

Moorehead began performing as a child, and as a young adult she sang on local radio programs. She attended Muskingum College, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Bradley University, receiving a Ph.D. in literature. She taught high school for a time while attending the American Academy of Performing Arts in New York City. She made her stage debut in 1929 but in the 1930s returned to radio, and her voice was heard regularly on such programs as "The Shadow" and such radio dramas as “Sorry, Wrong Number". During these years she met the actor and director Orson Welles and joined his Mercury Theatre. Welles cast Moorehead in his landmark film "Citizen Kane" (1941), in which she gave a subtle yet powerful performance as Kane’s mother. The following year Moorehead gave perhaps her finest performance, as Fanny Minafer in Welles’ "The Magnificent Ambersons". She was honoured for her highly wrought portrayal of a sexually repressed spinster.

Moorehead appeared in a number of films and television shows during the following decades, often, perhaps owing to typecasting, playing the role of a somewhat unbalanced character. Many recognize her largely from her role on the television series Bewitched (September 1964 to July 1972), in which Moorehead played the sarcastic and elegant witch Endora.

Bewitched Credits

Episode	Airdate
I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha	September 17, 1964
Be It Ever So Mortgaged	September 24, 1964
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog	October 1, 1964
Mother Meets What's-His-Name	October 8, 1964
Help, Help, Don't Save Me	October 15, 1964
Witch or Wife?	November 5, 1964
Just One Happy Family	November 19, 1964
It Takes One to Know One	November 26, 1964
A Is for Aardvark	January 14, 1965
The Cat's Meow	January 21, 1965
A Nice Little Dinner Party	January 27, 1965
Your Witch Is Showing	February 4, 1965
Eye of the Beholder	February 25, 1965
Red Light, Green Light	March 4, 1965
Which Witch Is Which?	March 11, 1965
Driving Is the Only Way to Fly	March 25, 1965
Open the Door, Witchcraft	April 8, 1965
George the Warlock	April 22, 1965
A Change of Face	May 13, 1965
Remember the Main	May 20, 1965
Eat at Mario's	May 27, 1965
Cousin Edgar	June 3, 1965
Alias Darrin Stephens	September 18, 1965
A Very Special Delivery	September 23, 1965
My Grandson, the Warlock	October 7, 1965
The Joker Is a Card	October 14, 1965
Trick or Treat	October 28, 1965
And Then I Wrote	November 11, 1965
Junior Executive	November 18, 1965
Aunt Clara's Old Flame	November 25, 1965
My Boss, the Teddy Bear	December 9, 1965
Speak the Truth	December 16, 1965
And Then There Were Three	January 13, 1966
The Dancing Bear	February 10, 1966
Double Tate	February 17, 1966
Samantha, the Dressmaker	February 24, 1966
Baby's First Paragraph	March 10, 1966
Disappearing Samantha	April 7, 1966
Divided He Falls	May 5, 1966
The Catnapper	May 19, 1966
What Every Young Man Should Know	May 26, 1966
The Girl with the Golden Nose	June 2, 1966
Nobody's Perfect	September 15, 1966
Witches and Warlocks Are My Favorite Things	September 29, 1966
A Most Unusual Wood Nymph	October 13, 1966
Endora Moves in for a Spell	October 20, 1966
Twitch or Treat	October 27, 1966
Dangerous Diaper Dan	November 3, 1966
I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight	November 17, 1966
Oedipus Hex	November 24, 1966
Sam's Spooky Chair	December 1, 1966
Sam in the Moon	January 1, 1967
Ho Ho the Clown	January 12, 1967
Super Car	January 19, 1967
The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara	February 2, 1967
Three Wishes	February 9, 1967
I Remember You...Sometimes	February 16, 1967
Art for Sam's Sake	February 23, 1967
Charlie Harper, Winner	March 2, 1967
The Crone of Cawdor	March 16, 1967
No More Mr. Nice Guy	March 23, 1967
