Mercedes McCambridge

Actor 1948–2025 (77 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Highest Rated

The Friday the 13th Murders

2025 · as Self - John Markle's Mother / Actress (archive footage)

8.7

Bewitched

1964 · as Carlotta

7.9

Touch of Evil

1958 · as Gang Leader (uncredited)

7.8

Known For

Film

The Exorcist

Demon (voice)

Film

Touch of Evil

Gang Leader (uncredited)

Film

Giant

Luz Benedict

Film

Johnny Guitar

Emma Small

Film

Suddenly, Last Summer

Grace Holly

Film

All the King's Men

Sadie Burke

Film

The Other Side of the Wind

Maggie Noonan

Film

Cimarron

Mrs. Sarah Wyatt

Filmography

Acting (68)

Movies (28)

The Other Side of the Wind

2018

as Maggie Noonan

6.7

Family Dog

1988

as Miss Lestrange

Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures

1983

as Narrator (voice)

Echoes

1982

as Lillian Gerben

3.7

The Concorde... Airport '79

as Nelli

Thieves

as Street Lady

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

as Grandmother

The Exorcist

as Demon (voice)

The Girls of Huntington House

1973

as Doris McKenzie

6.0

The President's Plane Is Missing

as Hester Madigan

Sixteen

as Mother

Killer by Night

as Sister Sarah

Two for the Money

as Mrs. Castle

Marquis de Sade: Justine

as Madame Dusbois

99 Women

as Thelma Diaz

The Counterfeit Killer

1968

as Frances

Run Home Slow

as Nell Hagen

Angel Baby

as Sarah Strand

Cimarron

as Mrs. Sarah Wyatt

Suddenly, Last Summer

1959

as Grace Holly

7.3

Touch of Evil

1958

as Gang Leader (uncredited)

A Farewell to Arms

as Mrs. Van Campen

Giant

as Luz Benedict

Johnny Guitar

as Emma Small

The Scarf

as Connie Carter

Lightning Strikes Twice

as Liza McStringer

Inside Straight

as Ada Stritch

All the King's Men

as Sadie Burke

Television (40)

The Friday the 13th Murders

2025

as Self - John Markle's Mother / Actress (archive footage)

8.7

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011

as Self

7.7

Amazing Stories

1985

as Miss Lestrange (voice)

Cagney & Lacey

Magnum, P.I.

as Agatha Kimball

Hagen

The Sacketts

as Ma Sackett

Flying High

Charlie's Angels

as Norma

Khan!

Medical Center

The Name of the Game

ABC Stage 67

Lost in Space

as Sybilla

Bewitched

as Carlotta

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Dakotas

Dr. Kildare

as Sister Teresa

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

The Defenders

as Mildred Cochraine

Bonanza

as Deborah Banning

Rawhide

as Mrs. Miller

Riverboat

as Jessie Quinn

Wagon Train

as Emily Rossiter

Panic!

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Wire Service

as Kate Wells

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Nominee

Gunsmoke

as Rubilee Mather

Climax!

as Eliza

Summer Playhouse

The Oscars

as Self

Letter to Loretta

as Cissy Brackett

The Red Skelton Show

as Clara Appleby

Tales of Tomorrow

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

What's My Line?

as Self

Lux Video Theatre

as Marie

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Studio One