Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery achieved something genuinely rare: a single twitch of the nose became permanent global shorthand for an entire show. What I admire most, though, is how hard she worked to escape Samantha afterward, taking on dark, demanding television films that proved the sitcom charm was a choice, not a ceiling. Five Emmy nominations for Bewitched suggest the industry always knew she was doing more than light comedy. Born in Hollywood to a performing family, she could have coasted; instead she kept testing herself across five decades. Her death in 1995 at sixty-two still reads like an unfinished sentence.

Name (English)

Elizabeth Montgomery

Name (Japanese)

エリザベス・モンゴメリー

Reading

えりざべす・もんごめりー

Born

April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

Origin

Hollywood, California, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor / stage actor

Awards & achievements

• 1954 Theatre World Award
• 1995 Lucy Award
• 2008 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B6%E3%83%99%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

Tags

• California
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.