Ann Gillis
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1927-02-12 (91 years old)
Deathday
2018-01-31
Place of Birth
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Also known As
Anne Gillis
Alma Mabel Conner
Ann Gillis
Biography
Ann Gillis was born Alma Mabel Conner on February 12, 1927, in Little Rock, Arkansas. At age seven, she appeared in her first film, Men in White (1934), as an extra. During the next two years, she had uncredited appearances in six more films until she received her first major role in King of Hockey (1936). Warner Brothers Studios gave significant screen time to Gillis in this movie, in hopes that she would become another Shirley Temple. Although (like all child stars of the 1930s) she never achieved Temple's level of fame, for the next several years Gillis starred in many films, almost always playing a spoiled, bratty character. She ha...
Acting
1968
as Poole's Mother
1942
as Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
1938
as Becky Thatcher
1937
as Winnie Mae
1946
as Paula Rainey
1944
as Gloria Winthrop
1941
as Joey aka Abigail
1946
as Sue
1942
as Jane Goodwin
1936
as Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
1936
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
1936
as Lou Ann Stevens
1947
as Susan Peabody LaRue
1938
as Fluerette de Cava
1940
as Valerie Malette
1936
as Peggy O'Rourke
1942
as Sylvia
1943
as Penny Winters
1941
as Brenda Lee
1939
as Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
1940
as Nan
1939
as Letty Lou
1937
as Peggy (uncredited)
1940
as Emily Schuyler
1936
as Little Alice (uncredited)
1940
as Nancy Grey
1943
as Ann Gillis
1938
as Annie
1944
as Judy (as Anne Gillis)
1937
as Rosalia as a Child
1944
as Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)
1945
as Angela Pidgeon
1941
as Nancy Dana
1946
as Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
1942
as Frankie Taylor
1944
as Paula Rainey
1946
as Nora O'Leary
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