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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.
As actor
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
Bewitched
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Super 8½
A Bewitched Christmas
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
The Panama Deception
With Murder in Mind
Sins of the Mother
Face to Face
Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair
Between the Darkness and the Dawn
Amos
Second Sight: A Love Story
Missing Pieces
The Rules of Marriage
When the Circus Came to Town
Belle Starr
Act of Violence
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
A Killing Affair
Dark Victory
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
A Case of Rape
Mrs. Sundance
The Victim
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Bikini Beach