Doris Day
Born: 1922-04-03 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died: 2019-05-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 - May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer, and an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Her entertainment career began in the 1940s as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey". In 1948, she appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she appeared in 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, she was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).
Filmography
2025
- Chaos: The Manson Murders as Self - Actress & Mother of Terry Melcher (archive footage)
2023
- Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed as Self (archive footage)
- Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar as Self (voice)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical as Self (archive)
2007
- Doris Day: Virgin Territory as Self
2006
- Legends as Various Roles (archive footage)
2004
2000
- The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood Musicals of the 40's as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Doris Day: It's Magic as Self
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1991
- Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey as Self
1990
- Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
1988
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- Doris Day Today as Self
1971
- The Pet Set as Self
- The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special as Self
1968
- The Doris Day Show as Doris Martin
- The Ballad of Josie as Josie
- Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? as Margaret Garrison
- With Six You Get Eggroll as Abby McClure
- Rowan & Martin at the Movies as Self (archive footage)
1967
- Caprice as Patricia Foster
- Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966
- The Glass Bottom Boat as Jennifer Nelson
- Every Girl's Dream as Self
- NASA as herself
- Catalina Island as Self
1965
- Do Not Disturb as Janet Harper
1964
- Send Me No Flowers as Judy Kimball
1963
- Move Over, Darling as Ellen Wagstaff Arden
- The Thrill of It All as Beverly Boyer
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- That Touch of Mink as Cathy Timberlake
- Billy Rose's Jumbo as Kitty Wonder
1961
- Lover Come Back as Carol Templeton
1960
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Kate Mackay
- Midnight Lace as Kit Preston
1959
- Pillow Talk as Jan Morrow
- It Happened to Jane as Jane Osgood
1958
- Teacher's Pet as Erica Stone
- The Tunnel of Love as Isolde Poole
1957
- The Pajama Game as Katherine 'Babe' Williams
1956
- The Man Who Knew Too Much as Jo McKenna
- Julie as Julie Benton
1955
- Love Me or Leave Me as Ruth Etting
1954
- Young at Heart as Laurie Tuttle
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- Lucky Me as Candy Williams
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Calamity Jane as Calamity Jane
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon as Marjorie Winfield
- So You Want a Television Set as Doris Day (uncredited)
1952
- The Winning Team as Aimee Alexander
- April in Paris as Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on the Ball as Self
1951
- I'll See You in My Dreams as Grace LeBoy Kahn
- Storm Warning as Lucy Rice
- Starlift as Doris Day
- On Moonlight Bay as Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield
- Lullaby of Broadway as Melinda Howard
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Tea for Two as Nanette Carter
- Young Man with a Horn as Jo Jordan
- The West Point Story as Jan Wilson
1949
- It's a Great Feeling as Judy Adams
- My Dream Is Yours as Martha Gibson
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Romance on the High Seas as Miss Georgia Garrett
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1941
- My Lost Horizon as Self - Vocalist
- Is It Love or Is It Conscription? as Self - Vocalist
- Once Over, Lightly as Self, Singer