Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell

Birthday: 1921-07-10

Deathday: 1988-04-11

Place of birth: Windham, Maine, USA

Also known as: Jean Marie Donnell

imdb_id: nm0232655

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Played in movies:

Sweet Smell of Success

Score: 7.6

In a Lonely Place

Score: 7.6

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Score: 7.1

Stand Up and Be Counted

Score: 7.0

Murder by Natural Causes

Score: 6.9

Because You're Mine

Score: 6.7

My Sister Eileen

Score: 6.7

A Night to Remember

Score: 6.6

The Blue Gardenia

Score: 6.6

The First Time

Score: 6.5

Mr. District Attorney

Score: 6.5

The Iron Maiden

Score: 6.4

Spider-Man

Score: 6.3

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Score: 6.3

The Boogie Man Will Get You

Score: 6.3

My Man Godfrey

Score: 6.3

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

Score: 6.0

Stagecoach Kid

Score: 6.0

Dancing in Manhattan

Score: 6.0

Post Office Investigator

Score: 6.0

The Fuller Brush Girl

Score: 6.0

The Unknown

Score: 6.0

The Comic

Score: 5.9

Easy Living

Score: 5.9

Love Hate Love

Score: 5.8

The Power of the Whistler

Score: 5.8

A Thousand and One Nights

Score: 5.8

Thief of Damascus

Score: 5.8

Three Guys Named Mike

Score: 5.7

Night Editor

Score: 5.6

Flight Nurse

Score: 5.5

Nine Girls

Score: 5.3

Carolina Blues

Score: 5.3

Roughshod

Score: 5.3

The Phantom Thief

Score: 5.3

Over 21

Score: 5.3

Skirts Ahoy!

Score: 5.0

Massacre Canyon

Score: 5.0

Walk Softly, Stranger

Score: 5.0

Gidget Goes to Rome

Score: 4.8

There's Something About a Soldier

Score: 4.8

Tars and Spars

Score: 4.7

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Score: 4.6

So This Is Love

Score: 4.5

Eadie Was a Lady

Score: 4.0

She's a Soldier Too

Score: 3.0

Force of Impulse

Score: 2.5

Portrait of a Stripper

Score: 2.5

Meet the O'Briens

Score: 0.0

A Gift of Terror

Score: 0.0

Magnificent Roughnecks

Score: 0.0

It's Great to Be Young

Score: 0.0

Bristle Face

Score: 0.0

Big Timber

Score: 0.0

Outcasts of the Trail

Score: 0.0

Cowboy Blues

Score: 0.0

Stars on Parade

Score: 0.0

Doughboys in Ireland

Score: 0.0

3 Is a Family

Score: 0.0

Destination 60,000

Score: 0.0

Throw a Saddle on a Star

Score: 0.0

Singing on the Trail

Score: 0.0

Hoedown

Score: 0.0

That Texas Jamboree

Score: 0.0

Redwood Forest Trail

Score: 0.0

Song of the Prairie

Score: 0.0

Rendezvous Hotel

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Addams Family

Score: 8.0

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Emergency!

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Bob Newhart Show

Score: 7.5

The Girl with Something Extra

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Matt Helm

Score: 7.4

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

The George Gobel Show

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Adam-12

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Mister Ed

Score: 6.8

The Partridge Family

Score: 6.7

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

Cannon

Score: 6.5

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

Gidget

Score: 6.4

Paper Moon

Score: 6.3

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Score: 6.3

Medical Center

Score: 6.1

Love, American Style

Score: 6.1

Love, American Style

Score: 6.1

Nanny and the Professor

Score: 6.0

Racket Squad

Score: 6.0

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Score: 6.0

Omnibus

Score: 6.0

The Mothers-in-Law

Score: 5.8

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Here We Go Again

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

Me and the Chimp

Score: 5.0

McNaughton's Daughter

Score: 4.5

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Score: 4.0

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Studio 57

Score: 0.0

Gibbsville

Score: 0.0