Agnes Moorehead and Endora

While the Wicked Witch of the West may be the first that comes to mind when mentioning witches on film, when speaking of witches on television, the first that usually comes to mind is meddling mother-in-law Endora, played by the incomparable Agnes Moorehead on the American situation-comedy series Bewitched from 1964 to 1972. Here is a fan compilation of some of her best scenes:




Prior to her eight season tenure as Endora, Ms. Moorehead had portrayed another famous witch, Mombi, in an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz presented on The Shirley Temple Show, with Frances Bergman as the good witch Glinda.



Agnes had also provided the voice for the Wicked Witch of the West in a radio series based on Baum's Oz books which aired on NBC in the 1940s. On other installments of the Shirley Temple Show, she played Hepzibah Pyncheon in "The House of the Seven Gables," and the witch in "Rapunzel."

In one of her last television roles, Agnes once again portrayed a witch, this one inspired by Macbeth but with a comedic bent, in the vignette "Witches' Feast" in an installment of Night Gallery, co-starring with Ruth Buzzi.