Margaret Hamilton

Trivia: While Hamilton was a teacher back in Cleveland, one of her students was young Jim Backus. Linda Hunt is the announcer for the KQED public radio lecture/interview show City Arts & Lectures. She died in Salisbury, Connecticut from a heart attack. Beside her acting abilities, her two most distinguishing characteristics are her small stature (she is 4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice which she has used effectively in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Hamilton was married briefly in the 30s and had one son, whom she raised on her own. Her movie debut was in the film Popeye. She continued acting regularly until her final role in 1979. Her best known roles are as the male half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) (for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress) and as Judge Zoey Hiller on the television series The Practice.

During the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in television, and had a substantial role in the made for television film The Night Strangler (1973). Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American actress. For example, Hamilton starred in a now-forgotten noir flick of 1948 from one of the "poverty row" studios, entitled Bungalow 13, which co-starred Richard Cromwell. Linda Hunt's Internet Movie Database entry (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/). She appeared regularly in supporting roles in films until the early 1950s, and sporadically thereafter. Fame (1978). Hamilton had to recuperate in a hospital and at home for six weeks time after the accident before returning to the set to complete her work on the now-classic film. Space Rangers (1993).

During the shoot, Hamilton suffered severe burns when the trap-door elevator she was riding on the soundstage malfunctioned during her "fiery disappearance" from Munchkin Land. The Practice (1997). Hamilton's effective and frightening portrayal eventually secured her the role over the originally cast, but more glamourous, Gale Sondergaard. Popeye (1980). In 1939, she played in the role of the Wicked Witch opposite Judy Garland 's Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and created not only her most famous role, but one of the screen's most memorable villains. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). She appeared in such films as These Three (1936), Saratoga and Nothing Sacred (both 1937) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938). Dune (1984).

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Hamilton was a school teacher who turned to acting, making her screen debut in 1933 in Zoo in Budapest. Silverado (1985). Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 - May 16, 1985) was an American film actress. Kindergarten Cop (1990). Pocahontas (1995).