Jeff Donnell
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.…
Filmography
Gibbsville
1976 · 10.0
Cowboy Blues
1946 · 10.0
Doughboys in Ireland
1943 · 10.0
Big Timber
1950 · 10.0
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956 · 10.0
Destination 60,000
1957 · 10.0
It's Great to Be Young
1946 · 9.0
Outcasts of the Trail
1949 · 9.0
3 Is a Family
1944 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
The Girl with Something Extra
1973 · 8.3
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956 · 8.0
Stars on Parade
1944 · 8.0
Bristle Face
1964 · 8.0
That Texas Jamboree
1946 · 8.0
The Addams Family
1964 · 8.0
Emergency!
1972 · 7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · 7.9
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · 7.8
Matt Helm
1975 · 7.8
Perry Mason
1957 · 7.7
In a Lonely Place
1950 · 7.6
Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · 7.6
The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · 7.6
Studio 57
1954 · 7.5
The First Time
1952 · 7.5
Stagecoach Kid
1949 · 7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · 7.2
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · 7.2
Adam-12
1968 · 7.1
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944 · 7.1
Daniel Boone
1964 · 7.0
Barnaby Jones
1973 · 7.0
Omnibus
1952 · 7.0
Police Story
1973 · 7.0
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1972 · 7.0
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972 · 7.0
Redwood Forest Trail
1950 · 7.0
Post Office Investigator
1949 · 7.0
Singing on the Trail
1946 · 7.0
A Gift of Terror
1973 · 7.0
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946 · 7.0
Song of the Prairie
1945 · 7.0
Dancing in Manhattan
1944 · 7.0
Rendezvous Hotel
1979 · 7.0
Murder by Natural Causes
1979 · 6.9
The Partridge Family
1970 · 6.8
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · 6.8
Paper Moon
1974 · 6.8
Because You're Mine
1952 · 6.8
My Sister Eileen
1942 · 6.8
Cannon
1971 · 6.7
Mister Ed
1961 · 6.7
Gidget
1965 · 6.7
Me and the Chimp
1972 · 6.7
A Night to Remember
1942 · 6.7
Massacre Canyon
1954 · 6.7
Over 21
1945 · 6.7
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · 6.6
The Iron Maiden
1963 · 6.6
Felony Squad
1966 · 6.5
Racket Squad
1951 · 6.5
The Blue Gardenia
1953 · 6.5
Mr. District Attorney
1947 · 6.5
My Man Godfrey
1957 · 6.5
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971 · 6.5
Medical Center
1969 · 6.4
The Phantom Thief
1946 · 6.4
The Unknown
1946 · 6.3
Special for Women
1960 · 6.3
Spider-Man
1977 · 6.3
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957 · 6.3
Thief of Damascus
1952 · 6.3
Love, American Style
1969 · 6.2
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942 · 6.2
A Thousand and One Nights
1945 · 6.1
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · 6.1
The Comic
1969 · 6.1
The Mothers-in-Law
1967 · 6.0
Here We Go Again
1973 · 6.0
Flight Nurse
1953 · 6.0
Hoedown
1950 · 6.0
The Power of the Whistler
1945 · 5.9
Nine Girls
1944 · 5.8
Three Guys Named Mike
1951 · 5.8
Skirts Ahoy!
1952 · 5.8
Carolina Blues
1944 · 5.8
Tars and Spars
1946 · 5.8
Dr. Kildare
1961 · 5.7
Roughshod
1949 · 5.7
Easy Living
1949 · 5.7
The F.B.I.
1965 · 5.6
She's a Soldier Too
1944 · 5.5
Night Editor
1946 · 5.5
There's Something About a Soldier
1943 · 5.4
Matinee Theater
1955 · 5.3
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950 · 5.1
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963 · 5.1
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961 · 5.1
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969 · 4.8
Cavalcade of America
1952 · 4.6
McNaughton's Daughter
1976 · 4.5
Eadie Was a Lady
1945 · 4.4
So This Is Love
1953 · 4.3
Force of Impulse
1961 · 4.2
Climax!
1954 · 3.8
Meet the O'Briens
1954 · 0.0