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