Agnes Moorehead

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 12/06/1900
Birthplace: Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
Death Date: 04/30/1974

biography

This angular, versatile character player is best remembered for her vibrant turn as Endora on the sitcom "Bewitched" and for her dramatic roles in two Orson Welles films: as the protagonist's misguided mother in "Citizen Kane" (1941) and as the lonely, forbidding spinster in "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942). The New England-born Moorehead had appeared in every kind of 20th century entertainment. She started in the late 1910s in an opera company and was singing on the radio by 1923. Eking out her living with teaching jobs, Moorehead moved to New York in the late 20s and made her Broadway Continued

Credits

Voice
1973
Mrs Snow
1960
Nancy Ashford
1954
Mary Kane
1941
Judge Peterson
Actor
Countess
Queen Elizabeth
Ellen Shawnessy
Mrs Matildo Kingsley
Vassilissa Miranov
Comelia Nelson
Maria Lombardo
Aggie
Fanny Amberson
Bertha Parchman
Queen Maria Dominika
Madge Rapf
Beryl Sigman
Hunlun
Sister Cluny
Madame Neilson
Phoebe Tuttle
Actor
Miss hattie
Cornelia Van Gorder

milestones

Year
Milestone
1917 
Appeared with Municipal Opera Company in St. Louis, Missouri
1923 
Radio debut, singing in St. Louis
1929 
Broadway debut, "Scarlet Pages"
 
Toured in vaudeville with Phil Baker
1938 
Joined Orson Welles' "Mercury Theater of the Air"
Continued

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