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  1. Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress and educator. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz .

  2. Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory , which developed on-board flight software for NASA 's Apollo program .

  3. May 9, 2024 · Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936, Paoli, Indiana, U.S.) is an American computer scientist who was one of the first computer software programmers; she created the term software engineer to describe her work. She helped write the computer code for the command and lunar modules used on the Apollo missions to the Moon in the late 1960s and ...

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  4. Margaret Hamilton was an American actress who played the iconic role of The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939). She also appeared in other films, TV shows and stage plays, and taught acting to Jim Backus and Thurston Howell III.

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  5. Margaret Hamilton. Actress: The Wizard of Oz. Margaret Hamilton was born December 9, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jennie (Adams) and Walter Hamilton. She later attended Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and practiced acting doing children's theater while a Junior League of Cleveland member. Margaret had already built her resume with several performances in film before she came to ...

    • December 9, 1902
    • May 16, 1985
  6. Nov 15, 2019 · Learn about the life and career of Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the iconic green witch in The Wizard of Oz. Discover how she balanced acting with teaching, motherhood, and animal rights, and how she dealt with the legacy of her role.

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  8. May 4, 2022 · Margaret Hamilton and her stunt double, who played The Wicked Witch of the West, were literally burned by the production. 'I'll get you, my pretty' Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .

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