Jeff Donnell

Actor Jul 10 (died age 66) Windham, Maine, USA 1942–1979 (37 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

In a Lonely Place

Sylvia Nicolai

Film

Sweet Smell of Success

Sally

Film

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Cornelia

Film

Spider-Man

Aunt May Parker

Film

The Blue Gardenia

Sally Ellis

Film

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Mary Wheller

Film

My Sister Eileen

Helen Loomis

Film

My Man Godfrey

Molly

Filmography

Acting (112)

Movies (68)

Portrait of a Stripper

1979

as Edith Sterling

2.0

Murder by Natural Causes

1979

as Mrs. Mathews

6.9

Rendezvous Hotel

1979

as Mrs. Williams

Spider-Man

1977

as Aunt May Parker

6.3

A Gift of Terror

1973

as Mrs. Cummings

Stand Up and Be Counted

as Ruth

Love Hate Love

as Mary Blunden

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

as Rose

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Cornelia

The Comic

as Nurse

Bristle Face

as Mrs. Jarkey

The Iron Maiden

as Miriam Fisher

Gidget Goes to Rome

as Mrs. Lawrence

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

as Dorothy Lawrence

Force of Impulse

as Louise Reese

Sweet Smell of Success

as Sally

My Man Godfrey

as Molly

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

1957

as Mary Wheller

6.3

Destination 60,000

1957

as Ruth Buckley

Magnificent Roughnecks

1956

as Julie

Sincerely, Willis Wade

1956

as Sylvia

Massacre Canyon

as Cora

Meet the O'Briens

So This Is Love

as Henrietta Van Dyke

The Blue Gardenia

as Sally Ellis

Flight Nurse

as Lt. Ann Phillips

Skirts Ahoy!

as Giff

Because You're Mine

as Patty Ware

Thief of Damascus

as Sheherazade

The First Time

as Donna Gilbert

Three Guys Named Mike

as Alice Raymend

In a Lonely Place

as Sylvia Nicolai

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950

as Gwen

5.0

The Fuller Brush Girl

1950

as Jane Bixby

6.0

Redwood Forest Trail

1950

as Julie Wescott

Hoedown

1950

as Vera Wright

5.0

Big Timber

1950

as Sally

Outcasts of the Trail

1949

as Vinnie White

Roughshod

as Elaine Wyatt

Easy Living

as Penny McCarr

Post Office Investigator

as April Shaughnessy

Stagecoach Kid

as Jessie Arnold

Mr. District Attorney

1947

as Miss Miller

6.0

Singing on the Trail

1946

as Cindy Brown

Throw a Saddle on a Star

1946

as Judy Lane

It's Great to Be Young

1946

as Georgia Johnson

The Unknown

1946

as Nina Arnold

6.0

Cowboy Blues

1946

as Susan Nelson

That Texas Jamboree

1946

as Jean Warren

Night Editor

as Martha Cochrane

Tars and Spars

as Peggy McDougal

The Phantom Thief

as Anne Parks Duncan

A Thousand and One Nights

1945

as Harem Girl

5.8

The Power of the Whistler

1945

as Frances 'Francie' Lane

5.8

Song of the Prairie

1945

as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens

Over 21

1945

as Jan Lupton

5.2

Eadie Was a Lady

1945

as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker

3.3

3 Is a Family

1944

as Hazel Whittaker

Dancing in Manhattan

as Julie Connors

Nine Girls

as "Butch" Hendricks

Carolina Blues

as Charlotte Barton

She's a Soldier Too

as Mary Fleming (uncredited)

3.0

Stars on Parade

1944

as Mary Brooks

Doughboys in Ireland

1943

as Molly Callahan

There's Something About a Soldier

as Jean Burton

My Sister Eileen

as Helen Loomis

A Night to Remember

as Anne Carstairs

The Boogie Man Will Get You

1942

as Winnie Slade

6.1

Television (44)

Gibbsville

1976

McNaughton's Daughter

as Mrs. Wilson

Matt Helm

as Ethel

Paper Moon

as Mrs. Carson

Barnaby Jones

as Janet Gossett

Police Story

The Girl with Something Extra

Here We Go Again

as Aunt Patti

Emergency!

as Katie

The Bob Newhart Show

as Clara Hackler

Me and the Chimp

The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

1972

as Mrs. Cummings

Cannon

The Partridge Family

as Mrs. Monahan

Nanny and the Professor

1970

as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)

Love, American Style

as Mrs. Hutton

Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Cleaning Woman

Medical Center

as Mrs. Hersey

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

as Nurse Klein

Adam-12

as Mrs. James Nelson

The Mothers-in-Law

as Elaine

Felony Squad

The F.B.I.

as Rooming House Manager

Gidget

Daniel Boone

as Varna Montgomery

The Addams Family

as Eleanor Digby

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Dr. Kildare

as Evelyn Driscoll

Mister Ed

as Martha Harper

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Millie Moon

Perry Mason

as Sylvia Dykes

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

as Self

Matinee Theater

Climax!

as Kay Matheson

Studio 57

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Mrs. Jarkey

7.8

The George Gobel Show

1954

as Self

7.3

The George Gobel Show

as Self

Omnibus

as Helen

The Ford Television Theatre

as Doris

Cavalcade of America

as Ann Rutledge

Racket Squad

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Pug

7.2