Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

1902-12-09 Cleveland, Ohio, USA 83 Credits

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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...

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To Oz! The Making of a Classic

2009

as Self

Acting

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

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

2000

as Miss Gulch (archive footage)

8.7
Acting

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

The Dark Side of Oz

1995

as Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West (archive footage)

Acting

Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

1990

as Self (archive footage)

8.3
Acting

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

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7
Acting

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

Letters from Frank

1979

as Grandma Miller

Acting

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

The Making of the Wizard of Oz

1979

as Self

Acting

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

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

1976

as Wicked Witch

5.8
Acting

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

The Night Strangler

1973

as Prof. Crabwell

6.7
Acting

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

Journey Back to Oz

1972

as Aunt Em (voice)

5.5
Acting

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

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

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

The Anderson Tapes

1971

as Miss Kaler

6.2
Acting

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

Brewster McCloud

1970

as Daphne Heap

6.4
Acting

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

Angel in My Pocket

1969

as Rhoda

5.8
Acting

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

Rosie!

Rosie!

1967

as Mae

Acting

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

Ghostbreakers

Ghostbreakers

1967

as Ivy Rumson

2.0
Acting

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.

The Daydreamer

The Daydreamer

1966

as Mrs. Klopplebobbler

5.0
Acting

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

The World of Abbott and Costello

1965

as Aunt Huddy in Comin' Round The Mountain (archive footage)

6.3
Acting

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

Paradise Alley

1962

as Mrs. Nicholson

6.0
Acting

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

13 Ghosts

1960

as Elaine Zacharides

5.7
Acting

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

The Bat

1960

as Lizzie Allen

5.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

A String of Blue Beads

1953

as Mrs. Loomis

6.0
Acting

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

People Will Talk

1951

as Sarah Pickett (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

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

Comin' Round the Mountain

1951

as Aunt Huddy

6.0
Acting

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

Riding High

1950

as Edna

5.8
Acting

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

Wabash Avenue

Wabash Avenue

1950

as Tillie Hutch

4.7
Acting

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

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

1949

as Mrs. Elvira O'Toole (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

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

The Sun Comes Up

1949

as Mrs. Golightly

6.4
Acting

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

The Red Pony

1949

as Teacher

5.7
Acting

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

Bungalow 13

1948

as Mrs. Theresa Appleby

1.0
Acting

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

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

1948

as Ruby Cheever

5.3
Acting

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

State of the Union

1948

as Norah

6.7
Acting

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Reaching from Heaven

Reaching from Heaven

1948

as Sophie Manley

Acting

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

Driftwood

1947

as Essie

6.1
Acting

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

Dishonored Lady

1947

as Mrs. Geiger

5.7
Acting

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

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

1947

as Flora

6.3
Acting

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

Faithful in My Fashion

1946

as Miss Applegate

6.3
Acting

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

Janie Gets Married

1946

as Mrs. Angles

6.0
Acting

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

George White's Scandals

1945

as Clarabelle Evans

5.3
Acting

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

Guest in the House

Guest in the House

1944

as Hilda

4.4
Acting

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

Johnny Come Lately

1943

as Myrtle Ferguso

6.7
Acting

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

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943

as Mrs. Larch (uncredited)

7.7
Acting

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

City Without Men

1943

as Dora

5.0
Acting

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

The Affairs of Martha

1942

as Guinevere

6.2
Acting

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

Meet the Stewarts

1942

as Willametta

4.3
Acting

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

Twin Beds

Twin Beds

1942

as Norah

2.7
Acting

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

The Gay Vagabond

1941

as Agatha Badger

Acting

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

Play Girl

Play Girl

1941

as Josie

6.3
Acting

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

The Invisible Woman

1940

as Mrs. Jackson

5.7
Acting

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

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now

1940

as Mrs. Triffle

6.0
Acting

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

The Villain Still Pursued Her

1940

as Mrs. Wilson

5.1
Acting

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

My Little Chickadee

1940

as Mrs. Gideon

6.4
Acting

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

Main Street Lawyer

1939

as Lucy, Boggs' Housekeeper

2.0
Acting

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms

1939

as Martha Steele

6.4
Acting

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

Angels Wash Their Faces

1939

as Miss Hannaberry

6.4
Acting

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

The Wizard of Oz

1939

as Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West

7.6
Acting

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

Stablemates

1938

as Beulah Flanders

4.5
Acting

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

Breaking the Ice

1938

as Mrs. Small

5.4
Acting

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

Four's a Crowd

1938

as Amy

5.1
Acting

A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.

Mother Carey's Chickens

Mother Carey's Chickens

1938

as Pauline Fuller

5.2
Acting

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder

1938

as Mrs. Cagle

6.2
Acting

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938

as Mrs. Harper

6.5
Acting

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

Nothing Sacred

1937

as Warsaw, Vermont Drugstore Lady

6.3
Acting

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

I'll Take Romance

1937

as Margot

5.0
Acting

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

Saratoga

1937

as Lady at Kiffmeyer's table in train dining car

6.2
Acting

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Mountain Justice

Mountain Justice

1937

as Phoebe Lamb

5.5
Acting

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

The Good Old Soak

The Good Old Soak

1937

as Minnie

Acting

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

When's Your Birthday?

When's Your Birthday?

1937

as Mossy

4.0
Acting

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

You Only Live Once

1937

as Hester

7.1
Acting

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

Laughing at Trouble

1936

as Lizzie Beadle

6.0
Acting

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

The Witness Chair

1936

as Grace Franklin

6.2
Acting

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

The Moon's Our Home

1936

as Mitty Simpson

6.5
Acting

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

These Three

1936

as Agatha

7.1
Acting

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

Chatterbox

1936

as Emily 'Tippie' Tipton

6.0
Acting

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

Way Down East

1935

as Martha Perkins

3.0
Acting

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

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935

as Lucy Gurget

6.1
Acting

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill

1934

as Edna

6.0
Acting

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

By Your Leave

1934

as Whiffen

3.0
Acting

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

There's Always Tomorrow

There's Always Tomorrow

1934

as Ella

8.0
Acting

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.

Hat, Coat and Glove

Hat, Coat and Glove

1934

as Madame Du Barry

5.5
Acting

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

Another Language

1933

as Helen Hallam

6.3
Acting

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.