Ellen Corby

Ellen Corby

  • Birthday: 1911-06-03
  • Deathday: 1999-04-14
  • Place of birth: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
  • Also know as: Ellen Hansen

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

Pocketful of Miracles

1961

As Soho Sal

Vertigo

1958

As Manager of McKittrick Hotel

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

As Ms. Davis (uncredited)

Shane

1953

As Liz Torrey

The Night of the Grizzly

1966

As Hazel Squires

Sabrina

1954

As Miss McCardie

Night Passage

1957

As Mrs. Feeney

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

1947

As Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

On Moonlight Bay

1951

As Miss Mary Stevens

Macabre

1958

As Miss Kushins

Caged

1950

As Emma Barber

Edge of Doom

1950

As Jeanette Moore

The Strangler

1964

As Mrs. Kroll

The Big Trees

1952

As Sister Blackburn

Little Women

1949

As Sophie

I Remember Mama

1948

As Aunt Trina

Madame Bovary

1949

As Félicité

Mighty Joe Young

1949

As Orphanage matron (uncredited)

The Gunfighter

1950

As Mrs. Devlin

4 for Texas

1963

As Widow

Illegal

1955

As Miss Hinkel

All Mine to Give

1957

As Mrs. Raiden

Susan Slept Here

1954

As Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

1966

As Neva Tremaine

A Woman's Secret

1949

As Nurse who reads paper to Susan

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

1971

As Esther Walton

Harriet Craig

1950

As Lottie

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

1954

As Amelia Gravesend

About Mrs. Leslie

1954

As Mrs. Croffman

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953

As Singing Woman

Goodbye, My Fancy

1951

As Miss Birdshaw

The Seventh Sin

1957

As Sister Saint Joseph

Stagecoach To Fury

1956

As Sarah Farrell

Lover Come Back

1946

As Rita

Fearless Fagan

1952

As Mrs. Ardley

Saintly Sinners

1962

As Mrs. McKenzie

The Mating Season

1951

As Annie

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968

As Script Girl

Fighting Father Dunne

1948

As Colpeck's Secretary

As Young As We Are

1958

As Nettie McPherson

Cornered

1945

As Swiss Maid (uncredited)

The Family Jewels

1965

As Airline Passenger

Captain China

1950

As Miss Endicott

Speed Limited

1935

As Secretary

God Is My Partner

1957

As Mrs. Dalton

Sons of the Desert

1933

As Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)

The Glass Bottom Boat

1966

As Anna Miller

Living in a Big Way

1947

As Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)

Tom, Dick and Harriet

1960

As Aunt Emily

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953

As First Townswoman

Rafter Romance

1933

As Telemarketer (uncredited)

All the Way Home

1981

As Great-Gandmaw

Babes in Toyland

1934

As Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)

The Barefoot Mailman

1951

As Miss Della (uncredited)

Forever Amber

1947

As Marge

Strike It Rich

1948

As Annie Harkins

Here Comes the Groom

1951

As Mrs. McGonigle

Angels in the Outfield

1951

As Sister Veronica

The Spiral Staircase

1946

As Neighbour (uncredited)

A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion

1993

As Grandma Walton

The Unfaithful

1947

As Courtroom Spectator

The Sea Hornet

1951

As Mrs. Drinkwater

Peggy

1950

As Mrs. Privet, the Librarian

Rockabilly Baby

1957

As Mrs. Wellington

Untamed Heiress

1954

As Mrs. Flanny

Napoleon and Samantha

1972

As Gertrude

Railroaded!

1947

As Mrs. Wills (uncredited)

Rusty Saves a Life

1949

As Miss Simmons

Monsoon

1952

As Katie

Slightly Scarlet

1956

As Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)

A Walton Easter

1997

As Grandma Walton

From This Day Forward

1946

As Mother

Beat the Band

1947

As Gertrude's Mother

The Noose Hangs High

1948

As Hilda - Maid (uncredited)

A Fine Pair

1968

As Maddy Walker

A Tattered Web

1971

As Mrs. Simmons

The Dark Corner

1946

As Maid (uncredited)

Visit to a Small Planet

1960

As Mrs. Mabel Mayberry

The Vanquished

1953

As Mrs. Barbour

The Fabulous Joe

1947

As Cathy, the Maid

Crack-Up

1946

As Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)

A Walton Wedding

1995

As Grandma Walton

The Broken Coin

1936

As Bit Part (uncredited)

Cannon

1971

As Teacher

A Wedding on Waltons Mountain

1982

As Grandma Walton

The Caretakers

1963

As Irene

Sister Kenny

1946

As Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)

The Judge Steps Out

1947

As Mother at Party (uncredited)

Born to Kill

1947

As Maid (uncredited)

The Long Night

1947

As Observer in Crowd (uncredited)

The Gnome-Mobile

1967

As Etta Pettibone (uncredited)

Bedlam

1946

As

The Dark Past

1948

As Agnes (uncredited)

Production

Twilight on the Trail

1941

As Screenplay

Hoppy's Holiday

1947

As Story

The Broken Coin

1936

As Story

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