Ann Gillis
Birthday
1927/02/12
Day of death
2018/01/31 (91 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Also know as
Anne Gillis, Alma Mabel Conner
Biography
Ann Gillis was born Alma Mabel Conner on February 12, 1927, in Little Rock, Arkansas. At age seven, she appeared in her first film, Men in White (1934), as an extra. During the next two years, she had uncredited appearances in six more films until she received her first major role in King of Hockey (1936). Warner Brothers Studios gave significant screen time to Gillis in this movie, in hopes that she would become another Shirley Temple. Although (like all child stars of the 1930s) she never...Read more
Acting
(1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey
as Poole's Mother
(1942) Bambi
as Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
(1938) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
as Becky Thatcher
(1937) Off to the Races
as Winnie Mae
(1946) Janie Gets Married
as Paula Rainey
(1944) In Society
as Gloria Winthrop
(1941) Mr. Dynamite
as Joey aka Abigail
(1946) Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
as Sue
(1942) Meet the Stewarts
as Jane Goodwin
(1936) The Great Ziegfeld
as Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
(1936) Under Your Spell
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
(1936) The Singing Cowboy
as Lou Ann Stevens
(1947) Big Town After Dark
as Susan Peabody LaRue
(1938) Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Fluerette de Cava
(1940) My Love Came Back
as Valerie Malette
(1936) King of Hockey
as Peggy O'Rourke
(1942) 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as Sylvia
(1943) Man from Music Mountain
as Penny Winters
(1941) Glamour Boy
as Brenda Lee
(1939) Beau Geste
as Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
(1940) Little Men
as Nan
(1939) The Under-Pup
as Letty Lou
(1937) You Can't Buy Luck
as Peggy (uncredited)
(1936) Postal Inspector
as Little Alice (uncredited)
(1940) All This, and Heaven Too
as Emily Schuyler
(1940) Edison, the Man
as Nancy Grey
(1943) Stage Door Canteen
as Ann Gillis
(1938) Little Orphan Annie
as Annie
(1944) A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
as Judy (as Anne Gillis)
(1937) The Californian
as Rosalia as a Child
(1944) Since You Went Away
as Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)
(1945) The Cheaters
as Angela Pidgeon
(1941) Nice Girl?
as Nancy Dana
(1946) Gay Blades
as Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
(1942) Tough as They Come
as Frankie Taylor
(1944) Janie
as Paula Rainey
(1946) The Time of Their Lives
as Nora O'Leary
(1948) Studio One
as ---
(1962) The Saint
as Beryl Carrington
(1962) Man of the World
as ---
(1962) The Saint
as Wilma