
Birthday
1911/06/03
Day of death
1999/04/14 (87 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Also know as
Ellen Hansen, Ellen Hansen Corby
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.

(1961) Pocketful of Miracles
as Soho Sal

(1958) Vertigo
as Manager of McKittrick Hotel

(1967) The Gnome-Mobile
as Etta Pettibone (uncredited)

(1946) It's a Wonderful Life
as Ms. Davis (uncredited)

(1953) Shane
as Liz Torrey

(1964) Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Lily

(1966) The Night of the Grizzly
as Hazel Squires

(1954) Sabrina
as Miss McCardie

(1957) Night Passage
as Mrs. Feeney

(1947) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

(1951) On Moonlight Bay
as Miss Mary Stevens

(1950) Caged
as Emma Barber

(1958) Macabre
as Miss Kushins

(1950) Edge of Doom
as Jeanette Moore

(1964) The Strangler
as Mrs. Kroll

(1952) The Big Trees
as Sister Blackburn

(1949) Little Women
as Sophie

(1948) I Remember Mama
as Aunt Trina

(1949) Madame Bovary
as Félicité

(1950) The Gunfighter
as Mrs. Devlin

(1949) Mighty Joe Young
as Orphanage matron (uncredited)

(1963) 4 for Texas
as Widow

(1955) Illegal
as Miss Hinkel

(1957) All Mine to Give
as Mrs. Raiden

(1954) Susan Slept Here
as Coffee Shop Waitress (uncredited)

(1982) A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
as Esther Walton

(1949) A Woman's Secret
as Nurse who reads paper to Susan

(1971) The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
as Esther Walton

(1950) Harriet Craig
as Lottie

(1954) The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
as Amelia Gravesend

(1954) About Mrs. Leslie
as Mrs. Croffman
(1936) The Broken Coin
as Bit Part (uncredited)

(1953) A Lion Is in the Streets
as Singing Woman

(1951) Goodbye, My Fancy
as Miss Birdshaw

(1957) The Seventh Sin
as Sister Saint Joseph

(1956) Stagecoach To Fury
as Sarah Farrell

(1946) Bedlam
as Betty, Queen of the Artichokes (uncredited)

(1946) Lover Come Back
as Rita

(1952) Fearless Fagan
as Mrs. Ardley

(1946) The Truth About Murder
as Betty

(1962) Saintly Sinners
as Mrs. McKenzie

(1951) The Mating Season
as Annie

(1968) The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Script Girl

(1948) Fighting Father Dunne
as Colpeck's Secretary

(1948) The Dark Past
as Agnes (uncredited)
(1958) As Young As We Are
as Nettie McPherson

(1982) A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
as Grandma Walton

(1971) Cannon
as Teacher

(1945) Cornered
as Swiss Maid (uncredited)

(1965) The Family Jewels
as Airline Passenger

(1935) Speed Limited
as Secretary

(1950) Captain China
as Miss Endicott

(1963) The Caretakers
as Irene

(1957) God Is My Partner
as Mrs. Dalton

(1933) Sons of the Desert
as Partygoer at Table Next to Charley's (uncredited)

(1966) The Glass Bottom Boat
as Anna Miller

(1947) Living in a Big Way
as Broken Arms' Sailors Wife (uncredited)

(1947) They Won't Believe Me
as ---

(1953) Woman They Almost Lynched
as First Townswoman

(1966) The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
as Neva Tremaine

(1933) Rafter Romance
as Telemarketer (uncredited)

(1954) Untamed Heiress
as Mrs. Flanny

(1946) Sister Kenny
as Hospital Scrub Woman (uncredited)

(1981) All the Way Home
as Great-Gandmaw

(1947) The Judge Steps Out
as Mother at Party (uncredited)

(1947) Born to Kill
as Maid (uncredited)

(1947) The Long Night
as Observer in Crowd (uncredited)

(1934) Babes in Toyland
as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial (uncredited)

(1951) The Barefoot Mailman
as Miss Della (uncredited)

(1946) The Spiral Staircase
as Neighbour (uncredited)

(1947) Forever Amber
as Marge

(1948) Strike It Rich
as Annie Harkins

(1946) The Locket
as Ginny (uncredited)

(1951) Here Comes the Groom
as Mrs. McGonigle

(1960) Tom, Dick and Harriet
as Aunt Emily

(1951) Angels in the Outfield
as Sister Veronica

(1993) A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
as Grandma Walton

(1947) The Unfaithful
as Courtroom Spectator

(1951) The Sea Hornet
as Mrs. Drinkwater

(1950) Peggy
as Mrs. Privet, the Librarian

(1957) Rockabilly Baby
as Mrs. Wellington

(1972) Napoleon and Samantha
as Gertrude

(1947) Railroaded!
as Mrs. Wills (uncredited)

(1949) Rusty Saves a Life
as Miss Simmons

(1952) Monsoon
as Katie

(1956) Slightly Scarlet
as Martha - June Lyons' Maid (uncredited)

(1997) A Walton Easter
as Grandma Walton

(1946) From This Day Forward
as Mother

(1947) Beat the Band
as Gertrude's Mother

(1948) The Noose Hangs High
as Hilda - Maid (uncredited)

(1968) A Fine Pair
as Maddy Walker

(1971) A Tattered Web
as Mrs. Simmons

(1946) The Dark Corner
as Maid (uncredited)

(1974) The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
as Ma Floyd

(1960) Visit to a Small Planet
as Mrs. Mabel Mayberry

(1953) The Vanquished
as Mrs. Barbour

(1947) The Fabulous Joe
as Cathy, the Maid

(1971) Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Abigail

(1946) Crack-Up
as Reynold's Maid (Uncredited)

