Acting · Windham, Maine, USA · Born July 10, 1921
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.
MoviePortrait of a Stripper
1979
as Edith Sterling
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
as Mrs. Williams
MovieMurder by Natural Causes
1979
as Mrs. Mathews
MovieSpider-Man
1977
as Aunt May Parker
TVGibbsville
1976
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
as Mrs. Wilson
TVMatt Helm
1975
as Ethel
TVPaper Moon
1974
as Mrs. Carson
TVThe Girl with Something Extra
1973
MovieA Gift of Terror
1973
as Mrs. Cummings
TVPolice Story
1973
TVBarnaby Jones
1973
as Janet Gossett
TVHere We Go Again
1973
as Aunt Patti
TVThe ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1972
as Mrs. Cummings
TVThe Bob Newhart Show
1972
as Clara Hackler
MovieStand Up and Be Counted
1972
as Ruth
TVEmergency!
1972
as Katie
TVMe and the Chimp
1972
MovieCongratulations, It's a Boy!
1971
as Rose
TVCannon
1971
MovieLove Hate Love
1971
as Mary Blunden
TVThe Partridge Family
1970
as Mrs. Monahan
MovieTora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Cornelia
MovieThe Comic
1969
as Nurse
TVLove, American Style
1969
as Mrs. Hutton
TVMedical Center
1969
as Mrs. Hersey
TVMarcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Cleaning Woman
TVThe Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Nurse Klein
TVAdam-12
1968
as Mrs. James Nelson
TVThe Mothers-in-Law
1967
as Elaine
TVFelony Squad
1966
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Rooming House Manager
TVGidget
1965
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as Varna Montgomery
TVThe Addams Family
1964
as Eleanor Digby
MovieBristle Face
1964
as Mrs. Jarkey
MovieGidget Goes to Rome
1963
as Mrs. Lawrence
MovieThe Iron Maiden
1963
as Miriam Fisher
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
MovieForce of Impulse
1961
as Louise Reese
TVDr. Kildare
1961
as Evelyn Driscoll
MovieGidget Goes Hawaiian
1961
as Dorothy Lawrence
TVMister Ed
1961
as Martha Harper
TVSpecial for Women
1960
as The Career Woman
TVThe DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Millie Moon
MovieMy Man Godfrey
1957
as Molly
TVPerry Mason
1957
as Sylvia Dykes
MovieSweet Smell of Success
1957
as Sally
Destination 60,000
1957
as Ruth Buckley
MovieThe Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
as Mary Wheller
MovieSincerely, Willis Wade
1956
as Sylvia
TVThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
MovieMagnificent Roughnecks
1956
as Julie
TVMatinee Theater
1955
TVThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Mrs. Jarkey
TVClimax!
1954
as Kay Matheson
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
TVStudio 57
1954
MovieMeet the O'Briens
1954
as Nancy
MovieMassacre Canyon
1954
as Cora
MovieFlight Nurse
1953
as Lt. Ann Phillips
MovieSo This Is Love
1953
as Henrietta Van Dyke
MovieThe Blue Gardenia
1953
as Sally Ellis
TVOmnibus
1952
as Helen
TVThe Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Doris
MovieBecause You're Mine
1952
as Patty Ware
TVCavalcade of America
1952
as Ann Rutledge
MovieSkirts Ahoy!
1952
as Giff
MovieThief of Damascus
1952
as Sheherazade
MovieThe First Time
1952
as Donna Gilbert
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Pug
TVRacket Squad
1951
MovieThree Guys Named Mike
1951
as Alice Raymend
MovieWalk Softly, Stranger
1950
as Gwen
MovieRedwood Forest Trail
1950
as Julie Wescott
MovieThe Fuller Brush Girl
1950
as Jane Bixby
MovieBig Timber
1950
as Sally
MovieHoedown
1950
as Vera Wright
MovieIn a Lonely Place
1950
as Sylvia Nicolai
MovieEasy Living
1949
as Penny McCarr
MoviePost Office Investigator
1949
as April Shaughnessy
MovieOutcasts of the Trail
1949
as Vinnie White
MovieStagecoach Kid
1949
as Jessie Arnold
MovieRoughshod
1949
as Elaine Wyatt
MovieMr. District Attorney
1947
as Miss Miller
It's Great to Be Young
1946
as Georgia Johnson
MovieSinging on the Trail
1946
as Cindy Brown
MovieCowboy Blues
1946
as Susan Nelson
MovieThe Unknown
1946
as Nina Arnold
MovieThat Texas Jamboree
1946
as Jean Warren
MovieThe Phantom Thief
1946
as Anne Parks Duncan
MovieNight Editor
1946
as Martha Cochrane
MovieThrow a Saddle on a Star
1946
as Judy Lane
MovieTars and Spars
1946
as Peggy McDougal
MovieSong of the Prairie
1945
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
MovieOver 21
1945
as Jan Lupton
MovieA Thousand and One Nights
1945
as Harem Girl
MovieThe Power of the Whistler
1945
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
MovieEadie Was a Lady
1945
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
MovieCarolina Blues
1944
as Charlotte Barton
MovieDancing in Manhattan
1944
as Julie Connors
Movie3 Is a Family
1944
as Hazel Whittaker
MovieMr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
MovieShe's a Soldier Too
1944
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
MovieStars on Parade
1944
as Mary Brooks
MovieNine Girls
1944
as "Butch" Hendricks
MovieThere's Something About a Soldier
1943
as Jean Burton
MovieDoughboys in Ireland
1943
as Molly Callahan
MovieA Night to Remember
1942
as Anne Carstairs
MovieThe Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
as Winnie Slade
MovieMy Sister Eileen
1942
as Helen Loomis
