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Ellen Corby

Born Ellen Hansen, Ellen Corby was an American actress and screenwriter, and was a fixture of The Waltons as grandma Esther Walton.

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Filmography
  • Born In Racine, Wisconsin, USA
  • Born June 3, 1911
  • Died April 14, 1999
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Vertigo

1958
as Manager of McKittrick Hotel

Sabrina

1954
as Miss McCardie

Goodbye, My Fancy

1951
as Miss Birdshaw

Here Comes the Groom

1951
as Mrs. McGonigle

Angels in the Outfield

1951
as Sister Veronica

Night Passage

1957
as Mrs. Feeney

Cuban Pete

1946
as Screaming Patient

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

1954
as Amelia Gravesend

Captain China

1950
as Miss Endicott

Madame Bovary

1949
as Félicité

Rockabilly Baby

1957
as Mrs. Wellington

Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims

1968
as Woman at Burton Ridge Land Office

As Young As We Are

1958
as Nettie McPherson

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

1974
as Ma Floyd

The Big Trees

1952
as Sister Blackburn

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

1966
as Neva Tremaine

Twisted Rails

1934
as Undetermined role

Illegal

1955
as Miss Hinkel

Saintly Sinners

1962
as Mrs. McKenzie

The Seventh Sin

1957
as Sister Saint Joseph

The Judge Steps Out

1947
as Mother at Birthday Party

On Moonlight Bay

1951
as Miss Mary Stevens

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953
as Singing Woman

The Night of the Grizzly

1966
as Hazel Squires

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953
as First Townswoman

Pocketful of Miracles

1961
as Soho Sal

Stagecoach To Fury

1956
as Sarah Farrell

A Wedding on Walton's Mountain

1982
as Grandma

Peggy

1950
as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian

All Mine to Give

1957
as Mrs. Raiden

Sons of the Desert

1933
as Dress Person at Table Next to Chase's

The Mating Season

1951
as Annie

Strike It Rich

1948
as Annie Harkins

The Strangler

1964
as Mrs. Kroll

Lover Come Back

1946
as Rita

Macabre

1958
as Miss Kushins

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968
as Script Girl

The Glass Bottom Boat

1966
as Anna Miller

Bedlam

1946
as Queen of the Artichokes

The Fabulous Joe

1947
as Cathy, the Maid

Little Women

1949
as Sophie - Mrs Kirke's maid

Mighty Joe Young

1949
as Orphanage matron

God Is My Partner

1957
as Mrs. Dalton

A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain

1982
as Grandma

I Remember Mama

1948
as Aunt Trina

Napoleon and Samantha

1972
as Gertrude

A Walton Wedding

1995
as Grandma

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

1971
as Esther Walton

A Walton Easter

1997
as Grandma

A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion

1993
as Grandma Walton

Edge of Doom

1950
as Mrs. Jeanette Moore

Fighting Father Dunne

1948
as Colpeck's Secretary

4 for Texas

1963
as Widow

A Fine Pair

1968
as Mrs. Walker

Rusty Saves a Life

1949
as Miss Simmons

Shane

1953
as Liz Torrey

A Decade of the Waltons

1980
as Esther Walton

The Gunfighter

1950
as Mrs. Devlin

The Family Jewels

1965
as Airline Passenger

Caged

1950
as Emma Barber

Forever Amber

1947
as Marge

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964
as Lily, a Town Gossip

All the Way Home

1981
as Great-Gandmaw

Speed Limited

1935
as Secretary

The Truth About Murder

1946
as Betty

Harriet Craig

1950
as Lottie

A Woman's Secret

1949
as Nurse who reads paper to Susan

Sister Kenny

1946
as Hospital Scrub Woman

About Mrs. Leslie

1954
as Mrs. Croffman

Untamed Heiress

1954
as Mrs. Flanny

The Sea Hornet

1951
as Mrs. Drinkwater

Writer

Movie Hoppy's Holiday 1947
Movie Twilight on the Trail 1941