Actor
· Acting
Jeff Donnell
Born 1921-07-10
Died 1988-04-11
📍 Windham, Maine, USA
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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Filmography 111
Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling
1979
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews
1979
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker
1977
Gibbsville
1976
Matt Helm
as Ethel
1975
Paper Moon
as Mrs. Carson
1974
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
1973
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
as Janet Gossett
1973
Here We Go Again
as Aunt Patti
1973
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
as Mrs. Cummings
1972
The Bob Newhart Show
as Clara Hackler
1972
Stand Up and Be Counted
as Ruth
1972
Emergency!
as Katie
1972
Me and the Chimp
1972
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose
1971
Cannon
1971
Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden
1971
The Partridge Family
as Mrs. Monahan
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
1970
The Comic
as Nurse
1969
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Hutton
1969
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Gellar
1969
Medical Center
as Mrs. Hersey
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Cleaning Woman
1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Nurse Klein
1969
Adam-12
as Mrs. James Nelson
1968
The Mothers-in-Law
as Elaine
1967
Felony Squad
1966
The F.B.I.
as Rooming House Manager
1965
The F.B.I.
as Mrs. Kraft
1965
Gidget
1965
Daniel Boone
as Varna Montgomery
1964
The Addams Family
as Eleanor Digby
1964
Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey
1964
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
1963
The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese
1961
Dr. Kildare
as Evelyn Driscoll
1961
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
1961
Mister Ed
as Martha Harper
1961
Special for Women
as The Career Woman
1960
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Millie Moon
1959
My Man Godfrey
as Molly
1957
Perry Mason
as Sylvia Dykes
1957
Perry Mason
as Rose Carol
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
1957
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Sylvia
1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
Magnificent Roughnecks
as Julie
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mrs. Jarkey
1954
Climax!
as Kay Matheson
1954
Studio 57
1954
Meet the O'Briens
as Nancy
1954
Massacre Canyon
as Cora
1954
Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips
1953
So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke
1953
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
1953
Omnibus
as Helen
1952
The Ford Television Theatre
as Doris
1952
Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware
1952
Cavalcade of America
as Ann Rutledge
1952
Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff
1952
Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade
1952
The First Time
as Donna Gilbert
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Pug
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Marlene
1951
Racket Squad
1951
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
1951
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen
1950
Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott
1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby
1950
Big Timber
as Sally
1950
Hoedown
as Vera Wright
1950
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
1950
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
1949
Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy
1949
Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White
1949
Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold
1949
Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
1949
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller
1947
Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown
1946
Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson
1946
The Unknown
as Nina Arnold
1946
That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren
1946
The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan
1946
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
1946
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane
1946
Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal
1946
Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1945
Over 21
as Jan Lupton
1945
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
1945
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
1945
Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1945
Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton
1944
Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors
1944
3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
1944
Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks
1944
Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks
1944
There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton
1943
Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan
1943
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs
1942
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade
1942
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis
1942