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.

Filmography

Pocketful of Miracles
Soho Sal
Vertigo
Manager of McKittrick Hotel
The Gnome-Mobile
Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
It's a Wonderful Life
Ms. Davis (uncredited)
Shane
Liz Torrey
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Lily
The Night of the Grizzly
Hazel Squires
Sabrina
Miss McCardie
Night Passage
Mrs. Feeney
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
On Moonlight Bay
Miss Mary Stevens
Caged
Emma Barber
Macabre
Miss Kushins
Edge of Doom
Jeanette Moore
The Strangler
Mrs. Kroll
The Big Trees
Sister Blackburn
Little Women
Sophie
I Remember Mama
Aunt Trina
Madame Bovary
Félicité
The Gunfighter
Mrs. Devlin
Mighty Joe Young
Orphanage matron (uncredited)
4 for Texas
Widow
Illegal
Miss Hinkel
All Mine to Give
Mrs. Raiden
Susan Slept Here
Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
Esther Walton
A Woman's Secret
Nurse who reads paper to Susan
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Esther Walton
Harriet Craig
Lottie
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Amelia Gravesend
About Mrs. Leslie
Mrs. Croffman
The Broken Coin
Bit Part (uncredited)
A Lion Is in the Streets
Singing Woman
Goodbye, My Fancy
Miss Birdshaw
The Seventh Sin
Sister Saint Joseph
Stagecoach To Fury
Sarah Farrell
Bedlam
Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)
Lover Come Back
Rita
Fearless Fagan
Mrs. Ardley
The Truth About Murder
Betty
Saintly Sinners
Mrs. McKenzie
The Mating Season
Annie
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Script Girl
Fighting Father Dunne
Colpeck's Secretary
The Dark Past
Agnes (uncredited)
As Young As We Are
Nettie McPherson
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
Grandma Walton
Cannon
Teacher
Cornered
Swiss Maid (uncredited)
The Family Jewels
Airline Passenger
Speed Limited
Secretary
Captain China
Miss Endicott
The Caretakers
Irene
God Is My Partner
Mrs. Dalton
Sons of the Desert
Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)
The Glass Bottom Boat
Anna Miller
Living in a Big Way
Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)
They Won't Believe Me
Woman They Almost Lynched
First Townswoman
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Neva Tremaine
Rafter Romance
Telemarketer (uncredited)
Untamed Heiress
Mrs. Flanny
Sister Kenny
Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)
All the Way Home
Great-Gandmaw
The Judge Steps Out
Mother at Party (uncredited)
Born to Kill
Maid (uncredited)
The Long Night
Observer in Crowd (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland
Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)
The Barefoot Mailman
Miss Della (uncredited)
The Spiral Staircase
Neighbour (uncredited)
Forever Amber
Marge
Strike It Rich
Annie Harkins
The Locket
Ginny (uncredited)
Here Comes the Groom
Mrs. McGonigle
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Aunt Emily
Angels in the Outfield
Sister Veronica
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
Grandma Walton
The Unfaithful
Courtroom Spectator
The Sea Hornet
Mrs. Drinkwater
Peggy
Mrs. Privet, the Librarian
Rockabilly Baby
Mrs. Wellington
Napoleon and Samantha
Gertrude
Railroaded!
Mrs. Wills (uncredited)
Rusty Saves a Life
Miss Simmons
Monsoon
Katie
Slightly Scarlet
Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)
A Walton Easter
Grandma Walton
From This Day Forward
Mother
Beat the Band
Gertrude's Mother
The Noose Hangs High
Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
A Fine Pair
Maddy Walker
A Tattered Web
Mrs. Simmons
The Dark Corner
Maid (uncredited)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Ma Floyd
Visit to a Small Planet
Mrs. Mabel Mayberry
The Vanquished
Mrs. Barbour
The Fabulous Joe
Cathy, the Maid
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Abigail
Crack-Up
Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)
A Walton Wedding
Grandma Walton
Because I Love Him
Mrs. Logan