Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was born on 15 April 1933, in Los Angeles, California, USA, of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Elizabeth was an actress, probably best known for her characterisation of Samantha Stephens in the series “Bewitched”. She also had parts in television films including “The Legend of Lizzie Borden”, and “A Case of Rape”. All of her efforts helped put her net worth to where it was prior to her passing from cancer in 1995.
How rich was Elizabeth Montgomery? As of mid-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that was at $5 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting. She was part of the industry for over five decades and found success on various platforms, all of which contributed to the position of her wealth before her death.
Elizabeth Montgomery Net Worth $5 million
Elizabeth was the daughter of Robert Montgomery and Elizabeth Daniel Bryan Montgomery, both of whom were actors. She attended Westlake School for Girls and then Spence School. After matriculating, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, studying there for three years.
One of her earliest opportunities was as part of his father’s show “Robert Montgomery Presents”, in which she appeared occasionally. She would go on and make her debut on Broadway in “Late Love”, for which she won an award for her performance, and was soon cast for her first film – “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell”. While doing films, she continued appearing in Broadway performances as well, and her popularity was growing on television as well, playing parts in “Johnny Staccato”, “The Twilight Zone”, and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in an episode of “The Untouchables”. Other titles of early films she was a part of include “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?” and “Johnny Cool”. Her net worth certainly grew steadily.
Montgomery would earn a significant amount of popularity and net worth when she became part of the sitcom “Bewitched”. She played the star role of Samantha Stephens, and the show would become a huge success in ratings, airing from 1964 to 1972, with the final season aired the following year despite problems between Elizabeth and the director William Asher. During this time, she won numerous awards and also lent her voice for the series highly popular TV series “The Flintstones”.
Later in her career, she took on film parts that were vastly different from her character in “Bewitched”. Occasionally she would appear on Japanese television reprising the same type of character, but then she started to go for more dramatic and serious roles. Montgomery was nominated for her roles in films such as “A Case of Rape”, and “The Legend of Lizzie Borden “. She continued making these genres of films, and even had a villainous role in “Amos”. She did her last Broadway production in 1989 entitled “Love Letters” and one of her final projects was voicing for “Batman: The Animated Series”.
For her personal life, her first marriage was to Frederick Gallatin Cammann in 1954, but it lasted for less than a year, however, two years later she would marry actor Gig Young, but they divorced in 1963. but she then married William Asher in the same year. They had three children, but also divorced in 1973. Her final marriage was to actor Robert Foxworth in 1993, and they remained together until her death. In 1995, Elizabeth was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, of which she had already been displaying symptoms while working that year. The diagnosis was severe as there was no longer anything the doctors could do, so she went home and died just two months later. Her home was sold and it eventually became Wonder Lake State Park.
