Agnes Moorehead

• Birthplace: Clinton, Massachusetts, USA

This angular, versatile character player is best remembered for her vibrant turn as Endora on the sitcom "Bewitched" and for her dramatic roles in two Orson Welles films: as the protagonist's misguided mother in "Citizen Kane" (1941) and as the lonely, forbidding spinster in "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942). The New England-born Moorehead had appeared in every kind of 20th century entertainment. She started in the late 1910s in an opera company and was singing on the radio by 1923. Eking out her living with t…more