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Jeff Donnell (1921–1988)

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A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy's reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921. The younger of two daughters, her father (Howard) was a penologist and mother (Mildred) a schoolteacher. Raised in Maryland, she took piano and dance lessons while growing up... See full bio »

Born:

Jean Marie Donnell
in South Windham, Maine, USA

Died:

(age 66) in Hollywood, California, USA
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1980-1988 General Hospital (TV series)
Stella
– Episode dated 6 July 1981 (1981) … Stella (uncredited)
 
1979 Fantasy Island (TV series)
Mrs. Hoyt
– The Cheerleaders/Marooned (1979) … Mrs. Hoyt
 
1979 Portrait of a Stripper (TV movie)
Edith Sterling
 
1979 Rendezvous Hotel (TV movie)
Mrs. Williams
 
1979 Murder by Natural Causes (TV movie)
Mrs. Mathews
 
1978 The Bob Newhart Show (TV series)
Clara Hackler
– Freudian Ship (1978) … Clara Hackler
 
1977 The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series)
Aunt May Parker
– Pilot (1977) … Aunt May Parker
 
1977 The Feather and Father Gang (TV series)
Annie
– The Apology (1977) … Annie
 
1977 Chico and the Man (TV series)
Peggy
– Matchmaker, Matchmaker (1977) … Peggy
 
1976 McNaughton's Daughter (TV movie)
Juror
 
1976 Matt Helm (TV series)
Ethel
– Die Once, Die Twice (1976) … Ethel
 
1974-1975 Police Story (TV series)
Martha / Mrs. Attles
– Face for a Shadow (1975) … Mrs. Attles
– Fingerprint (1974) … Martha
 
1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV series)
Maura
– The Knightly Murders (1975) … Maura
 
1974 Paper Moon (TV series)
Mrs. Carson
– Green Goods (1974) … Mrs. Carson
 
1974 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV series)
Cleaning Woman
– Last Flight to Babylon (1974) … Cleaning Woman
 
1973 The Girl with Something Extra (TV series)
Betsy Burton
– Mind-ing Mama (1973) … Betsy Burton
 
1973 Here We Go Again (TV series)
Aunt Patti
– Class of '77 (1973) … Aunt Patti
 
1973 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (TV series)
Mrs. Cummings
– The Gift of Terror (1973) … Mrs. Cummings
 
1973 Cannon (TV series)
Mrs. Holt
– The Seventh Grave (1973) … Mrs. Holt
 
1973 Barnaby Jones (TV series)
Janet Gossett
– Sunday: Doomsday (1973) … Janet Gossett
 
1973 Adam-12 (TV series)
Mrs. James Nelson
– O'Brien's Stand (1973) … Mrs. James Nelson
 
1969-1972 The F.B.I. (TV series)
The rooming house manager
– Holiday with Terror (1972)
– Blood Tie (1969) … The rooming house manager
 
1972 Stand Up and Be Counted
Ruth
 
1972 Emergency! (TV series)
Katie
– Crash (1972) … Katie
 
1972 Me and the Chimp (TV series)
Grandma
– One Romantic Evening (1972) … Grandma
 
1971-1972 The Jimmy Stewart Show (TV series)
Agatha Dwiggins / Mrs. Dwiggins
– Price Is Right (1972) … Agatha Dwiggins
– Guest of Honor (1971) … Mrs. Dwiggins
 
1972 The Partridge Family (TV series)
Mrs. Monahan
– My Heart Belongs to a Two Car Garage (1972) … Mrs. Monahan
 
1971 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV series)
Nurse Klein
– The Convicts (1971) … Nurse Klein
 
1971 Love, American Style (TV series)
Mrs. Hutton (segment "Love and the Bashful Groom")
– Love and the Awakening/Love and the Bashful Groom/Love and the Four-Sided Triangle/Love and the Naked Stranger (1971) … Mrs. Hutton (segment "Love and the Bashful Groom")
 
1971 Congratulations, It's a Boy! (TV movie)
Rose
 
1968-1971 Julia (TV series)
Mrs. Bennett
– Anyone for Tenants? (1971) … Mrs. Bennett
– Kids Is a Four-Letter Word (1971) … Mrs. Bennett
– You Can't Beat Drums (1969) … Mrs. Bennett
– Paint Your Waggedorn (1968) … Mrs. Bennett
 
1971 Love Hate Love (TV movie)
Mary Blunden
 
1970 Medical Center (TV series)
Mrs. Hersey
– Witch Hunt (1970) … Mrs. Hersey
 
1970 Bracken's World (TV series)
Joan Elliot
– The Mary Tree (1970) … Joan Elliot
– Together Again, for the Last Time (1970) … Joan Elliot
 
