Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 10, 1921
Died
Apr 11, 1988
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Credits
112 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Portrait of a Stripper
Edith Sterling
Rendezvous Hotel
Mrs. Williams
Murder by Natural Causes
Mrs. Mathews
Spider-Man
Aunt May Parker
Gibbsville
McNaughton's Daughter
Mrs. Wilson
Matt Helm
Ethel
Paper Moon
Mrs. Carson
The Girl with Something Extra
A Gift of Terror
Mrs. Cummings
Police Story
Barnaby Jones
Janet Gossett
Here We Go Again
Aunt Patti
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
Mrs. Cummings
The Bob Newhart Show
Clara Hackler
Stand Up and Be Counted
Ruth
Emergency!
Katie
Me and the Chimp
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Rose
Cannon
Love Hate Love
Mary Blunden
The Partridge Family
Mrs. Monahan
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cornelia
The Comic
Nurse
Love, American Style
Mrs. Hutton
Medical Center
Mrs. Hersey
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Cleaning Woman
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Nurse Klein
Adam-12
Mrs. James Nelson
The Mothers-in-Law
Elaine
Felony Squad
The F.B.I.
Rooming House Manager
Gidget
Daniel Boone
Varna Montgomery
The Addams Family
Eleanor Digby
Bristle Face
Mrs. Jarkey
Gidget Goes to Rome
Mrs. Lawrence
The Iron Maiden
Miriam Fisher
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Force of Impulse
Louise Reese
Dr. Kildare
Evelyn Driscoll
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Dorothy Lawrence
Mister Ed
Martha Harper
Special for Women
The Career Woman
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Millie Moon
My Man Godfrey
Molly
Perry Mason
Sylvia Dykes
Sweet Smell of Success
Sally
Destination 60,000
Ruth Buckley
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Mary Wheller