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Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933
– May 18, 1995) was an United
States|American movie and television actress. She
was the daughter of actor Robert Montgomery
(actor)|Robert Montgomery and his wife, Elizabeth
Bryan Allen.

She is best remembered for her leading role as the
witch Samantha in the American Broadcasting
Company|ABC situation comedy Bewitched. This show
was a huge success during its eight-year run from
1964 to 1972 and remains popular through
Television syndication|syndication and the 2005
movie Bewitched_(movie)|remake starring Will
Ferrell and Nicole Kidman. Montgomery received
five Emmy Award and four Golden Globe nominations
for her role as Samantha. 

Montgomery made her television debut in her
father's series Robert Montgomery Presents and her
film debut in 1955 in The Court Martial of Billy
Mitchell and languished in supporting roles and
appearances in television series for the early
part of her career.  

Montgomery refused to do Samantha's famous nose
twitch for fans after Bewitched went off the air,
and was reluctant to discuss this role. She spent
the remainder of her career pursuing dramatic
roles that took her as far away from the
good-natured Samantha typecasting as possible. She
received Emmy Award nominations for playing a rape
victim in A Case of Rape (1974), for her portrayal
of the notorious Lizzie Borden in The Legend of
Lizzie Borden (1975), and for her role as a strong
woman facing hardship in 1820's Ohio in the
mini-series The Awakening Land (1978). She also
made a chilling villain in the 1985 picture Amos,
playing a nurse in a state home who terrorized
residents Kirk Douglas and Dorothy McGuire.

She was married to the actor Gig Young from 1956
to 1963; the Bewitched producer William Asher from
1963 to 1973 and lived with actor Robert Foxworth
for 20 years until her death. She married Foxworth
in 1993.

With William Asher, she had three children. She
also had an older sister, Martha Bryan Montgomery,
who died before Elizabeth was born, and a brother,
Robert Montgomery Jr., who was born in 1936.

Montgomery died in 1995 at the age of 62, from
colorectal cancer, eight weeks after being
diagnosed with that disease, and her body was
cremated. At the time of her death, the media
widely reported that she had ignored the symptoms
of her illness until it was too late, as she was
caring for Foxworth, who had hip replacement
surgery. Unwilling to die in a hospital and with
no hope of recovery, she elected to return to the
Beverly Hills home she shared with Foxworth, and
died there with him and her children by her side.

==Selected filmography==
*The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
*The Twilight Zone (1961), alongside Charles
Bronson.
*Johnny Cool (1963)
*Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
*The Victim (1972) 
*Mrs. Sundance (1974)
*A Case of Rape (1974)
*The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
*Act of Violence (1979 movie) TV (1979) 
*Belle Starr (1980)
*When the Circus Came to Town (1981)
*The Rules of Marriage (1982)
*Amos (1985) 
*Face to Face (1990) 

==Narration==
*The Panama Deception (1992)
*Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (1988)
(voice)

Two audio books in which Montgomery narrates the
work of Anne Rice (writing as Anne Rampling) are
available as of 2005. 

==External links==
* imdb name|id=0000548|name=Elizabeth Montgomery