Elizabeth Montgomery
Actor
- Born
- April 15, 1933 · Hollywood, California, USA
- Died
- May 18, 1995 (age 62)
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American film and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered as the star of the TV series Bewitched.
The daughter of Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series Robert Montgomery Presents. In the 1960s, she rose to fame as Samantha Stephens on the ABC sitcom Bewitched. Her work on the series earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations. After Bewitched ended its run in 1972, Montgomery continued her career with roles in numerous television films. In 1974, she portrayed Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and Lizzie Borden in the 1975 television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Both roles earned her additional Emmy Award nominations.
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Montgomery was married four times, most notably to actor producer/director William Asher with whom she had three children. Her final marriage was to actor Robert Foxworth, with whom she lived for twenty years before marrying in 1993. Montgomery died of colorectal cancer in May 1995, eight weeks after being diagnosed with the disease.
Known for
Acting38
- 2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self/Samantha Stephens (archive footage)
- 2022Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive video)
- 2005Bewitched as Samantha Stephens (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1995Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan as Edna Buchanan
- 1994A Bewitched Christmas as Samantha Stephens
- 1994Super 8½ as Insane Woman
- 1994The Corpse Had a Familiar Face as Edna Buchanan
- 1993Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story as Blanche Taylor Moore
- 1992The Panama Deception as Narrator
