Margaret Hamilton
Date of birth: 1902-12-09
Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Margaret Brainard Hamilton
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film actress known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actor in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and retained a lifelong commitment to public education.
Movie Credits
The Wizard of Oz
1939-08-15
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938-02-11
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947-04-04
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered H
The Red Pony
1949-03-08
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Sal
The Anderson Tapes
1971-06-17
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her pos
The Night Strangler
1973-01-16
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job
Babes in Arms
1939-10-10
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir
Brewster McCloud
1970-12-05
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951-07-26
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy
A Slight Case of Murder
1938-02-26
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law
The Invisible Woman
1940-12-28
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that wil
My Little Chickadee
1940-02-09
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked
13 Ghosts
1960-05-16
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family.
Guest in the House
1944-12-08
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. T
Nothing Sacred
1937-11-25
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper
Saratoga
1937-07-23
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The Making of the Wizard of Oz
1979-01-01
The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, h
You Only Live Once
1937-01-23
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre
The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940-10-11
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav
These Three
1936-03-18
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local do
Another Language
1933-07-28
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Broadway Bill
1934-11-30
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh
Driftwood
1947-09-15
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely o
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending
The Moon's Our Home
1936-04-10
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that
Wabash Avenue
1950-03-31
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thrivin
Riding High
1950-04-12
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b
Play Girl
1941-01-29
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her
The Sun Comes Up
1949-05-12
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness
Mountain Justice
1937-04-24
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej
Hat, Coat and Glove
1934-07-26
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder
I'll Take Romance
1937-11-17
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace M
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935-07-05
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Stablemates
1938-10-07
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down
There's Always Tomorrow
1934-11-01
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a for
Chatterbox
1936-01-17
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes th
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
1976-10-30
A Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde which aired only once on October 29, 1976
Janie Gets Married
1946-06-22
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her fath
Rosie!
1967-11-22
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have
By Your Leave
1934-11-09
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Paradise Alley
1962-01-02
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the live
Mother Carey's Chickens
1938-07-29
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
The Affairs of Martha
1942-06-21
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids i
Way Down East
1935-10-25
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the wo
When's Your Birthday?
1937-02-19
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Ta
The Daydreamer
1966-06-01
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to ma
Breaking the Ice
1938-09-22
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Jo
Ghostbreakers
1967-09-08
A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted ho
City Without Men
1943-01-14
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to
People Will Talk
1951-08-29
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Pro
Faithful in My Fashion
1946-08-21
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, i
Laughing at Trouble
1936-12-11
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publ
The Witness Chair
1936-04-23
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker
George White's Scandals
1945-10-09
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
The Gay Vagabond
1941-05-12
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949-05-27
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943-03-11
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t
Meet the Stewarts
1942-05-28
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
Johnny Come Lately
1943-09-03
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper.
Reaching from Heaven
1948-02-01
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in
Bungalow 13
1948-11-19
In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate w
Main Street Lawyer
1939-11-02
A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmaile
State of the Union
1948-04-30
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both
The Dark Side of the Rainbow
2000-07-01
The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side o
Twin Beds
1942-04-30
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr
Dishonored Lady
1947-05-16
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with a
Angel in My Pocket
1969-04-02
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.
A String of Blue Beads
1953-01-01
A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology series of
The Good Old Soak
1937-04-23
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009-09-23
A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of
I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
1940-10-19
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their young
The Christmas Tree
1958-12-14
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NB
Letters from Frank
1979-11-22
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a compute
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
1990-02-20
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of c
Journey Back to Oz
1972-12-14
Dorothy and Toto return to Oz to find the Scarecrow ruling the Emerald City. Unfortunately for the n
The Bat
1960-03-29
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities suppos
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965-04-01
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Na
On Borrowed Time
1957-11-17
Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather ch
Four's a Crowd
1938-08-04
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place
Zoo in Budapest
1933-04-28
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true frien
Oz
A behind-the-scenes look at the 1939 Wizard of Oz film adaptation that tested the limits of its crea