Jeff Donnell
Acting
🎂 1921-07-10
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.
Cast credits(113)
Sylvia Dykes
1957
Rose Carol
1957
Self
1962
Katie
1972
Mrs. James Nelson
1968
Kay Matheson
1954
Varna Montgomery
1964
1955
1971
Rooming House Manager
1965
Mrs. Kraft
1965
Eleanor Digby
1964
Evelyn Driscoll
1961
Helen
1952
Martha Harper
1961
Mrs. Hersey
1969
Janet Gossett
1973
Self
1956
Mrs. Hutton
1969
Mrs. Gellar
1969
1966
Cleaning Woman
1969
1954
Doris
1952
1973
Clara Hackler
1972
Millie Moon
1959
1951
Mrs. Monahan
1970
Ann Rutledge
1952
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
1970
Ethel
1975
Cornelia
1970
1965
Self
1954
Nurse Klein
1969
Mrs. Jarkey
1954
Aunt May Parker
1977
Sylvia Nicolai
1950
Sally
1957
Elaine
1967
Mrs. Carson
1974
Dorothy Lawrence
1961
1976
1951
Sally Ellis
1953
Mary Blunden
1971
Rose
1971
Vinnie White
1949
Mrs. Cummings
1973
Mrs. Williams
1979
Aunt Patti
1973
Pug
1951
Marlene
1951
Sally
1950
Henrietta Van Dyke
1953
Ruth
1972
Mrs. Wilson
1976
Julie Wescott
1950
Nurse
1969
1973
Giff
1952
Mrs. Lawrence
1963
Mrs. Jarkey
1964
Sheherazade
1952
Penny McCarr
1949
Molly
1957
Mary Wheller
1957
Miriam Fisher
1963
Lt. Ann Phillips
1953
Frances 'Francie' Lane
1945
Jane Bixby
1950
Jan Lupton
1945
Louise Reese
1961
April Shaughnessy
1949
Winnie Slade
1942
Gwen
1950
Edith Sterling
1979
Miss Miller
1947
Peggy McDougal
1946
Helen Loomis
1942
"Butch" Hendricks
1944
Charlotte Barton
1944
Cindy Brown
1946
Elaine Wyatt
1949
Anne Parks Duncan
1946
Jean Burton
1943
Harem Girl
1945
Jessie Arnold
1949
Julie Connors
1944
Donna Gilbert
1952
Hazel Whittaker
1944
Alice Raymend
1951
Patty Ware
1952
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1945
Georgia Johnson
1946
Nina Arnold
1946
1972
Julie
1956
Anne Carstairs
1942
Mrs. Mathews
1979
Cora
1954
Vera Wright
1950
Martha Cochrane
1946
Judy Lane
1946
Susan Nelson
1946
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
1944
Mary Brooks
1944
1954
Ruth Buckley
1957
Jean Warren
1946
Molly Callahan
1943
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1945