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Ellen Corby
Known for: ActingEllen 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 64
Vertigo
+3
as Manager of McKittrick Hotel 
Shane
+1
as Liz Torrey 
Sabrina
as Miss McCardie 
Little Women
+1
as Sophie 
Angels in the Outfield
+1
as Sister Veronica 
Illegal
as Miss Hinkel 
Madame Bovary
+2
as Félicité 
The Glass Bottom Boat
+1
as Anna Miller 
Bedlam
as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited) 
Mighty Joe Young
+1
as Orphanage matron (uncredited) 
Support Your Local Gunfighter
+1
as Abigail 
I Remember Mama
+1
as Aunt Trina 
The Gunfighter
+2
as Mrs. Devlin 
Babes in Toyland
+3
as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited) 
4 for Texas
+1
as Widow 
Pocketful of Miracles
+1
as Soho Sal 
The Long Night
+1
as Observer in Crowd (uncredited) 
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
as Neva Tremaine 
Visit to a Small Planet
as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry 
Sons of the Desert
as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited) 
Night Passage
as Mrs. Feeney 
Forever Amber
as Marge 
The Locket
as Ginny (uncredited) 
The Legend of Lylah Clare
+1
as Script Girl 
The Night of the Grizzly
+1
as Hazel Squires 
The Family Jewels
+1
as Airline Passenger 
A Woman's Secret
as Nurse who reads paper to Susan 
A Fine Pair
as Maddy Walker 
The Spiral Staircase
as Neighbour (uncredited) 
Woman They Almost Lynched
as First Townswoman 
All Mine to Give
as Mrs. Raiden 
The Gnome-Mobile
+1
as Etta Pettibone (uncredited) 
Edge of Doom
+2
as Jeanette Moore 
A Walton Easter
as Grandma Walton 
Born to Kill
as Maid (uncredited) 
The Noose Hangs High
as Hilda - Maid (uncredited) 
Here Comes the Groom
as Mrs. McGonigle 
Caged
+2
as Emma Barber 
Slightly Scarlet
as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited) 
Napoleon and Samantha
+1
as Gertrude 
On Moonlight Bay
as Miss Mary Stevens 
Susan Slept Here
as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited) 
Cornered
as Swiss Maid (uncredited) 
The Dark Corner
as Maid (uncredited) 
A Lion Is in the Streets
+1
as Singing Woman 
The Big Trees
+2
as Sister Blackburn 
Macabre
+1
as Miss Kushins 
The Strangler
as Mrs. Kroll 
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
as Esther Walton 
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
as Grandma Walton 
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
as Grandma Walton 
Living in a Big Way
as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited) 
The Caretakers
as Irene 
Twilight on the Trail
Screenplay 
Captain China
as Miss Endicott 
Rusty Saves a Life
as Miss Simmons 
Goodbye, My Fancy
as Miss Birdshaw 
A Tattered Web
as Mrs. Simmons 
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
as Amelia Gravesend 
Harriet Craig
as Lottie 
Railroaded!
as Mrs. Wills (uncredited) 
A Walton Wedding
as Grandma Walton 
Fearless Fagan
as Mrs. Ardley