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cornelia Clark Fort
 
1970 Nanny and the Professor (TV series)
Mrs. Winslow
– Nanny Will Do (1970) … Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
 
1969 The Comic
Nurse
 
1969 Daniel Boone (TV series)
Varna Montgomery
– A Tall Tale of Prater Beaseley (1969) … Varna Montgomery
 
1968 Felony Squad (TV series)
Mrs. Foster
– The Deadly Innocents (1968) … Mrs. Foster
 
1968 The Mothers-In-Law (TV series)
Elaine
– Herb's Little Helper (1968) … Elaine
 
1966 Gidget (TV series)
Hannah Marshall
– Take a Lesson (1966) … Hannah Marshall
 
1966 The Addams Family (TV series)
Eleanor Digby
– Morticia, the Decorator (1966) … Eleanor Digby
 
1966 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Evelyn Driscoll
– Some Tales for Halloween (1966) … Evelyn Driscoll
– A Few Hearts, a Few Flowers (1966) … Evelyn Driscoll
– Never So Happy (1966) … Evelyn Driscoll
– The Last to Believe in Miracles (1966) … Evelyn Driscoll
– The Atheist and the True Believer (1966) … Evelyn Driscoll
 
1962-1964 Perry Mason (TV series)
Rose Carol / Sylvia Dykes
– The Case of the Bullied Bowler (1964) … Rose Carol
– The Case of the Melancholy Marksman (1962) … Sylvia Dykes
 
1964 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series)
Mrs. Jarkey
– Bristle Face: Part 2 (1964) … Mrs. Jarkey
– Bristle Face: Part 1 (1964) … Mrs. Jarkey
 
1963 Gidget Goes to Rome
Mrs. Lawrence
 
1963 The Swinging Maiden
Miriam Fisher
 
1954-1962 The United States Steel Hour (TV series)
Eva Dulaney / Sadie Merrick / Virginia Purdy
– Farewell to Innocence (1962)
– Tangle of Truth (1961) … Eva Dulaney
– Game of Hearts (1960)
– Little Tin God (1959) … Sadie Merrick
– Goodbye... But It Doesn't Go Away (1958)
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1962 Mister Ed (TV series)
Martha Harper
– Ed, the Matchmaker (1962) … Martha Harper
 
1961 Force of Impulse
Louise Reese
 
1961 Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Dorothy Lawrence
 
1960 Play of the Week (TV series)
Lucy
– Uncle Harry (1960) … Lucy
 
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV series)
Millie Moon
– A Thief or Two (1960) … Millie Moon
 
1960 The Ann Sothern Show (TV series)
Helen
– The Girls (1960) … Helen
 
1960 Overland Trail (TV series)
Jennifer Dean
– Most Dangerous Gentleman (1960) … Jennifer Dean
 
1959 The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (TV series)
– The Chemistry Set (1959)
 
1954-1958 The George Gobel Show (TV series)
Alice
– Episode #4.7 (1957) … Alice
– Episode #2.29 (1956)
– Episode #2.21 (1956) … Alice
– Episode #2.18 (1956) … Alice
– Episode #2.17 (1956) … Alice
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1957 My Man Godfrey
Molly
 
1957 Sweet Smell of Success
Sally
 
1957 Destination 60,000
Ruth Buckley
 
1957 The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Mary Wheller
 
1956 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
Sylvia
– Sincerely, Willis Wade (1956) … Sylvia
 
1956 Studio 57 (TV series)
– Swing Your Partner, Hector (1956)
 
1956 Ethel Barrymore Theater (TV series)
– Mimsel's Man (1956)
– The Peabody's (1956)
 
1956 Matinee Theatre (TV series)
– The Old Payola (1956)
 
1956 Magnificent Roughnecks
Julie
 
1955 Climax! (TV series)
Kay Matheson
– No Stone Unturned (1955) … Kay Matheson
 
1955 Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (TV series)
– The Antique Shop (1955)
 
1953-1954 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
– Captain in Command (1954)
– Girl of My Dreams (1953)
 
1954 Massacre Canyon
Cora
 
1954 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
Doris
– The Taming of the Shrewd (1954) … Doris
 
