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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 16, 1916
Died
March 2, 2004
Place of Birth
Joliet, Illinois, U.S.
Also Known As
- Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge
Mercedes McCambridge
1.0 Popularity
Biography
Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress". She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ¨All the King's Men¨ (1949) and was nominated in the same category for ¨Giant¨ (1956). She also provided the voice of the demon ¨Pazuzu¨ in ¨The Exorcist¨ (1973). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mercedes McCambridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia Read more:
Known For
9.0
Self - John Markle's Mother / Actress (archive footage)
The Friday the 13th Murders
2025
6.7
Maggie Noonan
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
7.7
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
0.0
Miss Lestrange
Family Dog
1988
7.4
Miss Lestrange (voice)
Amazing Stories
1985
🎬
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures
1983
7.0
Cagney & Lacey
1982
3.7
Lillian Gerben
Echoes
1982
7.3
Agatha Kimball
Magnum, P.I.
1980
🎬
5.0
Hagen
1980
Credits
The Friday the 13th Murders
as Self - John Markle's Mother / Actress (archive footage)
2025
9.0
The Other Side of the Wind
as Maggie Noonan
2018
6.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
2011
7.7
Family Dog
as Miss Lestrange
1988
0.0
Amazing Stories
as Miss Lestrange (voice)
1985
7.4
🎬
Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures
as Narrator (voice)
1983
0.0
Cagney & Lacey
1982
7.0
Echoes
as Lillian Gerben
1982
3.7
Magnum, P.I.
as Agatha Kimball
1980
7.3
🎬
Hagen
1980
5.0
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Nelli
1979
4.7
The Sacketts
as Ma Sackett
1979
7.5
Flying High
1978
4.5
Thieves
as Street Lady
1977
3.0
Charlie's Angels
as Norma
1976
6.7
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
as Grandmother
1975
6.4
🎬
Khan!
1975
5.0
The Exorcist
as Demon (voice)
1973
7.7
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Hester Madigan
1973
6.2
The Girls of Huntington House
as Doris McKenzie
1973
6.0
Sixteen
as Mother
1972
3.6
Two for the Money
as Mrs. Castle
1972
6.0
Killer by Night
as Sister Sarah
1972
7.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Madame Dusbois
1969
5.0
99 Women
as Thelma Diaz
1969
5.3
The Name of the Game
1968
6.8
The Counterfeit Killer
as Frances
1968
0.0
ABC Stage 67
1966
6.2
Run Home Slow
as Nell Hagen
1965
2.7
Lost in Space
as Sybilla
1965
7.1
Bewitched
as Carlotta
1964
7.9
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Dr. Kildare
as Sister Teresa
1961
5.5
The Defenders
as Mildred Cochraine
1961
5.9
Angel Baby
as Sarah Strand
1961
6.0
Cimarron
as Mrs. Sarah Wyatt
1960
6.0
Suddenly, Last Summer
as Grace Holly
1959
7.3
Riverboat
as Jessie Quinn
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Matilda Curtis
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Deborah Banning
1959
7.5
Rawhide
as Mrs. Miller
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Mrs. Martha Mushgrove
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Ada Randolph
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Ma Gufler
1959
7.2
Touch of Evil
as Gang Leader (uncredited)
1958
7.8
A Farewell to Arms
as Mrs. Van Campen
1957
5.9
Wagon Train
as Emily Rossiter
1957
6.6
Panic!
1957
0.0
Giant
as Luz Benedict
1956
7.6
Wire Service
as Kate Wells
1956
0.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Gunsmoke
as Rubilee Mather
1955
6.6
Climax!
as Eliza
1954
3.3
🎬
Summer Playhouse
1954
0.0
Johnny Guitar
as Emma Small
1954
7.4
Letter to Loretta
as Cissy Brackett
1953
6.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
The Red Skelton Show
as Clara Appleby
1951
7.4
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Liza McStringer
1951
5.5
The Scarf
as Connie Carter
1951
5.6
Inside Straight
as Ada Stritch
1951
4.2
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Marie
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Chris
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
All the King's Men
as Sadie Burke
1949
7.0
Studio One
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Connie MartIn
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8