
Birthday
1921/07/10
Day of death
1988/04/11 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Also know as
Jean Marie Donnell
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...Read more

(1957) Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally

(1942) The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade

(1953) The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis

(1961) Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence

(1942) My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis

(1946) Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane

(1945) The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane

(1950) In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai

(1946) The Unknown
as Nina Arnold

(1942) A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs

(1950) The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby

(1946) The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan

(1950) Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen

(1945) Over 21
as Jan Lupton

(1949) Easy Living
as Penny McCarr

(1963) The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher

(1949) Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
(1979) Rendezvous Hotel
as Mrs. Williams

(1951) Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend

(1947) Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller

(1949) Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy

(1945) Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens

(1952) Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade

(1944) Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton

(1952) The First Time
as Donna Gilbert

(1953) So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke

(1943) There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton

(1953) Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips

(1957) My Man Godfrey
as Molly

(1954) Massacre Canyon
as Cora

(1950) Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott

(1946) That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren

(1950) Hoedown
as Vera Wright

(1979) Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling

(1946) Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown

(1946) Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane

(1957) The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
(1957) Destination 60,000
as Ruth Buckley

(1944) 3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker

(1944) Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors

(1944) She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)

(1943) Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan

(1949) Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold

(1952) Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff

(1944) Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks

(1946) Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson

(1949) Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White

(1945) Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker

(1961) Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese

(1944) Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks

(1972) Stand Up and Be Counted
as Ruth

(1946) Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal

(1963) Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence

(1950) Big Timber
as Sally

(1964) Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey

(1979) Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews

(1970) Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia

(1977) Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker

(1945) A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
(1946) It's Great to Be Young
as Georgia Johnson

(1969) The Comic
as Nurse

(1956) Magnificent Roughnecks
as Julie

(1971) Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden

(1952) Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware

(1971) Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose

(1973) A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
(1954) Meet the O'Briens
as ---

(1956) Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Sylvia

(1961) Mister Ed
as Martha Harper

(1965) Gidget
as ---

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Rooming House Manager

(1952) Omnibus
as Helen

(1957) Perry Mason
as Sylvia Dykes

(1971) Cannon
as ---

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---

(1966) Felony Squad
as ---

(1972) Me and the Chimp
as ---

(1973) The Girl with Something Extra
as ---

(1973) Police Story
as ---

(1964) Daniel Boone
as Varna Montgomery

(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Pug

(1954) Climax!
as Kay Matheson

(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---

(1956) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self

(1964) The Addams Family
as Eleanor Digby

(1951) Racket Squad
as ---

(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Ann Rutledge

(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Evelyn Driscoll
(1954) The George Gobel Show
as Self

(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Millie Moon

(1974) Paper Moon
as Mrs. Carson

(1975) Matt Helm
as Ethel

(1969) Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Cleaning Woman

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Mrs. Kraft

(1968) Adam-12
as Mrs. James Nelson

(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Marlene

(1957) Perry Mason
as Rose Carol

(1973) Here We Go Again
as Aunt Patti

(1972) Emergency!
as Katie

(1969) Medical Center
as Mrs. Hersey

(1967) The Mothers-in-Law
as Elaine

(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self

(1973) Barnaby Jones
as Janet Gossett

(1976) Gibbsville
as ---

(1972) The Bob Newhart Show
as Clara Hackler

(1969) The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Nurse Klein

(1970) The Partridge Family
as Mrs. Monahan

(1969) Love, American Style
as Mrs. Hutton

(1969) Love, American Style
as Mrs. Gellar

(1954) Studio 57
as ---

(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mrs. Jarkey

(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Doris

(1976) McNaughton's Daughter
as Mrs. Wilson