Ellen Corby
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).
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Acting History
1997
A Walton Easter as Grandma Walton
1995A Walton Wedding as Grandma Walton
1993A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion as Grandma Walton
1982A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain as Esther Walton
1982A Wedding on Waltons Mountain as Grandma Walton
1981All the Way Home as Great-Gandmaw
1974Dinah! as Self
1974The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd as Ma Floyd
1972The Waltons as Esther Walton
1972Napoleon and Samantha as Gertrude
1971The Homecoming: A Christmas Story as Esther Walton
1971A Tattered Web as Mrs. Simmons
1971The Partners
1971Support Your Local Gunfighter as Abigail
1971Cannon as Teacher
1970Night Gallery as Miss Patience
1970The Odd Couple as Florence
1970Dan August as Agnes Oaks
1970Nanny and the Professor as Mrs. Kaufman
1969Love, American Style as The Little Old Lady
1969Love, American Style as Granny Gambler
1969The Bill Cosby Show as Mrs. Hilberman
1968A Fine Pair as Maddy Walker
1968Lancer
1968Adam-12 as Camille Gearhardt
1968Adam-12 as Mrs. Cunningham
1968Hawaii Five-O as Mrs. Feathertree
1968The Outsider
1968The Legend of Lylah Clare as Script Girl
1967The High Chaparral as Mrs. Dilts
1967The Guns of Will Sonnett as Molly Cobb
1967The Gnome-Mobile as Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
1967Ironside as Agnes Fairchild
1967Rango
1967The Invaders as Aunt Sara
1967Mr. Terrific as Mrs. Walters
1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Madame Bloor
1966Felony Squad
1966The Glass Bottom Boat as Anna Miller
1966The Night of the Grizzly as Hazel Squires
1966The Ghost & Mr. Chicken as Neva Tremaine
1966Batman as Mrs. Green
1965The F.B.I. as Mrs. Stone
1965The F.B.I. as Elizabeth Page
1965The F.B.I. as Mary Carmichael
1965The F.B.I. as Hannah Beecher
1965The F.B.I. as Aunt Florrie Buell
1965The F.B.I. as Mrs. Anderson
1965Get Smart as Agnes Davenport
1965Honey West as 'Nellie Peedy'
1965Laredo
1965The Big Valley as Emmie Pearson
1965Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Martha O'Reilly
1965The Family Jewels as Airline Passenger
1964Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Lily
1964Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as Mother
1964Daniel Boone as Hilda Brock
1964The Baileys of Balboa
1964The Addams Family as Mother Lurch
1964The Strangler as Mrs. Kroll
19634 for Texas as Widow
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Miss Purdy
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Charlotte
1963The Farmer's Daughter
1963The Fugitive as Mrs. Barlow
1963The Fugitive as Mrs. Murdock
1963The Caretakers as Irene
1963Vacation Playhouse
1962Going My Way
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Lucy Show as Miss Tanner
1962The Lucy Show as Woman in Park
1962The Beverly Hillbillies as Emma Poke
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as The Chief Nurse
1962The Virginian as Mrs. Clancy
1962Saints and Sinners as Mrs. Healy
1962Saintly Sinners as Mrs. McKenzie
1961Pocketful of Miracles as Soho Sal
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961Ben Casey
1961Hazel as Miss Minnie
1961Hazel as Minerva Anderson
1961Dr. Kildare as Ainsley Hallie
196187th Precinct as Mrs. Brodek
1961The Asphalt Jungle as Mrs. Peterson
1960Surfside 6 as Addie Horton
1960The Andy Griffith Show as Myrt 'Hubcaps' Lesh
1960Thriller as Mrs. Peele
1960The Tall Man as Hannah Blossom
1960The Chevy Mystery Show as Maria
1960Visit to a Small Planet as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry
1960Tom, Dick and Harriet as Aunt Emily
1959Adventures in Paradise as Sister Julia
1959The Rebel as Carrie Blyden
1959Dennis the Menace as Miss Douglas
1959Lock-Up
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Mrs. Walters
1959Bonanza as Lorna Doone Mayberry
1959Bonanza as Cora Milford
1959Tightrope as Hazel Mason
195877 Sunset Strip as Martha Ward
1958Macabre as Miss Kushins
1958The Rifleman as Mrs. Morgan
1958The Rifleman as Mrs. Avery
1958The Texan as Katy Clayton
1958The Donna Reed Show as Christine Moss
1958Bronco
1958Peter Gunn
1958As Young As We Are as Nettie McPherson
1958Vertigo as Manager of McKittrick Hotel
1957All Mine to Give as Mrs. Raiden
1957Rockabilly Baby as Mrs. Wellington
1957Trackdown as Henrietta Porter
1957Trackdown as Henrietta
1957Alcoa Theatre as Elvira Moss
1957The Restless Gun as Ruth Purcell
1957The Restless Gun as Emma Birch
1957The Restless Gun as Mrs. Amy Morgan
1957Perry Mason as Old Lady Card Player
1957Wagon Train as Aunt Em
1957Night Passage as Mrs. Feeney
1957Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Harriet Smith
1957Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Miss Carter
1957God Is My Partner as Mrs. Dalton
