Person
Ellen Corby
Actor· Racine, Wisconsin, USA
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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Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Vertigo
Manager of McKittrick Hotel · 1958
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Sabrina
Miss McCardie · 1954
Shane
Liz Torrey · 1953
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Lily · 1964
The Spiral Staircase
Neighbour (uncredited) · 1946
Sons of the Desert
Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited) · 1933
Little Women
Sophie · 1949
Filmography
72 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd | Ma Floyd | Film |
| 1972 | Napoleon and Samantha | Gertrude | Film |
| 1971 | A Tattered Web | Mrs. Simmons | Film |
| 1971 | Support Your Local Gunfighter | Abigail | Film |
| 1971 | The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | Esther Walton | Film |
| 1968 | The Legend of Lylah Clare | Script Girl | Film |
| 1968 | A Fine Pair | Maddy Walker | Film |
| 1967 | The Gnome-Mobile | Etta Pettibone (uncredited) | Film |
| 1966 | The Glass Bottom Boat | Anna Miller | Film |
| 1966 | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | Neva Tremaine | Film |
| 1966 | The Night of the Grizzly | Hazel Squires | Film |
| 1965 | The Family Jewels | Airline Passenger | Film |
| 1964 | The Strangler | Mrs. Kroll | Film |
| 1964 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Lily | Film |
| 1963 | 4 for Texas | Widow | Film |
| 1963 | The Caretakers | Irene | Film |
| 1962 | Saintly Sinners | Mrs. McKenzie | Film |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles | Soho Sal | Film |
| 1960 | Visit to a Small Planet | Mrs. Mabel Mayberry | Film |
| 1958 | Macabre | Miss Kushins | Film |
| 1958 | As Young As We Are | Nettie McPherson | Film |
| 1958 | Vertigo | Manager of McKittrick Hotel | Film |
| 1957 | All Mine to Give | Mrs. Raiden | Film |
| 1957 | Night Passage | Mrs. Feeney | Film |
| 1957 | The Seventh Sin | Sister Saint Joseph | Film |
| 1956 | Stagecoach To Fury | Sarah Farrell | Film |
| 1956 | Slightly Scarlet | Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited) | Film |
| 1955 | Illegal | Miss Hinkel | Film |
| 1954 | About Mrs. Leslie | Mrs. Croffman | Film |
| 1954 | Susan Slept Here | Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited) | Film |
| 1954 | The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters | Amelia Gravesend | Film |
| 1954 | Sabrina | Miss McCardie | Film |
| 1953 | Woman They Almost Lynched | First Townswoman | Film |
| 1953 | A Lion Is in the Streets | Singing Woman | Film |
| 1953 | Shane | Liz Torrey | Film |
| 1952 | The Big Trees | Sister Blackburn | Film |
| 1951 | Goodbye, My Fancy | Miss Birdshaw | Film |
| 1951 | Here Comes the Groom | Mrs. McGonigle | Film |
| 1951 | The Mating Season | Annie | Film |
| 1951 | Angels in the Outfield | Sister Veronica | Film |
| 1951 | On Moonlight Bay | Miss Mary Stevens | Film |
| 1950 | Caged | Emma Barber | Film |
| 1950 | Edge of Doom | Jeanette Moore | Film |
| 1950 | Harriet Craig | Lottie | Film |
| 1950 | The Gunfighter | Mrs. Devlin | Film |
| 1949 | Madame Bovary | Félicité | Film |
| 1949 | A Woman's Secret | Nurse who reads paper to Susan | Film |
| 1949 | Rusty Saves a Life | Miss Simmons | Film |
| 1949 | Mighty Joe Young | Orphanage matron (uncredited) | Film |
| 1949 | Little Women | Sophie | Film |
| 1948 | I Remember Mama | Aunt Trina | Film |
| 1948 | The Noose Hangs High | Hilda - Maid (uncredited) | Film |
| 1948 | The Dark Past | Agnes (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | The Long Night | Observer in Crowd (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | Living in a Big Way | Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | They Won't Believe Me | Screaming Woman in Courtroom (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | Railroaded! | Mrs. Wills (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | Born to Kill | Maid (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) | Film |
| 1947 | Forever Amber | Marge | Film |
| 1947 | The Unfaithful | Courtroom Spectator | Film |
| 1946 | Sister Kenny | Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited) | Film |
| 1946 | The Locket | Ginny (uncredited) | Film |
| 1946 | The Dark Corner | Maid (uncredited) | Film |
| 1946 | Crack-Up | Reynold's Maid (Uncredited) | Film |
| 1946 | Bedlam | Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited) | Film |
| 1946 | The Spiral Staircase | Neighbour (uncredited) | Film |
| 1946 | From This Day Forward | Mother | Film |
| 1945 | Cornered | Swiss Maid (uncredited) | Film |
| 1934 | Babes in Toyland | Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited) | Film |
| 1933 | Rafter Romance | Telemarketer (uncredited) | Film |
| 1933 | Sons of the Desert | Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited) | Film |
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