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
- A Gift of Terror as Mrs. Cummings
- The Girl with Something Extra
- Here We Go Again as Aunt Patti
1972
- Emergency! as Katie
- The Bob Newhart Show as Clara Hackler
- Stand Up and Be Counted as Ruth
- Me and the Chimp
1971
- Cannon
- Congratulations, It's a Boy! as Rose
- Love Hate Love as Mary Blunden
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
- The Iron Maiden as Miriam Fisher
- Gidget Goes to Rome as Mrs. Lawrence
1962
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Evelyn Driscoll
- Mister Ed as Martha Harper
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian as Dorothy Lawrence
- Force of Impulse as Louise Reese
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
- 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
- Massacre Canyon as Cora
1953
- Flight Nurse as Lt. Ann Phillips
- The Blue Gardenia as Sally Ellis
- So This Is Love as Henrietta Van Dyke
1952
- Omnibus as Helen
- The Ford Television Theatre as Doris
- Cavalcade of America as Ann Rutledge
- Skirts Ahoy! as Giff
- The First Time as Donna Gilbert
- Because You're Mine as Patty Ware
- Thief of Damascus as Sheherazade
1951
- Racket Squad
- Three Guys Named Mike as Alice Raymend
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Pug
1950
- Hoedown as Vera Wright
- In a Lonely Place as Sylvia Nicolai
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Gwen
- The Fuller Brush Girl as Jane Bixby
- Redwood Forest Trail as Julie Wescott
- Big Timber as Sally
1949
- Roughshod as Elaine Wyatt
- Stagecoach Kid as Jessie Arnold
- Easy Living as Penny McCarr
- Post Office Investigator as April Shaughnessy
- Outcasts of the Trail as Vinnie White
1947
- Mr. District Attorney as Miss Miller
1946
- Cowboy Blues as Susan Nelson
- The Unknown as Nina Arnold
- Singing on the Trail as Cindy Brown
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Judy Lane
- That Texas Jamboree as Jean Warren
- Tars and Spars as Peggy McDougal
- Night Editor as Martha Cochrane
- The Phantom Thief as Anne Parks Duncan
- It's Great to Be Young as Georgia Johnson
1945
- Over 21 as Jan Lupton
- A Thousand and One Nights as Harem Girl
- Song of the Prairie as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
- The Power of the Whistler as Frances 'Francie' Lane
- Eadie Was a Lady as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1944
- Carolina Blues as Charlotte Barton
- Nine Girls as "Butch" Hendricks
- 3 Is a Family as Hazel Whittaker
- Dancing in Manhattan as Julie Connors
- She's a Soldier Too as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
- Stars on Parade as Mary Brooks
1943
- Doughboys in Ireland as Molly Callahan
- There's Something About a Soldier as Jean Burton
1942
- A Night to Remember as Anne Carstairs
- My Sister Eileen as Helen Loomis
- The Boogie Man Will Get You as Winnie Slade