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 a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009
as Self
A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of all time including archival interviews, behind-the...

The Dark Side of the Rainbow
2000
as Miss Gulch (archive footage)
The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of sync...

The Dark Side of Oz
1995
as Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West (archive footage)
Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of t...

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

Letters from Frank
1979
as Grandma Miller
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes...

The Making of the Wizard of Oz
1979
as Self
The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured.

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
1976
as Wicked Witch
A Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde which aired only once on October 29, 1976 on ABC. It features guest stars including Margaret...

The Night Strangler
1973
as Prof. Crabwell
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is o...

Journey Back to Oz
1972
as Aunt Em (voice)
Dorothy and Toto return to the Land of Oz to find the Scarecrow as ruler of the Emerald City. Unfortunately for the new mayor, the wicked Mombi is con...

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...

The Anderson Tapes
1971
as Miss Kaler
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the enti...

Brewster McCloud
1970
as Daphne Heap
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of...

Angel in My Pocket
1969
as Rhoda
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

Rosie!
1967
as Mae
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.

Ghostbreakers
1967
as Ivy Rumson
A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.

The Daydreamer
1966
as Mrs. Klopplebobbler
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, ...

The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
as Aunt Huddy in Comin' Round The Mountain (archive footage)
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello...

Paradise Alley
1962
as Mrs. Nicholson
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of ...

13 Ghosts
1960
as Elaine Zacharides
Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune,...

The Bat
1960
as Lizzie Allen
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spins...
The Christmas Tree
1958
as Miss Finch
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s...
On Borrowed Time
1957
as Demetria Riffle
Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather change this dire situation?

A String of Blue Beads
1953
as Mrs. Loomis
A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology series of short stories that never came to be. What makes t...

People Will Talk
1951
as Sarah Pickett (uncredited)
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodo...

Comin' Round the Mountain
1951
as Aunt Huddy
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, S...

Riding High
1950
as Edna
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Wabash Avenue
1950
as Tillie Hutch
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it bac...

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949
as Mrs. Elvira O'Toole (uncredited)
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news f...

The Sun Comes Up
1949
as Mrs. Golightly
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy...

The Red Pony
1949
as Teacher
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the ...

Bungalow 13
1948
as Mrs. Theresa Appleby
In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspe...

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Ruby Cheever
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and ...

State of the Union
1948
as Norah
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Reaching from Heaven
1948
as Sophie Manley
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped menta...

Driftwood
1947
as Essie
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Dishonored Lady
1947
as Mrs. Geiger
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depres...

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
as Flora
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, de...

Faithful in My Fashion
1946
as Miss Applegate
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge pr...

Janie Gets Married
1946
as Mrs. Angles
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

George White's Scandals
1945
as Clarabelle Evans
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

Guest in the House
1944
as Hilda
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother,...

Johnny Come Lately
1943
as Myrtle Ferguso
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will b...

The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
as Mrs. Larch (uncredited)
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

City Without Men
1943
as Dora
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she ...

The Affairs of Martha
1942
as Guinevere
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Meet the Stewarts
1942
as Willametta
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

Twin Beds
1942
as Norah
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

The Gay Vagabond
1941
as Agatha Badger
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

Play Girl
1941
as Josie
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

The Invisible Woman
1940
as Mrs. Jackson
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invis...

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
1940
as Mrs. Triffle
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and onl...

The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940
as Mrs. Wilson
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get...

My Little Chickadee
1940
as Mrs. Gideon
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold...

Main Street Lawyer
1939
as Lucy, Boggs' Housekeeper
A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.

Babes in Arms
1939
as Martha Steele
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa...

Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
as Miss Hannaberry
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit...

The Wizard of Oz
1939
as Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...

Stablemates
1938
as Beulah Flanders
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Breaking the Ice
1938
as Mrs. Small
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm...

Four's a Crowd
1938
as Amy
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.

Mother Carey's Chickens
1938
as Pauline Fuller
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

A Slight Case of Murder
1938
as Mrs. Cagle
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
as Mrs. Harper
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witn...

Nothing Sacred
1937
as Warsaw, Vermont Drugstore Lady
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

I'll Take Romance
1937
as Margot
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, how...

Saratoga
1937
as Lady at Kiffmeyer's table in train dining car
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Mountain Justice
1937
as Phoebe Lamb
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

The Good Old Soak
1937
as Minnie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

When's Your Birthday?
1937
as Mossy
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

You Only Live Once
1937
as Hester
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is fr...

Laughing at Trouble
1936
as Lizzie Beadle
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the re...

The Witness Chair
1936
as Grace Franklin
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking t...

The Moon's Our Home
1936
as Mitty Simpson
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During t...

These Three
1936
as Agatha
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students e...

Chatterbox
1936
as Emily 'Tippie' Tipton
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapprov...

Way Down East
1935
as Martha Perkins
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret i...

The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
as Lucy Gurget
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Broadway Bill
1934
as Edna
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his j...

By Your Leave
1934
as Whiffen
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

There's Always Tomorrow
1934
as Ella
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.

Hat, Coat and Glove
1934
as Madame Du Barry
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.

Another Language
1933
as Helen Hallam
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.