Jeff Donnell

Known for ActingBorn 1921-07-10Died 1988-04-11Windham, Maine, USA

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

Movies & web series

Gibbsville

Destination 60,000

Magnificent Roughnecks

Big Timber

Cowboy Blues

Doughboys in Ireland

Outcasts of the Trail

It's Great to Be Young

3 Is a Family

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Girl with Something Extra

Emergency!

Bristle Face

The Addams Family

Matt Helm

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Studio 57

That Texas Jamboree

Stars on Parade

The Wonderful World of Disney

Perry Mason

The George Gobel Show

The Ford Television Theatre

The Bob Newhart Show

Sweet Smell of Success

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

In a Lonely Place

The First Time

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Stagecoach Kid

Rendezvous Hotel

Adam-12

A Gift of Terror

Police Story

Stand Up and Be Counted

The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Barnaby Jones

Murder by Natural Causes

Daniel Boone

The Partridge Family

Redwood Forest Trail

Post Office Investigator

Singing on the Trail

Throw a Saddle on a Star

Song of the Prairie

Dancing in Manhattan

Gidget