1954 Waterfront (TV series)
Marilyn Carr
– Troubled Waters (1954) … Marilyn Carr
 
1953 Omnibus (TV series)
Elizabeth
– The Horn Blows at Midnight (1953) … Elizabeth
 
1953 The Courtship of Miles Standish (TV movie)
 
1953 Flight Nurse
Lt. Ann Phillips
 
1953 So This Is Love
Henrietta Van Dyke
 
1953 The Blue Gardenia
Sally Ellis
 
1953 Cavalcade of America (TV series)
Ann Rutledge
– New Salem Story (1953) … Ann Rutledge
 
1952 Racket Squad (TV series)
– The Label Switchers (1952)
 
1952 Because You're Mine
Patty Ware
 
1952 Skirts Ahoy!
CPO Giff
 
1952 Thief of Damascus
Sheherazade
 
1952 Rebound (TV series)
Annie
– It Wouldn't Be Fair … Annie
 
1952 The First Time
Donna Gilbert
 
1951 The Bigelow Theatre (TV series)
– Make Your Bed (1951)
 
1951 Three Guys Named Mike
Alice Raymend
 
1950 Walk Softly, Stranger
Gwen
 
1950 Redwood Forest Trail
Julie Westcott
 
1950 The Fuller Brush Girl
Jane Bixby
 
1950 Big Timber
Sally
 
1950 Hoedown
Vera Wright
 
1950 In a Lonely Place
Sylvia Nicolai
 
1949 Easy Living
Penny McCarr
 
1949 Post Office Investigator
April Shaughnessy
 
1949 Outcasts of the Trail
Vinnie White
 
1949 Stagecoach Kid
Jessie Arnold
 
1949 Roughshod
Elaine Wyatt
 
1947 Screen Snapshots: My Pal, Ringeye (short)
Jeff Donnell
 
1947 Mr. District Attorney
Miss Miller
 
1946 It's Great to Be Young
Georgia Johnson
 
1946 Singing on the Trail
Cindy Brown
 
1946 Cowboy Blues
Susan Nelson
 
1946 The Unknown
Nina Arnold
 
1946 That Texas Jamboree
Jean Warren
 
1946 The Phantom Thief
Anne Parks Duncan
 
1946 Night Editor
Martha Cochrane
 
1946 Throw a Saddle on a Star
Judy Lane
 
1946 Tars and Spars
Penny McDougal
 
1945 Song of the Prairie
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
 
1945 Over 21
Jan Lupton
 
1945 A Thousand and One Nights
Harem Girl (uncredited)
 
1945 The Power of the Whistler
Francie
 
1945 Eadie Was a Lady
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
 
1944 Carolina Blues
Charlotte Barton
 
1944 Dancing in Manhattan
Julie Connors
 
1944 Three Is a Family
Hazel Whittaker
 
1944 Mr. Winkle Goes to War
USO Hostess (uncredited)
 
1944 Sensations of 1945
Young Girl (uncredited)
 
1944 She's a Soldier Too
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
 
1944 Stars on Parade
Mary Brooks
 
1944 Once Upon a Time
Girl from Brooklyn (scenes deleted)
 
1944 Nine Girls
'Butch' Hendricks
 
1943/I There's Something About a Soldier
Jean Burton
 
1943 Doughboys in Ireland
Molly Callahan
 
1943 What's Buzzin', Cousin?
Billie (uncredited)
 
1942 A Night to Remember
Anne Stafford Carstairs
 
1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You
Winnie Slade (as Miss Jeff Donnell)
 
1942 My Sister Eileen
Helen Loomis (as Miss Jeff Donnell)
 
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1946 Throw a Saddle on a Star (performer: "Bonnie Bonnie Braes of Wyoming" / "The Strawberry Blonde on the Strawberry Roan")
 
Show ShowSelf (6 titles)
1965 Girl Talk (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 26 August 1965 (1965) … Herself
 
1957 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #1.10 (1957) … Herself
 
1957 The George Gobel Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #3.24 (1957) … Herself
 
1955 Shower of Stars (TV series)
Herself - Actress
– High Pitch (1955) … Herself - Actress
 
1951 The Alan Young Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 13 April 1951 (1951) … Herself
 
1946 Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party (documentary short)
Herself
 

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In 1961, she co-starred an unsold pilot for a comedy/adventure series called "The Daring Deeds of Johnny Dru". The plot revolved around daydreams of a Walter Mitty-like protagonist who, in this case, was a child. See more »

Alternate Names:

Jean Marie Donnell | Miss Jeff Donnell
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Personal Quote:

I wasn't the pretty type and I certainly wasn't glamorous, so, I always felt fortunate to be acting. My first concern was for my family, so I never developed a driving ambition. I consider myself a very lucky person. See more »

Trivia:

Had two children by her (much older) first husband Bill Anderson: Michael Phineas (nicknamed Mickey Finn), born in 1942, and Sarah Jane (Sally), born 1947. See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer