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