Ellen Corby
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-06-03 (88 years old)
Deathday
1999-04-14
Place of Birth
Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Also known As
Ellen Hansen
Ellen Hansen Corby
Ellen Corby
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Corby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
1961
as Soho Sal
1958
as Manager of McKittrick Hotel
1967
as Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
1946
as Ms. Davis (uncredited)
1953
as Liz Torrey
1964
1966
as Hazel Squires
1954
as Miss McCardie
1957
as Mrs. Feeney
1947
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1951
as Miss Mary Stevens
1950
as Emma Barber
1958
as Miss Kushins
1950
as Jeanette Moore
1964
as Mrs. Kroll
1952
as Sister Blackburn
1949
as Sophie
1948
as Aunt Trina
1949
as Félicité
1950
as Mrs. Devlin
1949
as Orphanage matron (uncredited)
1963
as Widow
1955
as Miss Hinkel
1957
as Mrs. Raiden
1954
as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)
1982
as Esther Walton
1949
as Nurse who reads paper to Susan
1971
as Esther Walton
1950
as Lottie
1954
as Amelia Gravesend
1954
as Mrs. Croffman
1936
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1953
as Singing Woman
1951
as Miss Birdshaw
1957
as Sister Saint Joseph
1956
as Sarah Farrell
1946
as Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)
1946
as Rita
1952
as Mrs. Ardley
1946
as Betty
1962
as Mrs. McKenzie
1951
as Annie
1968
as Script Girl
1948
as Colpeck's Secretary
1948
as Agnes (uncredited)
1958
as Nettie McPherson
1982
as Grandma Walton
1971
as Teacher
1945
as Swiss Maid (uncredited)
1965
as Airline Passenger
1935
as Secretary
1950
as Miss Endicott
1963
as Irene
1957
as Mrs. Dalton
1933
as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)
1966
as Anna Miller
1947
as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)
1953
as First Townswoman
1966
as Neva Tremaine
1933
as Telemarketer (uncredited)
1954
as Mrs. Flanny
1946
as Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)
1981
as Great-Gandmaw
1947
as Mother at Party (uncredited)
1947
as Maid (uncredited)
1947
as Observer in Crowd (uncredited)
1934
as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)
1951
as Miss Della (uncredited)
1946
as Neighbour (uncredited)
1947
as Marge
1948
as Annie Harkins
1946
as Ginny (uncredited)
1951
as Mrs. McGonigle
1960
as Aunt Emily
1951
as Sister Veronica
1993
as Grandma Walton
1947
as Courtroom Spectator
1951
as Mrs. Drinkwater
1950
as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian
1957
as Mrs. Wellington
1972
as Gertrude
1947
as Mrs. Wills (uncredited)
1949
as Miss Simmons
1952
as Katie
1956
as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)
1997
as Grandma Walton
1946
as Mother
1947
as Gertrude's Mother
1948
as Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
1968
as Maddy Walker
1971
as Mrs. Simmons
1946
as Maid (uncredited)
1974
as Ma Floyd
1960
as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry
1953
as Mrs. Barbour
1947
as Cathy, the Maid
1971
as Abigail
1946
as Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)
1995
as Grandma Walton
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as Mrs. Logan
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