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|---|---|
| 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 [1] |
Agnes Moorehead portrayed Samantha Stephens' mother, Endora, who disapproves of her daughter's marriage to a mortal.
Biography
Agnes Moorehead was born on December 6, 1900, in Clinton, Massachusetts. She 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. [2]
Agnes Moorehead died on April 30, 1974, in Rochester, Minnesota. She was 73.[3]
Trivia
She voiced the role of The Goose in Charlotte's Web (1973), which also starred Bewitched alumni Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Dave Madden, Danny Bonaduce, Don Messick, Pamelyn Ferdin and Herb Vigran.[4]
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 |
References
- ↑ Agnes Moorehead on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on November 5, 2019.
- ↑ Agnes Moorehead on Brittanica.com. Retrieved on December 1, 2019.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Charlotte's Web (1973) on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on April 22, 2022.
