Jeff Donnell
Known for Acting · 112 credits
- Born
- 1921-07-10
- Died
- 1988-04-11
- Place of birth
- Windham, Maine, USA
- Also known as
- Jean Marie Donnell
Biography
Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. 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 supporting roles, including the role of Gidget's mother, "Dorothy Lawrence", opposite Carl Reiner in the 1961 movie Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
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Known For
TV Shows (43)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Perry Mason
1957
as Sylvia Dykes / Rose Carol
Matinee Theater
1955
Emergency!
1972
as Katie
Love, American Style
1969
as Mrs. Hutton / Mrs. Gellar
Climax!
1954
as Kay Matheson
Adam-12
1968
as Mrs. James Nelson
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Evelyn Driscoll
Daniel Boone
1964
as Varna Montgomery
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Cleaning Woman
The F.B.I.
1965
as Rooming House Manager / Mrs. Kraft
Cannon
1971
Omnibus
1952
as Helen
The Partridge Family
1970
as Mrs. Monahan
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
as Clara Hackler
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Janet Gossett
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Mister Ed
1961
as Martha Harper
Medical Center
1969
as Mrs. Hersey
The Addams Family
1964
as Eleanor Digby
Studio 57
1954
Police Story
1973
Felony Squad
1966
Racket Squad
1951
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Millie Moon
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Mrs. Jarkey
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Doris
Cavalcade of America
1952
as Ann Rutledge
The Mothers-in-Law
1967
as Elaine
Matt Helm
1975
as Ethel
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Nurse Klein
Paper Moon
1974
as Mrs. Carson
Gidget
1965
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Gibbsville
1976
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Pug / Marlene
Me and the Chimp
1972
Here We Go Again
1973
as Aunt Patti
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
as Mrs. Wilson
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1972
as Mrs. Cummings
Special for Women
1960
as The Career Woman
Movies (69)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Cornelia
In a Lonely Place
1950
as Sylvia Nicolai
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
as Sally
The Unknown
1946
as Nina Arnold
Spider-Man
1977
as Aunt May Parker
Nine Girls
1944
as "Butch" Hendricks
My Man Godfrey
1957
as Molly
Mr. District Attorney
1947
as Miss Miller
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
as Mary Wheller
Force of Impulse
1961
as Louise Reese
The Iron Maiden
1963
as Miriam Fisher
The Blue Gardenia
1953
as Sally Ellis
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
as Jane Bixby
Post Office Investigator
1949
as April Shaughnessy
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961
as Dorothy Lawrence
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
as Harem Girl
Love Hate Love
1971
as Mary Blunden
Thief of Damascus
1952
as Sheherazade
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
Because You're Mine
1952
as Patty Ware
It's Great to Be Young
1946
as Georgia Johnson
Meet the O'Briens
1954
as Nancy
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956
as Sylvia
Easy Living
1949
as Penny McCarr
Outcasts of the Trail
1949
as Vinnie White
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
as Julie
Night Editor
1946
as Martha Cochrane
My Sister Eileen
1942
as Helen Loomis
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
as Gwen
Massacre Canyon
1954
as Cora
Redwood Forest Trail
1950
as Julie Wescott
So This Is Love
1953
as Henrietta Van Dyke
Three Guys Named Mike
1951
as Alice Raymend
Roughshod
1949
as Elaine Wyatt
Skirts Ahoy!
1952
as Giff
The Comic
1969
as Nurse
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972
as Ruth
Over 21
1945
as Jan Lupton
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963
as Mrs. Lawrence
Murder by Natural Causes
1979
as Mrs. Mathews
A Gift of Terror
1973
as Mrs. Cummings
The Power of the Whistler
1945
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
The Phantom Thief
1946
as Anne Parks Duncan
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
as Winnie Slade
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
as Edith Sterling
3 Is a Family
1944
as Hazel Whittaker
Bristle Face
1964
as Mrs. Jarkey
Flight Nurse
1953
as Lt. Ann Phillips
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
as Jean Burton
A Night to Remember
1942
as Anne Carstairs
Tars and Spars
1946
as Peggy McDougal
The First Time
1952
as Donna Gilbert
Doughboys in Ireland
1943
as Molly Callahan
She's a Soldier Too
1944
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Singing on the Trail
1946
as Cindy Brown
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971
as Rose
Carolina Blues
1944
as Charlotte Barton
Song of the Prairie
1945
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
That Texas Jamboree
1946
as Jean Warren
Big Timber
1950
as Sally
Dancing in Manhattan
1944
as Julie Connors
Eadie Was a Lady
1945
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
as Mrs. Williams
Stars on Parade
1944
as Mary Brooks
Stagecoach Kid
1949
as Jessie Arnold
Hoedown
1950
as Vera Wright
Cowboy Blues
1946
as Susan Nelson
Destination 60,000
1957
as Ruth Buckley
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946
as Judy Lane
About Jeff Donnell
Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. 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 lat… With 112 credits spanning from 1942 to 1979, Jeff Donnell has appeared in 69 films and 43 TV shows.
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- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — as Cornelia
- In a Lonely Place (1950) — as Sylvia Nicolai
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957) — as Sally
- The Unknown (1946) — as Nina Arnold
- Spider-Man (1977) — as Aunt May Parker
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