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Jeff Donnell
Windham, Maine, USA
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 "…
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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.
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1979
Portrait of a Stripper
Movie Edith Sterling
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1979
Rendezvous Hotel
Movie Mrs. Williams
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1979
Murder by Natural Causes
Movie Mrs. Mathews
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1977
Spider-Man
Movie Aunt May Parker
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1976
Gibbsville
TV show
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1976
McNaughton's Daughter
TV show Mrs. Wilson
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1975
Matt Helm
TV show Ethel
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1974
Paper Moon
TV show Mrs. Carson
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1973
The Girl with Something Extra
TV show
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1973
A Gift of Terror
Movie Mrs. Cummings
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1973
Police Story
TV show
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1973
Barnaby Jones
TV show Janet Gossett
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1973
Here We Go Again
TV show Aunt Patti
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1972
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
TV show Mrs. Cummings
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1972
The Bob Newhart Show
TV show Clara Hackler
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1972
Stand Up and Be Counted
Movie Ruth
More credits
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1972
Emergency!
TV show Katie
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1972
Me and the Chimp
TV show
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1971
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Movie Rose
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1971
Cannon
TV show
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1971
Love Hate Love
Movie Mary Blunden
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1970
The Partridge Family
TV show Mrs. Monahan
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1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie Cornelia
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1969
The Comic
Movie Nurse
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1969
Love, American Style
TV show Mrs. Hutton
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1969
Medical Center
TV show Mrs. Hersey
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1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV show Cleaning Woman
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1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV show Nurse Klein
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1968
Adam-12
TV show Mrs. James Nelson
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1967
The Mothers-in-Law
TV show Elaine
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1966
Felony Squad
TV show
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Rooming House Manager
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1965
Gidget
TV show
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Varna Montgomery
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1964
The Addams Family
TV show Eleanor Digby
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1964
Bristle Face
Movie Mrs. Jarkey
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1963
Gidget Goes to Rome
Movie Mrs. Lawrence
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1963
The Iron Maiden
Movie Miriam Fisher
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1961
Force of Impulse
Movie Louise Reese
