Jeff Donnell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-07-10 (67 years old)

Deathday

1988-04-11

Place of Birth

Windham, Maine, USA

Jeff Donnell

Biography

Jeff Donnell was an American film and television actress. Born Jean Marie Donnell, she grew up in South Windham, Maine. As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama. She was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures in 1942 and made her film debut in My Sister Eileen. She later had roles in some RKO films. She was not a major star, but she did have a lengthy film and television career in various...

Acting

1942

1953

The Blue Gardenia

as Sally Ellis

1961

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

as Dorothy Lawrence

1942

My Sister Eileen

as Helen Loomis

1946

Night Editor

as Martha Cochrane

1945

The Power of the Whistler

as Frances 'Francie' Lane

1950

In a Lonely Place

as Sylvia Nicolai

1946

The Unknown

as Nina Arnold

1942

A Night to Remember

as Anne Carstairs

1950

1946

The Phantom Thief

as Anne Parks Duncan

1945

Over 21

as Jan Lupton

1949

Easy Living

as Penny McCarr

1963

The Iron Maiden

as Miriam Fisher

1949

Roughshod

as Elaine Wyatt

1979

Rendezvous Hotel

as Mrs. Williams

1951

Three Guys Named Mike

as Alice Raymend

1947

Mr. District Attorney

as Miss Miller

1949

Post Office Investigator

as April Shaughnessy

1945

Song of the Prairie

as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens

1952

Thief of Damascus

as Sheherazade

1944

Carolina Blues

as Charlotte Barton

1952

The First Time

as Donna Gilbert

1953

So This Is Love

as Henrietta Van Dyke

1953

Flight Nurse

as Lt. Ann Phillips

1957

1954

1950

Redwood Forest Trail

as Julie Wescott

1946

That Texas Jamboree

as Jean Warren

1950

Hoedown

as Vera Wright

1979

Portrait of a Stripper

as Edith Sterling

1946

Singing on the Trail

as Cindy Brown

1946

1957

1957

Destination 60,000

as Ruth Buckley

1944

3 Is a Family

as Hazel Whittaker

1944

Dancing in Manhattan

as Julie Connors

1944

She's a Soldier Too

as Mary Fleming (uncredited)

1943

Doughboys in Ireland

as Molly Callahan

1949

Stagecoach Kid

as Jessie Arnold

1952

1944

Stars on Parade

as Mary Brooks

1946

Cowboy Blues

as Susan Nelson

1949

Outcasts of the Trail

as Vinnie White

1945

Eadie Was a Lady

as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker

1961

Force of Impulse

as Louise Reese

1944

Nine Girls

as "Butch" Hendricks

1946

Tars and Spars

as Peggy McDougal

1963

Gidget Goes to Rome

as Mrs. Lawrence

1950

Big Timber

as Sally

1964

Bristle Face

as Mrs. Jarkey

1979

1970

1977

Spider-Man

as Aunt May Parker

1945

1946

It's Great to Be Young

as Georgia Johnson

1969

The Comic

as Nurse

1971

Love Hate Love

as Mary Blunden

1952

Because You're Mine

as Patty Ware

1973

A Gift of Terror

as Mrs. Cummings

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