
Mercedes McCambridge
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography

The Friday the 13th Murders
2025
as Self – John's Mother / Actress, The Exorcist (archive footage)

The Other Side of the Wind
2018
as Maggie Noonan

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
as Self

Amazing Stories: The Movie III
1998
as Miss Lestrange (voice)

Amazing Stories
1985
as Miss Lestrange (voice)
Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures
1983
as Narrator (voice)

Echoes
1982
as Lillian Gerben

Cagney & Lacey
1982

Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Agatha Kimball
Hagen
1980

The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Nelli

The Sacketts
1979
as Ma Sackett

Flying High
1978

Thieves
1977
as Street Lady

Charlie's Angels
1976
as Norma

Who Is the Black Dahlia?
1975
as Grandmother

Khan!
1975

The Exorcist
1973
as Demon (voice)

The Girls of Huntington House
1973
as Doris McKenzie

The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as Hester Madigan

Sixteen
1972
as Mother

Killer by Night
1972
as Sister Sarah

Two for the Money
1972
as Mrs. Castle

99 Women
1969
as Thelma Diaz

Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Madame Dusbois

Medical Center
1969

The Counterfeit Killer
1968
as Frances

The Name of the Game
1968

ABC Stage 67
1966

Run Home Slow
1965
as Nell Hagen

Lost in Space
1965
as Sybilla

Bewitched
1964
as Carlotta
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

The Dakotas
1963
as Jay French

Angel Baby
1961
as Sarah Strand

Dr. Kildare
1961
as Sister Teresa

The Defenders
1961
as Mildred Cochraine

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Cimarron
1960
as Mrs. Sarah Wyatt

Suddenly, Last Summer
1959
as Grace Holly

Rawhide
1959
as Mrs. Miller

Riverboat
1959
as Jessie Quinn

Bonanza
1959
as Matilda Curtis

Rawhide
1959
as Mrs. Martha Mushgrove

Rawhide
1959
as Ada Randolph

Rawhide
1959
as Ma Gufler

Bonanza
1959
as Deborah Banning

Touch of Evil
1958
as Gang Leader (uncredited)

A Farewell to Arms
1957
as Mrs. Van Campen

Panic!
1957

Wagon Train
1957
as Emily Rossiter

Giant
1956
as Luz Benedict

Wire Service
1956
as Kate Wells

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee

Gunsmoke
1955
as Rubilee Mather

Johnny Guitar
1954
as Emma Small

Climax!
1954
as Eliza
Summer Playhouse
1954

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Letter to Loretta
1953
as Cissy Brackett

The Scarf
1951
as Connie Carter

Lightning Strikes Twice
1951
as Liza McStringer

Inside Straight
1951
as Ada Stritch

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Tales of Tomorrow
1951

The Red Skelton Show
1951
as Clara Appleby
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Marie
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Chris

What's My Line?
1950
as Self

All the King's Men
1949
as Sadie Burke

Studio One
1948

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

Studio One
1948
as Connie MartIn