JEFF DONNELL

Jeff Donnell
Jeff Donnell
Gender: Female
Known for: Acting
Birthday: July 10, 1921
Deathday: April 11, 1988
Place of Birth: Windham, Maine, USA

Biography

Jeff Donnell was an American film and television actress. Born Jean Marie Donnell, 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.

Filmography

Starring

Mrs. Mathews
Edith Sterling
Mrs. Williams
Aunt May Parker
1975·
Matt Helm
Ethel
Mrs. Carson
Janet Gossett
Aunt Patti
Mrs. Cummings
Clara Hackler
Katie
1971·
Cannon
Mary Blunden
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Mrs. Monahan
Cornelia
Mrs. Gellar, Mrs. Hutton
Mrs. Hersey
Cleaning Woman
1969·
The Comic
Nurse
1968·
Adam-12
Mrs. James Nelson
Elaine
Mrs. Kraft, Rooming House Manager
1965·
Gidget
Eleanor Digby
Varna Montgomery
Mrs. Jarkey
Mrs. Lawrence
Miriam Fisher
Evelyn Driscoll
1961·
Mister Ed
Martha Harper
Louise Reese
Dorothy Lawrence
Rose Carol, Sylvia Dykes
Ruth Buckley
Mary Wheller
Molly
1954·
Studio 57
1954·
Climax!
Kay Matheson
Cora
Lt. Ann Phillips
Henrietta Van Dyke
Sally Ellis
Ann Rutledge
1952·
Omnibus
Helen
Patty Ware
Giff
Donna Gilbert
Sheherazade
Marlene, Pug
Alice Raymend
Sally
1950·
Hoedown
Vera Wright
Julie Wescott
Jane Bixby
Sylvia Nicolai
Vinnie White
Jessie Arnold
April Shaughnessy
1949·
Roughshod
Elaine Wyatt
Penny McCarr
Miss Miller
Georgia Johnson
Peggy McDougal
Susan Nelson
Cindy Brown
Jean Warren
Anne Parks Duncan
Nina Arnold
Martha Cochrane
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1945·
Over 21
Jan Lupton
Frances 'Francie' Lane
"Butch" Hendricks
Mary Brooks
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Julie Connors
Hazel Whittaker
Charlotte Barton
Molly Callahan
Anne Carstairs
Helen Loomis
Winnie Slade