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
- Portrait of a Stripper as Edith Sterling
- Murder by Natural Causes as Mrs. Mathews
- 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
- Medical Center as Mrs. Hersey
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Cleaning Woman
- 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
- Mister Ed as Martha Harper
- Dr. Kildare as Evelyn Driscoll
- 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
- My Man Godfrey as Molly
- The Guns of Fort Petticoat as Mary Wheller
- Destination 60,000 as Ruth Buckley
1956
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Sincerely, Willis Wade as Sylvia
- Magnificent Roughnecks as Julie
1955
1954
- Climax! as Kay Matheson
- Studio 57
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mrs. Jarkey
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- 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
- Skirts Ahoy! as Giff
- Because You're Mine as Patty Ware
- The First Time as Donna Gilbert
- Thief of Damascus as Sheherazade
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
- Redwood Forest Trail as Julie Wescott
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Gwen
- Big Timber as Sally
- Hoedown as Vera Wright
1949
- Easy Living as Penny McCarr
- Outcasts of the Trail as Vinnie White
- Roughshod as Elaine Wyatt
- Post Office Investigator as April Shaughnessy
- Stagecoach Kid as Jessie Arnold
1947
- Mr. District Attorney as Miss Miller
1946
- The Unknown as Nina Arnold
- Night Editor as Martha Cochrane
- It's Great to Be Young as Georgia Johnson
- The Phantom Thief as Anne Parks Duncan
- Singing on the Trail as Cindy Brown
- Tars and Spars as Peggy McDougal
- That Texas Jamboree as Jean Warren
- Cowboy Blues as Susan Nelson
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Judy Lane
1945
- A Thousand and One Nights as Harem Girl
- Over 21 as Jan Lupton
- The Power of the Whistler as Frances 'Francie' Lane
- Eadie Was a Lady as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
- Song of the Prairie as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1944
- Nine Girls as "Butch" Hendricks
- 3 Is a Family as Hazel Whittaker
- She's a Soldier Too as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
- Stars on Parade as Mary Brooks
- Mr. Winkle Goes to War
- Dancing in Manhattan as Julie Connors
- Carolina Blues as Charlotte Barton
1943
- There's Something About a Soldier as Jean Burton
- Doughboys in Ireland as Molly Callahan
1942
- The Boogie Man Will Get You as Winnie Slade
- My Sister Eileen as Helen Loomis
- A Night to Remember as Anne Carstairs