Agnes Robertson Moorehead

 Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974)

Her career of six decades included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead was well known for her role as Endora on the television series Bewitched. She was also notable for her film roles in Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, All That Heaven Allows, Show Boat and Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte. While rarely playing leads in films, Moorehead's skill at character development and range earned her one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards in addition to four Academy Award and six Emmy Award nominations. Moorehead's transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy. She could play many different types, but often portrayed haughty, arrogant characters. Moorehead died of uterine cancer on April 30, 1974, in Rochester, Minnesota, and is interred at Dayton Memorial Park in Dayton, Ohio. Incidentally, Moorehead appeared in the 1956 movie The Conqueror, which was filmed near St. George, Utah—downwind from the Yucca Flat, Nevada, nuclear test site. She was one of over 90 (of 220) cast and crew members — including co-stars Susan Hayward, John Wayne, and Pedro Armendariz, as well as director-producer Dick Powell — who developed cancer; at least 46 died from the disease.