Jeff Donnell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 10, 1921
- Died
- Apr 11, 1988 (aged 66)
- Place of birth
- Windham, Maine, USA
- Credits
- 112
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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Known for
Filmography
Portrait of a Stripper
1979Movie
Edith Sterling
Rendezvous Hotel
1979Movie
Mrs. Williams
Murder by Natural Causes
1979Movie
Mrs. Mathews
Spider-Man
1977Movie
Aunt May Parker
Gibbsville
1976TV
McNaughton's Daughter
1976TV
Mrs. Wilson
Matt Helm
1975TV
Ethel
Paper Moon
1974TV
Mrs. Carson
The Girl with Something Extra
1973TV
A Gift of Terror
1973Movie
Mrs. Cummings
Police Story
1973TV
Barnaby Jones
1973TV
Janet Gossett
Here We Go Again
1973TV
Aunt Patti
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1972TV
Mrs. Cummings
The Bob Newhart Show
1972TV
Clara Hackler
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972Movie
Ruth
Emergency!
1972TV
Katie
Me and the Chimp
1972TV
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971Movie
Rose
Cannon
1971TV
Love Hate Love
1971Movie
Mary Blunden
The Partridge Family
1970TV
Mrs. Monahan
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970Movie
Cornelia
The Comic
1969Movie
Nurse
Love, American Style
1969TV
Mrs. Hutton, Mrs. Gellar
Medical Center
1969TV
Mrs. Hersey
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969TV
Cleaning Woman
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969TV
Nurse Klein
Adam-12
1968TV
Mrs. James Nelson
The Mothers-in-Law
1967TV
Elaine
Felony Squad
1966TV
The F.B.I.
1965TV
Rooming House Manager, Mrs. Kraft
Gidget
1965TV
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Varna Montgomery
The Addams Family
1964TV
Eleanor Digby
Bristle Face
1964Movie
Mrs. Jarkey
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963Movie
Mrs. Lawrence
The Iron Maiden
1963Movie
Miriam Fisher
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Force of Impulse
1961Movie
Louise Reese
Dr. Kildare
1961TV
Evelyn Driscoll
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961Movie
Dorothy Lawrence
Mister Ed
1961TV
Martha Harper
Special for Women
1960TV
The Career Woman
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959TV
Millie Moon
My Man Godfrey
1957Movie
Molly
Perry Mason
1957TV
Sylvia Dykes, Rose Carol
Sweet Smell of Success
1957Movie
Sally
Destination 60,000
1957Movie
Ruth Buckley
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957Movie
Mary Wheller
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956Movie
Sylvia
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956TV
Self
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956Movie
Julie
Matinee Theater
1955TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954TV
Mrs. Jarkey
Climax!
1954TV
Kay Matheson
The George Gobel Show
1954TV
Self
Studio 57
1954TV
Meet the O'Briens
1954Movie
Nancy
Massacre Canyon
1954Movie
Cora
Flight Nurse
1953Movie
Lt. Ann Phillips
So This Is Love
1953Movie
Henrietta Van Dyke
The Blue Gardenia
1953Movie
Sally Ellis
Omnibus
1952TV
Helen
The Ford Television Theatre
1952TV
Doris
Because You're Mine
1952Movie
Patty Ware
Cavalcade of America
1952TV
Ann Rutledge
Skirts Ahoy!
1952Movie
Giff
Thief of Damascus
1952Movie
Sheherazade
The First Time
1952Movie
Donna Gilbert
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
Pug, Marlene
Racket Squad
1951TV
Three Guys Named Mike
1951Movie
Alice Raymend
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950Movie
Gwen
Redwood Forest Trail
1950Movie
Julie Wescott
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950Movie
Jane Bixby
Big Timber
1950Movie
Sally
Hoedown
1950Movie
Vera Wright
In a Lonely Place
1950Movie
Sylvia Nicolai
Easy Living
1949Movie
Penny McCarr
Post Office Investigator
1949Movie
April Shaughnessy
Outcasts of the Trail
1949Movie
Vinnie White
Stagecoach Kid
1949Movie
Jessie Arnold
Roughshod
1949Movie
Elaine Wyatt
Mr. District Attorney
1947Movie
Miss Miller
It's Great to Be Young
1946Movie
Georgia Johnson
Singing on the Trail
1946Movie
Cindy Brown
Cowboy Blues
1946Movie
Susan Nelson
The Unknown
1946Movie
Nina Arnold
That Texas Jamboree
1946Movie
Jean Warren
The Phantom Thief
1946Movie
Anne Parks Duncan
Night Editor
1946Movie
Martha Cochrane
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946Movie
Judy Lane
Tars and Spars
1946Movie
Peggy McDougal
Song of the Prairie
1945Movie
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Over 21
1945Movie
Jan Lupton
A Thousand and One Nights
1945Movie
Harem Girl
The Power of the Whistler
1945Movie
Frances 'Francie' Lane
Eadie Was a Lady
1945Movie
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Carolina Blues
1944Movie
Charlotte Barton
Dancing in Manhattan
1944Movie
Julie Connors
3 Is a Family
1944Movie
Hazel Whittaker
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944Movie
She's a Soldier Too
1944Movie
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Stars on Parade
1944Movie
Mary Brooks
Nine Girls
1944Movie
"Butch" Hendricks
There's Something About a Soldier
1943Movie
Jean Burton
Doughboys in Ireland
1943Movie
Molly Callahan
A Night to Remember
1942Movie
Anne Carstairs
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942Movie
Winnie Slade
My Sister Eileen
1942Movie
Helen Loomis