Cathy O'Donnell
Birthday
1923/07/06
Day of death
1970/04/11 (46 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Siluria, Alabama, USA
Also know as
Ann Steely
Biography
Cathy O'Donnell (July 6, 1923 – April 11, 1970) was an American actress, best known for her many roles in film-noir movies. While under contract with Samuel Goldwyn, O'Donnell made her debut in an uncredited role as a nightclub extra in Wonder Man (1945). Her first major role in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), playing Wilma Cameron, the high-school sweetheart of double amputatee Homer Parrish, played by real-life World War II veteran/amputee Harold Russell. She was loaned out to RKO for on...Read more
Acting
(1946) The Best Years of Our Lives
as Wilma Cameron
(1959) Ben-Hur
as Tirzah
(1951) Detective Story
as Susan Carmichael
(1948) The Amazing Mr. X
as Janet Burke
(1957) The Story of Mankind
as Early Christian Woman
(1947) Bury Me Dead
as Rusty
(1949) They Live by Night
as Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
(1955) The Man from Laramie
as Barbara Waggoman
(1950) Side Street
as Ellen Norson
(1955) Mad at the World
as Anne Bennett
(1958) My World Dies Screaming
as Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
(1954) Eight O'Clock Walk
as Jill Manning
(1957) The Deerslayer
as Judith Hutter
(1951) Never Trust a Gambler
as Virginia Merrill
(1950) The Miniver Story
as Judy Miniver
(1952) The Woman's Angle
as Nina van Rhyne
(1954) Loves of Three Queens
as Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
(1957) Perry Mason
as Norma Brooks
(1954) Climax!
as Mona Herbert
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1959) The Rebel
as Prudence Gant
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Angel
(1959) The Detectives
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jennie Parsons
(1960) Tate
as ---
(1949) Lights Out
as ---
(1959) The Rebel
as Felicity Bowman