It's Wishcraft	March 30, 1967
How to Fail in Business with All Kinds of Help	April 6, 1967
There's Gold in Them Thar Pills	May 4, 1967
Long Live the Queen	September 7, 1967
Toys in Babeland	September 14, 1967
Business, Italian Style	September 21, 1967
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble	September 28, 1967
Cheap, Cheap	October 5, 1967
No Zip in My Zap	October 12, 1967
Birdies, Bogeys and Baxter	October 19, 1967
Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds	November 16, 1967
Solid Gold Mother-in-Law	November 30, 1967
My, What Big Ears You Have	December 7, 1967
I Get Your Nannie, You Get My Goat	December 14, 1967
Once in a Vial	January 4, 1968
Snob in the Grass	January 11, 1968
If They Never Met	January 25, 1968
A Prince of a Guy	February 8, 1968
To Twitch or Not to Twitch	March 14, 1968
Tabatha's Cranky Spell	March 28, 1968
The Man of the Year	May 2, 1968
Samantha's Wedding Present	September 26, 1968
Samantha on the Keyboard	October 10, 1968
Darrin, Gone and Forgotten	October 17, 1968
It's So Nice to Have a Spouse Around the House	October 24, 1968
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall	November 7, 1968
Instant Courtesy	December 26, 1968
Samantha's Super Maid	January 2, 1969
One Touch of Midas	January 23, 1969
Samantha the Bard	January 30, 1969
Samantha the Sculptress	February 6, 1969
Going Ape	February 27, 1969
Tabitha's Weekend	March 6, 1969
The Battle of Burning Oak	March 13, 1969
Samantha's Power Failure	March 20, 1969
Samantha Twitches for UNICEF	March 27, 1969
Daddy Does His Thing	April 4, 1969
Samantha's Good News	April 10, 1969
Samantha's Shopping Spree	April 17, 1969
Samantha and Darrin in Mexico City	April 24, 1969
Samantha and the Beanstalk	September 18, 1969
Samantha's Yoo-Hoo Maid	September 25, 1969
Samantha's Curious Cravings	October 9, 1969
...And Something Makes Four	October 16, 1969
Naming Samantha's New Baby	October 23, 1969
To Trick or Treat or Not to Trick or Treat	October 30, 1969
Samantha's Secret Spell	November 13, 1969
You're So Agreeable	December 11, 1969
Samantha's Better Halves	January 1, 1970
The Phrase Is Familiar	January 15, 1970
Samantha's Secret Is Discovered	January 22, 1970
What Makes Darrin Run?	February 12, 1970
The Generation Zap	March 5, 1970
Okay, Who's the Wise Witch?	March 12, 1970
If the Shoe Pinches	March 26, 1970
Mona Sammy	April 2, 1970
Turn on the Old Charm	April 9, 1970
To Go or Not to Go, That Is the Question	September 24, 1970
The Salem Saga	October 8, 1970
Samantha's Hot Bedwarmer	October 15, 1970
Samantha's Bad Day in Salem	November 5, 1970
Samantha's Old Salem Trip	November 12, 1970
Samantha's Pet Warlock	November 19, 1970
Samantha's Old Man	December 3, 1970
The Corsican Cousins	December 10, 1970
Samantha's Magic Potion	December 17, 1970
Mother-in-Law of the Year	January 14, 1971
The Return of Darrin the Bold	February 4, 1971
This Little Piggie	February 25, 1971
Mixed Doubles	March 4, 1971
Money Happy Returns	March 18, 1971
Out of the Mouths of Babes	March 25, 1971
Laugh, Clown, Laugh	April 15, 1971
How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (Part 1)	September 15, 1971
How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (Part 2)	September 22, 1971
Bewitched, Bothered and Baldoni	October 13, 1971
Paris, Witches Style	October 20, 1971
A Plague on Maurice and Samantha	November 10, 1971
The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit	December 1, 1971
The Eight-Year Itch Witch	December 8, 1971
Three Men and a Witch on a Horse	December 15, 1971
Adam, Warlock or Washout?	December 29, 1971
Samantha on Thin Ice	January 29, 1972
School Days, School Daze	March 4, 1972
A Good Turn Never Goes Unpunished	March 11, 1972
The Truth, Nothing but the Truth, So Help Me Sam	March 25, 1972