Ellen Corby
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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.
Known for
Credits
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
as Ms. Davis (uncredited)
Vertigo (1958)
as Manager of McKittrick Hotel
Sabrina (1954)
as Miss McCardie
Little Women (1949)
as Sophie
Shane (1953)
as Liz Torrey
Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry
The Gunfighter (1950)
as Mrs. Devlin
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
as Sister Veronica
Madame Bovary (1949)
as Félicité
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
as Soho Sal
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
as Lily
The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
as Hazel Squires
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
as Orphanage matron (uncredited)
The Unfaithful (1947)
as Courtroom Spectator
Babes in Toyland (1934)
as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)
Caged (1950)
as Emma Barber
All Mine to Give (1957)
as Mrs. Raiden
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
as Script Girl
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
as Neighbour (uncredited)
4 for Texas (1963)
as Widow
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
as Miss Mary Stevens
Crack-Up (1946)
as Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)
Sister Kenny (1946)
as Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)
Harriet Craig (1950)
as Lottie
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
as Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
as Neva Tremaine
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
as Anna Miller
Born to Kill (1947)
as Maid (uncredited)
Macabre (1958)
as Miss Kushins
Bedlam (1946)
as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
as Abigail
The Big Trees (1952)
as Sister Blackburn
The Dark Past (1948)
as Agnes (uncredited)
Forever Amber (1947)
as Marge
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
The Locket (1946)
as Ginny (uncredited)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
as Esther Walton
A Woman's Secret (1949)
as Nurse who reads paper to Susan
The Dark Corner (1946)
as Maid (uncredited)
Illegal (1955)
as Miss Hinkel
Night Passage (1957)
as Mrs. Feeney
The Seventh Sin (1957)
as Sister Saint Joseph
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
as Gertrude
The Family Jewels (1965)
as Airline Passenger
The Long Night (1947)
as Observer in Crowd (uncredited)
I Remember Mama (1948)
as Aunt Trina
Captain China (1950)
as Miss Endicott
A Tattered Web (1971)
as Mrs. Simmons
A Fine Pair (1968)
as Maddy Walker
A Walton Wedding (1995)
as Grandma Walton
Cornered (1945)
as Swiss Maid (uncredited)
Edge of Doom (1950)
as Jeanette Moore
A Walton Easter (1997)
as Grandma Walton
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
as Miss Birdshaw
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
as Mrs. Croffman
Susan Slept Here (1954)
as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)
Railroaded! (1947)
as Mrs. Wills (uncredited)
Peggy (1950)
as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian
The Caretakers (1963)
as Irene
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
as Screaming Woman in Courtroom (uncredited)
Slightly Scarlet (1956)
as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
as Singing Woman
The Mating Season (1951)
as Annie
The Fabulous Joe (1947)
as Cathy, the Maid
The Vanquished (1953)
as Mrs. Barbour
Living in a Big Way (1947)
as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)
Mansfield 66/67 (2017)
Actor
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
as Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
as Miss Della (uncredited)
Here Comes the Groom (1951)
as Mrs. McGonigle
Cannon (1971)
as Teacher
From This Day Forward (1946)
as Mother
All the Way Home (1981)
as Great-Gandmaw
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993)
as Grandma Walton
Monsoon (1952)
as Katie
Lover Come Back (1946)
as Rita
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
as Amelia Gravesend
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
as Ma Floyd
Untamed Heiress (1954)
as Mrs. Flanny
The Sea Hornet (1951)
as Mrs. Drinkwater
The Strangler (1964)
as Mrs. Kroll
Rafter Romance (1933)
as Telemarketer (uncredited)
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
as First Townswoman
Fearless Fagan (1952)
as Mrs. Ardley
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
as Colpeck's Secretary
Rockabilly Baby (1957)
as Mrs. Wellington
The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons (1980)
Actor
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain (1982)
as Esther Walton
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Mother at Party (uncredited)
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain (1982)
as Grandma Walton
God Is My Partner (1957)
as Mrs. Dalton
Strike It Rich (1948)
as Annie Harkins
Stagecoach To Fury (1956)
as Sarah Farrell
The Truth About Murder (1946)
as Betty
Saintly Sinners (1962)
as Mrs. McKenzie
Tom, Dick and Harriet (1960)
as Aunt Emily
Rusty Saves a Life (1949)
as Miss Simmons
Speed Limited (1935)
as Secretary
Beat the Band (1947)
as Gertrude's Mother
The Broken Coin (1936)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
As Young As We Are (1958)
as Nettie McPherson