(1995) A Walton Wedding
as Grandma Walton

Because I Love Him
as Mrs. Logan

(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Myrt 'Hubcaps' Lesh

(1955) Cheyenne
as Hortense Durango

(1957) Trackdown
as Henrietta Porter

(1966) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Madame Bloor

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Mrs. Stone

(1970) The Odd Couple
as Florence

(1966) Batman
as Mrs. Green

(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Mrs. Feathertree

(1962) The Lucy Show
as Miss Tanner

(1962) The Beverly Hillbillies
as Emma Poke

(1951) I Love Lucy
as Miss Hanna

(1960) Surfside 6
as Addie Horton

(1951) Dragnet
as ---

(1957) Perry Mason
as Old Lady Card Player

(1970) Night Gallery
as Miss Patience

(1953) General Electric Theater
as Frankie, Joan's maid

(1965) Get Smart
as Agnes Davenport

(1962) Saints and Sinners
as Mrs. Healy

(1967) Ironside
as Agnes Fairchild

(1972) The Waltons
as Esther Walton

(1965) Laredo
as ---

(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Maggie Ryan

(1962) Going My Way
as ---

(1966) Felony Squad
as ---

(1970) Nanny and the Professor
as Mrs. Kaufman

(1964) Daniel Boone
as Hilda Brock

(1963) The Fugitive
as Mrs. Barlow

(1955) The Millionaire
as Nancy Marlborough

(1967) The High Chaparral
as Mrs. Dilts
(1971) The Partners
as ---

(1962) The Virginian
as Mrs. Clancy

(1963) The Farmer's Daughter
as ---

(1968) Lancer
as ---

(1960) Thriller
as Mrs. Peele

(1958) Peter Gunn
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as ---

(1955) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Mrs. Jane McGill

(1957) Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Harriet Smith

(1963) The Fugitive
as Mrs. Murdock
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Miss Purdy

(1965) The Big Valley
as Emmie Pearson

(1958) Bronco
as ---

(1958) The Donna Reed Show
as Christine Moss
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Nurse

(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---

(1954) The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as Sally Benton

(1957) The Restless Gun
as Ruth Purcell

(1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as ---

(1959) Lock-Up
as ---

(1959) The Rebel
as Carrie Blyden

(1961) Ben Casey
as ---

(1964) The Addams Family
as Mother Lurch

(1964) The Baileys of Balboa
as ---
(1954) The Whistler
as ---

(1965) Honey West
as 'Nellie Peedy'

(1967) Rango
as ---
(1963) Vacation Playhouse
as ---

(1959) Tightrope
as Hazel Mason

(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Ainsley Hallie

(1953) The Man Behind the Badge
as ---

(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Mrs. Walters

(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Jennie

(1968) The Outsider
as ---

(1952) The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Aunt Ellen

(1957) The Restless Gun
as Emma Birch

(1958) The Texan
as Katy Clayton

(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Minerva Comstock

(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as Martha Ward

(1967) Mr. Terrific
as Mrs. Walters

(1961) Hazel
as Miss Minnie

(1962) The Lucy Show
as Woman in Park

(1961) 87th Precinct
as Mrs. Brodek

(1964) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as Mother

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Elizabeth Page

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Mary Carmichael

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Hannah Beecher

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Aunt Florrie Buell

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Mrs. Anderson

(1957) Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Miss Carter

(1968) Adam-12
as Camille Gearhardt
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Norah

(1968) Adam-12
as Mrs. Cunningham

(1955) The Millionaire
as Bedelia Buckley

(1953) General Electric Theater
as Ma Jericho

(1953) General Electric Theater
as Gracie Jordan
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Lavinia Penniman
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Aunt
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Elsie
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Martha - Maid

(1959) Bonanza
as Lorna Doone Mayberry

(1974) Dinah!
as Self
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Charlotte

(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marie McGurk

(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Miss Samantha

(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Emma

(1965) Please Don't Eat the Daisies
as Martha O'Reilly

(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self

(1967) The Invaders
as Aunt Sara

(1959) Bonanza
as Cora Milford

(1959) Dennis the Menace
as Miss Douglas

(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Molly Cobb
(1960) The Chevy Mystery Show
as Maria

(1957) Alcoa Theatre
as Elvira Moss

(1970) Dan August
as Agnes Oaks

(1969) Love, American Style
as The Little Old Lady

(1969) The Bill Cosby Show
as Mrs. Hilberman

(1969) Love, American Style
as Granny Gambler

(1961) Hazel
as Minerva Anderson

(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self

(1960) The Tall Man
as Hannah Blossom

(1959) Adventures in Paradise
as Sister Julia

(1958) The Rifleman
as Mrs. Morgan

(1958) The Rifleman
as Mrs. Avery

(1957) Wagon Train
as Aunt Em

(1957) The Restless Gun
as Mrs. Amy Morgan

(1954) Studio 57
as ---

(1955) The Bob Cummings Show
as Nurse

(1954) Lassie
as Bess Wright

(1954) Lassie
as Amy Baker

(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Woman at Burton Ridge Land Office

(1954) Lassie
as Pearlie Mae
(1954) Hey Mulligan
as Martha

(1954) Lassie
as Pearlie Mae Yochim
(1952) My Hero
as Henrietta Sullivan

(1951) The Red Skelton Show
as Little Old Lady
(1952) Chevron Theatre
as ---

(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Mabel
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Harriet
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Martha

(1953) Revlon Mirror Theatre
as Mrs. Logan

(1953) Revlon Mirror Theatre
as Clara

(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as The Chief Nurse

(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee

(1957) Trackdown
as Henrietta

(1961) The Asphalt Jungle
as Mrs. Peterson