1957The Seventh Sin as Sister Saint Joseph
1956Stagecoach To Fury as Sarah Farrell
1956The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956Slightly Scarlet as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)
1955Matinee Theater
1955Illegal as Miss Hinkel
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour as Minerva Comstock
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Maggie Ryan
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Marie McGurk
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Miss Samantha
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Emma
1955Cheyenne as Hortense Durango
1955The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Mrs. Jane McGill
1955The Millionaire as Nancy Marlborough
1955The Millionaire as Bedelia Buckley
1955The Bob Cummings Show as Nurse
1954The Wonderful World of Disney as Woman at Burton Ridge Land Office
1954The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sally Benton
1954Studio 57
1954Lassie as Bess Wright
1954Lassie as Amy Baker
1954Lassie as Pearlie Mae
1954Lassie as Pearlie Mae Yochim
1954Sabrina as Miss McCardie
1954Hey Mulligan as Martha
1954About Mrs. Leslie as Mrs. Croffman
1954Susan Slept Here as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)
1954The Whistler
1954The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters as Amelia Gravesend
1954Untamed Heiress as Mrs. Flanny
1953The Man Behind the Badge
1953A Lion Is in the Streets as Singing Woman
1953Letter to Loretta as Jennie
1953Revlon Mirror Theatre as Mrs. Logan
1953Revlon Mirror Theatre as Clara
1953The Vanquished as Mrs. Barbour
1953Shane as Liz Torrey
1953Woman They Almost Lynched as First Townswoman
1953General Electric Theater as Frankie, Joan's maid
1953General Electric Theater as Ma Jericho
1953General Electric Theater as Gracie Jordan
1952My Hero as Henrietta Sullivan
1952Monsoon as Katie
1952The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Aunt Ellen
1952The Ford Television Theatre as Mabel
1952Four Star Playhouse as Elsie
1952Four Star Playhouse as Martha - Maid
1952Fearless Fagan as Mrs. Ardley
1952The Big Trees as Sister Blackburn
1952Chevron Theatre
1951Dragnet
1951The Barefoot Mailman as Miss Della (uncredited)
1951The Sea Hornet as Mrs. Drinkwater
1951Angels in the Outfield as Sister Veronica
1951I Love Lucy as Miss Hanna
1951The Red Skelton Show as Little Old Lady
1951Here Comes the Groom as Mrs. McGonigle
1951On Moonlight Bay as Miss Mary Stevens
1951Goodbye, My Fancy as Miss Birdshaw
1951The Mating Season as Annie
1950Harriet Craig as Lottie
1950Lux Video Theatre
1950Lux Video Theatre as Nurse
1950Lux Video Theatre as Norah
1950Lux Video Theatre as Lavinia Penniman
1950Lux Video Theatre as Aunt
1950Lux Video Theatre as Harriet
1950Lux Video Theatre as Martha
1950Edge of Doom as Jeanette Moore
1950Peggy as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian
1950The Gunfighter as Mrs. Devlin
1950Caged as Emma Barber
1950Captain China as Miss Endicott
1949Madame Bovary as Félicité
1949Mighty Joe Young as Orphanage matron (uncredited)
1949Little Women as Sophie
1949Rusty Saves a Life as Miss Simmons
1949A Woman's Secret as Nurse who reads paper to Susan
1948The Dark Past as Agnes (uncredited)
1948Strike It Rich as Annie Harkins
1948Fighting Father Dunne as Colpeck's Secretary
1948The Noose Hangs High as Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
1948I Remember Mama as Aunt Trina
1947The Judge Steps Out as Mother at Party (uncredited)
1947Forever Amber as Marge
1947Railroaded! as Mrs. Wills (uncredited)
1947The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1947The Fabulous Joe as Cathy, the Maid
1947They Won't Believe Me
1947The Unfaithful as Courtroom Spectator
1947Living in a Big Way as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)
1947The Long Night as Observer in Crowd (uncredited)
1947Born to Kill as Maid (uncredited)
1947Beat the Band as Gertrude's Mother
1946It's a Wonderful Life as Ms. Davis (uncredited)
1946The Locket as Ginny (uncredited)
1946Sister Kenny as Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)
1946Crack-Up as Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)
1946Lover Come Back as Rita
1946Bedlam as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)
1946The Dark Corner as Maid (uncredited)
1946The Truth About Murder as Betty
1946From This Day Forward as Mother
1946The Spiral Staircase as Neighbour (uncredited)
1945Cornered as Swiss Maid (uncredited)
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1936The Broken Coin as Bit Part (uncredited)
1935Speed Limited as Secretary
1934Babes in Toyland as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)
1933Sons of the Desert as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)
1933Rafter Romance as Telemarketer (uncredited)
—Because I Love Him as Mrs. Logan