Jeff Donnell
Acting
- Born:
- 1921-07-10
- Died:
- 1988-04-11
- Place of birth:
- Windham, Maine, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Portrait of a Stripper
Rendezvous Hotel
Murder by Natural Causes
Spider-Man
Gibbsville
McNaughton's Daughter
Matt Helm
Paper Moon
The Girl with Something Extra
A Gift of Terror
Police Story
Barnaby Jones
Here We Go Again
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
The Bob Newhart Show
Stand Up and Be Counted
Emergency!
Me and the Chimp
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Cannon
Love Hate Love
The Partridge Family
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Comic
Love, American Style
Medical Center
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Adam-12
The Mothers-in-Law
Felony Squad
The F.B.I.
Gidget
Daniel Boone
The Addams Family
Bristle Face
Gidget Goes to Rome
The Iron Maiden
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Force of Impulse
Dr. Kildare
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Mister Ed
Special for Women
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
My Man Godfrey
Perry Mason
Sweet Smell of Success
Destination 60,000
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Sincerely, Willis Wade
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Magnificent Roughnecks
Matinee Theater
The Wonderful World of Disney
Climax!
The George Gobel Show
Studio 57
Meet the O'Briens
Massacre Canyon
Flight Nurse
So This Is Love
The Blue Gardenia
Omnibus
The Ford Television Theatre
Because You're Mine
Cavalcade of America
Skirts Ahoy!
Thief of Damascus
The First Time
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Racket Squad
Three Guys Named Mike
Walk Softly, Stranger
Redwood Forest Trail
The Fuller Brush Girl
Big Timber
Hoedown
In a Lonely Place
Easy Living
Post Office Investigator
Outcasts of the Trail
Stagecoach Kid
Roughshod
Mr. District Attorney
It's Great to Be Young
Singing on the Trail
Cowboy Blues
The Unknown
That Texas Jamboree
The Phantom Thief
Night Editor
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Tars and Spars
Song of the Prairie
Over 21
A Thousand and One Nights
The Power of the Whistler
Eadie Was a Lady
Carolina Blues
Dancing in Manhattan
3 Is a Family
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
She's a Soldier Too
Stars on Parade
Nine Girls
There's Something About a Soldier
Doughboys in Ireland
A Night to Remember
The Boogie Man Will Get You
My Sister Eileen