Elizabeth Montgomery
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.
71 acting credits
Acting · 71
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Bewitched
1964
Wagon Train
1957
The Flintstones
1960
The Twilight Zone
1959
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Tony Awards
1956
Climax!
1954
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Untouchables
1959
Burke's Law
1963
Rawhide
1959
Studio One
1948
Thriller
1960
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
One Step Beyond
1959
Checkmate
1960
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
The Third Man
1959
Riverboat
1959
Suspicion
1957
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
Johnny Staccato
1959
Letter to Loretta
1953
Saints and Sinners
1962
Bewitched
2005
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Appointment with Adventure
1955
Frontier Circus
1961
The Tab Hunter Show
1960
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
The Awakening Land
1978
Bikini Beach
1964
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993
Johnny Cool
1963
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
Belle Starr
1980
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955
Bells Are Ringing
1960
Second Sight: A Love Story
1984
Dark Victory
1976
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975
The Victim
1972
With Murder in Mind
1992
Mrs. Sundance
1974
Sins of the Mother
1991
A Case of Rape
1974
The Spiral Staircase
1961
Face to Face
1990
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
A Killing Affair
1977
Act of Violence
1979
The Rules of Marriage
1982
When the Circus Came to Town
1981
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
1979
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
1994
Amos
1985
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
1995
Super 8½
1994
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963
Patterns
1955
Missing Pieces
1983
Summer Pavilion
1955
Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair
1988
The Panama Deception
1992
Bitter Heritage
1958
Between the Darkness and the Dawn
1985
A Bewitched Christmas
1994