Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-07-10 (67 years old)
Deathday
1988-04-11
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Also known As
Jean Marie Donnell
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...
1957
as Sally
1942
as Winnie Slade
1953
as Sally Ellis
1961
as Dorothy Lawrence
1942
as Helen Loomis
1946
as Martha Cochrane
1945
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
1950
as Sylvia Nicolai
1946
as Nina Arnold
1942
as Anne Carstairs
1950
as Jane Bixby
1946
as Anne Parks Duncan
1950
as Gwen
1945
as Jan Lupton
1949
as Penny McCarr
1963
as Miriam Fisher
1949
as Elaine Wyatt
1979
as Mrs. Williams
1951
as Alice Raymend
1947
as Miss Miller
1949
as April Shaughnessy
1945
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1952
as Sheherazade
1944
as Charlotte Barton
1952
as Donna Gilbert
1953
as Henrietta Van Dyke
1943
as Jean Burton
1953
as Lt. Ann Phillips
1957
as Molly
1954
as Cora
1950
as Julie Wescott
1946
as Jean Warren
1950
as Vera Wright
1979
as Edith Sterling
1946
as Cindy Brown
1946
as Judy Lane
1957
as Mary Wheller
1957
as Ruth Buckley
1944
as Hazel Whittaker
1944
as Julie Connors
1944
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
1943
as Molly Callahan
1949
as Jessie Arnold
1952
as Giff
1944
as Mary Brooks
1946
as Susan Nelson
1949
as Vinnie White
1945
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1961
as Louise Reese
1944
as "Butch" Hendricks
1972
as Ruth
1946
as Peggy McDougal
1963
as Mrs. Lawrence
1950
as Sally
1964
as Mrs. Jarkey
1979
as Mrs. Mathews
1970
as Cornelia
1977
as Aunt May Parker
1945
as Harem Girl
1946
as Georgia Johnson
1969
as Nurse
1956
as Julie
1971
as Mary Blunden
1952
as Patty Ware
1971
as Rose
1973
as Mrs. Cummings
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