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Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery

Birthday: 1933-04-15 | Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1985
Between the Darkness and the Dawn

as    Abigail Foster

1985
Amos

as    Daisy Daws

1980
Belle Starr

as    Belle Starr

1979
Act of Violence

as    Catherine McSweeney

1978
The Awakening Land

as    Sayward Luckett Wheeler

1978
The Awakening Land

as    Sayward Luckett Wheeler

1977
A Killing Affair

as    Vikki Eaton

1974
A Case of Rape

as    Ellen Harrod

1974
Mrs. Sundance

as    Etta Place

1964
Bewitched

as    Samantha Stephens

1963
Johnny Cool

as    Darien 'Dare' Guiness

1962
Saints and Sinners

as    Eadie Donelli

1961
Frontier Circus

as    Karina Andrews

1955
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

as    Margaret Lansdowne