# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-corby
# Generated: 2026-08-20T21:49:38.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-corby"
name: "Francis Corby"
slug: "francis-corby"
description: "Ellen Hansen Corby was an American actress and screenwriter. She performed in over 200 films and television series from the 1930s to the 1990s. She played the role of Esther \"Grandma\" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948)."
tagline: "American director and cinematographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Edgar_Bergen_Ellen_Corby_The_Homecoming_Waltons_1974_%28cropped%29.JPG/330px-Edgar_Bergen_Ellen_Corby_The_Homecoming_Waltons_1974_%28cropped%29.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1893-06-23"
deathDate: "1960-08-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.51
  momentum:             8.518518518518519
  historical:           2.2018
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  71
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179290/"
    handle:    "nm0179290"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Corby"
    title: "Francis Corby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117349655"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131409"
    title: "Francis Corby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations