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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 
Sabrina
+7
as Miss McCardie 
Shane
+9
as Liz Torrey 
Little Women
+3
as Sophie 
Angels in the Outfield
+4
as Sister Veronica 
Illegal
+7
as Miss Hinkel 
Madame Bovary
+6
as Félicité 
The Glass Bottom Boat
+4
as Anna Miller 
Mighty Joe Young
+2
as Orphanage matron (uncredited) 
Support Your Local Gunfighter
+9
as Abigail 
I Remember Mama
+2
as Aunt Trina 
The Gunfighter
+10
as Mrs. Devlin 
Babes in Toyland
+13
as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited) 
4 for Texas
+2
as Widow 
Pocketful of Miracles
+7
as Soho Sal 
The Long Night
+7
as Observer in Crowd (uncredited) 
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
+3
as Neva Tremaine 
Bedlam
+3
as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited) 
Visit to a Small Planet
as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry 
Sons of the Desert
+6
as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited) 
Night Passage
+2
as Mrs. Feeney 
Forever Amber
as Marge 
The Legend of Lylah Clare
+1
as Script Girl 
The Night of the Grizzly
+2
as Hazel Squires 
The Locket
as Ginny (uncredited) 
The Family Jewels
+3
as Airline Passenger 
A Woman's Secret
as Nurse who reads paper to Susan 
A Fine Pair
as Maddy Walker 
The Spiral Staircase
+3
as Neighbour (uncredited) 
Woman They Almost Lynched
as First Townswoman 
All Mine to Give
+3
as Mrs. Raiden 
The Gnome-Mobile
+2
as Etta Pettibone (uncredited) 
Cornered
as Swiss Maid (uncredited) 
Edge of Doom
+6
as Jeanette Moore 
Born to Kill
+2
as Maid (uncredited) 
The Noose Hangs High
+1
as Hilda - Maid (uncredited) 
Here Comes the Groom
+3
as Mrs. McGonigle 
Caged
+5
as Emma Barber 
Slightly Scarlet
+2
as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited) 
Napoleon and Samantha
+2
as Gertrude 
On Moonlight Bay
+2
as Miss Mary Stevens 
Susan Slept Here
as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited) 
The Dark Corner
as Maid (uncredited) 
A Lion Is in the Streets
+4
as Singing Woman 
The Big Trees
+18
as Sister Blackburn 
Macabre
+10
as Miss Kushins 
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
+1
as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited) 
The Caretakers
+4
as Irene 
A Walton Easter
as Grandma Walton 
The Strangler
+3
as Mrs. Kroll 
Twilight on the Trail
Screenplay 
Captain China
+2
as Miss Endicott 
Rusty Saves a Life
as Miss Simmons 
Goodbye, My Fancy
+2
as Miss Birdshaw 
A Tattered Web
+9
as Mrs. Simmons 
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
+2
as Amelia Gravesend 
Harriet Craig
as Lottie 
Railroaded!
+3
as Mrs. Wills (uncredited) 
A Walton Wedding
as Grandma Walton 
Fearless Fagan
as Mrs. Ardley