Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead (
December 6,
1900 -
April 30,
1974) was a
United States character
actress. She was born in
Clinton, Massachusetts.
Moorehead was part of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater on the Air radio program in the 1930s and appeared in a Broadway production of Don Juan in Hell in 1950.
The lung cancer which took her life is traced by some back to her work in The Conqueror, filmed near nuclear-weapon test sites in Nevada and in sets dressed with truckloads of dirt from the area. She died in Rochester, Minnesota
Notable roles
- Mary Kane, Citizen Kane, 1941
- Fanny, The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, New York Film Critics Circle Award, Academy Award nomination
- Aspasia Conti, Miss Parkington, 1944, Golden Globe, Academy Award nomination
- Aggie McDonald, Johnny Belinda, 1948, Academy Award nomination
- The woman, The Twilight Zone episode: "The Invaders" (1961)
- Endora, Bewitched, 1964-1972, five Emmy nominations
- Velma Cruther, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964, Golden Globe, Academy Award nomination
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