MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film actress known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actor in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image.

In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and retained a lifelong commitment to public education.

Sign up to watch Free Margaret Hamilton Movies

Movies Starring Margaret Hamilton (84)

Lynch/Oz (2023)

Victor Fleming's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch's most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch's work. ...

Watch Now

To Oz! The Making of a Classic (2009)

A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of all time including archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and rare musical outtakes. ...

Watch Now

The Dark Side of the Rainbow (2000)

The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film. ...

Watch Now

The Dark Side of Oz (1995)

Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz ...

Watch Now

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990)

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film. ...

Watch Now

Night of 100 Stars (1982)

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution ...

Watch Now

Letters from Frank (1979)

When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes enraged and starts writing letters to his son, Richard, expressing his fury. ...

Watch Now

The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1979)

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured. ...

Watch Now

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)

A Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde which aired only once on October 29, 1976 on ABC. It features guest stars including Margaret Hamilton (who reprises her role as the Wicked Witch of the West), Billie Hayes (as Witchiepoo from H.R. P ...

Watch Now

The Night Strangler (1973)

After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a ki ...

Watch Now

Journey Back to Oz (1972)

Dorothy and Toto return to the Land of Oz to find the Scarecrow as ruler of the Emerald City. Unfortunately for the new mayor, the wicked Mombi is conspiring to take over the city for herself. With the help of the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion and other ...

Watch Now

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system. ...

Watch Now

The Anderson Tapes (1971)

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, althoug ...

Watch Now

Brewster McCloud (1970)

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others wh ...

Watch Now

Angel in My Pocket (1969)

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens. ...

Watch Now

Rosie! (1967)

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane. ...

Watch Now

Ghostbreakers (1967)

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house. ...

Watch Now

The Daydreamer (1966)

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including ...

Watch Now

The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Mexican Hayride, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Little Gi ...

Watch Now

Paradise Alley (1962)

An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of Hollywood magic! ...

Watch Now

13 Ghosts (1960)

Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property they have also inherited the occultist's collection of 13 ghosts. ...

Watch Now

The Bat (1960)

A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spinster Cornelia Van Gorde. ...

Watch Now

The Christmas Tree (1958)

The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short story "An Affair at the Inn" by Charles J. Finger. A number of stars in short skits, including Carol Channi ...

Watch Now

On Borrowed Time (1957)

Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather change this dire situation? ...

Watch Now

A String of Blue Beads (1953)

A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology series of short stories that never came to be. What makes this little film fascinating is it was one of the earliest color broadcasts on television and happily is on ...

Watch Now

People Will Talk (1951)

Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. ...

Watch Now

Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)

Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find. ...

Watch Now

Riding High (1950)

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race. ...

Watch Now

Wabash Avenue (1950)

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthe ...

Watch Now

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and frie ...

Watch Now

The Sun Comes Up (1949)

Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog. ...

Watch Now

The Red Pony (1949)

Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for compa ...

Watch Now

Bungalow 13 (1948)

In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects. ...

Watch Now

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the h ...

Watch Now

State of the Union (1948)

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels. ...

Watch Now

Reaching from Heaven (1948)

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and a ...

Watch Now

Driftwood (1947)

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan's closely observed studies in Americana. ...

Watch Now

Dishonored Lady (1947)

Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, M ...

Watch Now

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with ...

Watch Now

Faithful in My Fashion (1946)

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man. ...

Watch Now

Janie Gets Married (1946)

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper. ...

Watch Now

George White's Scandals (1945)

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical. ...

Watch Now

Guest in the House (1944)

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the ...

Watch Now

Johnny Come Lately (1943)

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilt ...

Watch Now

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot. ...

Watch Now

City Without Men (1943)

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates. ...

Watch Now

The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé. ...

Watch Now

Meet the Stewarts (1942)

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget. ...

Watch Now

Twin Beds (1942)

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes. ...

Watch Now

The Gay Vagabond (1941)

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business. ...

Watch Now

Play Girl (1941)

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks. ...

Watch Now

The Invisible Woman (1940)

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss. ...

Watch Now

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940)

In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their parents. On the nights they are to go out, they sneak out wit ...

Watch Now

The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a te ...

Watch Now

My Little Chickadee (1940)

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion wi ...

Watch Now

Main Street Lawyer (1939)

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster. ...

Watch Now

Babes in Arms (1939)

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl. ...

Watch Now

Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder h ...

Watch Now

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch ...

Watch Now

Stablemates (1938)

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race. ...

Watch Now

Breaking the Ice (1938)

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hom ...

Watch Now

Four's a Crowd (1938)

A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter. ...

Watch Now

Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town. ...

Watch Now

A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. ...

Watch Now

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder. ...

Watch Now

Nothing Sacred (1937)

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine. ...

Watch Now

I'll Take Romance (1937)

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showeri ...

Watch Now

Saratoga (1937)

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ...

Watch Now

Mountain Justice (1937)

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse. ...

Watch Now

The Good Old Soak (1937)

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction. ...

Watch Now

When's Your Birthday? (1937)

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology. ...

Watch Now

You Only Live Once (1937)

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after ...

Watch Now

Laughing at Trouble (1936)

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is. ...

Watch Now

The Witness Chair (1936)

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady ...

Watch Now

The Moon's Our Home (1936)

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love. ...

Watch Now

These Three (1936)

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's live ...

Watch Now

Chatterbox (1936)

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working ...

Watch Now

Way Down East (1935)

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about. ...

Watch Now

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm. ...

Watch Now

Broadway Bill (1934)

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his ...

Watch Now

By Your Leave (1934)

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes. ...

Watch Now

There's Always Tomorrow (1934)

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee. ...

Watch Now

Hat, Coat and Glove (1934)

A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village. ...

Watch Now

Another Language (1933)

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages. ...

Watch Now