Personal Info
Birth date
1933-04-15 (92 Years)
Day of death
1995-05-18
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hollywood, California, USA
Also known as
Pandora Spocks
Ελίζαμπεθ Βικτόρια Μοντγκόμερι
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery
Елізабет Монтгомері
الیزابت مونتگومری
Elizabeth Montgomery
Biography
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. 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.
Filmography
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Overview:
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Burke's Law
6
Overview:
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.The Twilight Zone
8.45
Overview:
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Batman: The Animated Series
8.546
Overview:
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".The Flintstones
7.427
Overview:
The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.Kraft Television Theatre
7.5
Overview:
Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.Rawhide
7.2
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.Bewitched
7.9
Overview:
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.Tony Awards
5.1
Overview:
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.77 Sunset Strip
6.7
Overview:
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.Suspicion
5.875
Overview:
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.One Step Beyond
5.6
Overview:
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.Riverboat
6.2
Overview:
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.Saints and Sinners
6
Overview:
Saints and Sinners is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1962-63 television season. The program stars Nick Adams as newspaper reporter Nick Alexander. Saints and Sinners was created by Adrian Spies, who worked as a journalist before becoming a screenwriter.Frontier Circus
4.7
Overview:
Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.The Awakening Land
7.2
Overview:
A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.Johnny Staccato
5.6
Overview:
Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.The Untouchables
7.869
Overview:
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Appointment with Adventure
6.5
Overview:
Appointment with Adventure is a half-hour adventure/dramatic anthology television series broadcast live on CBS from 1955-1956. The program has no host. It aired at 10 p.m. EST on the Sunday evening schedule between the better known Alfred Hitchcock Presents and What's My Line? It ran opposite The Loretta Young Show on NBC and Life Begins at Eighty, a panel discussion series hosted by Jack Barry on ABC. The series aired fifty-three episodes, having premiered on April 3, 1955, near the end of the regular 1954-1955 television season. It ran throughout the spring and summer of 1955 and began its fall run on October 2, 1955, concluding new segments on April 1, 1956. In effect, the series ran for a full year without the summer rebroadcast period standard for most programs. Episodes centered upon wars in U.S. history as well as dramatizations from events from many places throughout the world, then and in the past. In the episode which aired on May 1, 1955, Polly Bergen, Dane Clark, and Hugh Reilly starred in "Rendezvous in Paris." Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, fifteen years prior to their television roles as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in ABC's The Odd Couple, appeared with Gena Rowlands, later on NBC's 87th Precinct, in the September 4, 1955, episode entitled "The Pirate's House." Randall also appeared two months earlier in the Appointment with Adventure episode "Caribbean Cruise."Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Overview:
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.Checkmate
4.1
Overview:
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.Challenge of the Super Friends
6.885
Overview:
Challenge of the Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 9, 1978, to December 23, 1978, on ABC. The complete series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Warner Bros. Television and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics and created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. It was the third series of Super Friends cartoons, following the original Super Friends in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977. It continues to air on Boomerang in the United States.Letter to Loretta
6.5
Overview:
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.The Tab Hunter Show
5
Overview:
The Tab Hunter Show is an American situation comedy starring Tab Hunter. The series ran new episodes on NBC from September 18, 1960, to April 30, 1961; rebroadcasts then aired from May until September 18.Acting
2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self/Samantha Stephens (archive footage)
2022Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive video)
1995Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan as Edna Buchanan
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
1992Batman: The Animated Series (1 Episode) as Barmaid (voice)
1992The Panama Deception as Narrator
1992With Murder in Mind as Gayle Wolfer
1991Sins of the Mother as Ruth Coe
1990Face to Face as Dr. Diana Firestone
1988Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair as Narrator
1985Between the Darkness and the Dawn as Abigail Foster
1985Amos as Daisy Daws
1984Second Sight: A Love Story as Alexandra McKay
1983Missing Pieces as Sara Scott
1982The Rules of Marriage as Joan Hagen
1981When the Circus Came to Town as Mary Flynn
1980Belle Starr as Belle Starr
1979Act of Violence as Catherine McSweeney
1979Jennifer: A Woman’s Story as Jennifer Prince
1978Challenge of the Super Friends (32 Episodes) as Unknown
1978The Awakening Land (3 Episodes) as Sayward Luckett Wheeler
1977A Killing Affair as Vikki Eaton
1976Dark Victory as Katherine Merrill
1975The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Lizzie Borden
1974A Case of Rape as Ellen Harrod
1974Mrs. Sundance as Etta Place
1972The Victim as Kate Wainwright
1965How to Stuff a Wild Bikini as Bwana's Daughter, The Witches Witch (uncredited)
1964Bewitched (254 Episodes) as Samantha Stephens
1964Bikini Beach as Lady Bug (voice)
1963Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Mellisa Morris
1963Johnny Cool as Darien 'Dare' Guiness
1963Burke's Law (1, 1 Episode) as Stacey Evans, Smitty
1962Saints and Sinners (1 Episode) as Eadie Donelli
1961Frontier Circus (26 Episodes) as Karina Andrews
1961The Spiral Staircase as Helen Warren
1960The Flintstones (1 Episode) as Samantha Stephens (voice)
1960The Tab Hunter Show (32 Episodes) as Hilary Fairfield
1960Checkmate (1 Episode) as Vicki Page
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Rosamond Denham
1960Bells Are Ringing as Girl Reading Book (uncredited)
1959The Untouchables (1 Episode) as Rusty Heller
1959The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as Woman
1959Riverboat (1 Episode) as Abigail Carruthers
1959Johnny Staccato (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959One Step Beyond (1 Episode) as Lillie Clarke
1959Rawhide (1 Episode) as Rose Cornelius
195877 Sunset Strip (1 Episode) as Charlotte Delavalle
1958Bitter Heritage as Mary Brecker
1957Suspicion (1 Episode) as Ellen
1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self
1955The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell as Margaret Lansdowne
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Karen Adams
1955Summer Pavilion as Helen Durand
1955Appointment with Adventure (53 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Patterns as Ann Evans
1954Climax! (1 Episode) as Betsy
1953Kraft Television Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1953Letter to Loretta (1 Episode) as Millie
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Dr. Diana Firestone
1950Robert Montgomery Presents (1, 19, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Susan Ward, Unknown, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Patricia, Jen Deveraux, Claire, Chris Luck, Betty
1948Studio One (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Helen Durand, Marcia Loring Adams, Maggie
1947Kraft Television Theatre (2 Episodes) as Ann Evans