Cathy O'Donnell
Actor/Actriz
17
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9
Series
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 one of her most memorable films, They Live by Night (1949) starring with Farley Granger, widely considered a classic of the noir genre and on the Guardian's list of the top ten noir films. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray. The two actors later re-teamed for another movie, Side Street (1950).
Later O'Donnell starred in The Miniver Story (also 1950), as Judy Miniver and also had a supporting role in Detective Story (1951). She appeared as Barbara Waggoman, the love interest of James Stewart's character in the western The Man from Laramie (1955). Her final film role was the title character's sister Tirzah in William Wyler's 1959 Academy Award winning Best Picture Ben-Hur (1959).
In the 1960s, she appeared in TV shows, playing mostly bit parts on shows such as Perry Mason, The Rebel and Man Without a Gun. Her last screen appearance was in 1964, in an episode of Bonanza.
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Como Actor/Actriz
Perry Mason
Norma Brooks
Climax!
Mona Herbert
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jennie Parsons
Matinee Theater
The Rebel
Prudence Gant
Sugarfoot
Angel
The Detectives
Ben-Hur
Tirzah
Lights Out
Lo mejor de nuestra vida
Wilma Cameron
Tate
Hambre de venganza
Barbara Waggoman
La antesala del infierno
Susan Carmichael
Side Street
Ellen Norson
The Amazing Mr. X
Janet Burke
The Story of Mankind
Early Christian Woman
They Live by Night
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
The Deerslayer
Judith Hutter
Bury Me Dead
Rusty
Eight O'Clock Walk
Jill Manning
Mad at the World
Anne Bennett
The Miniver Story
Judy Miniver
L'amante di Paride
Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
Never Trust a Gambler
Virginia Merrill
My World Dies Screaming
Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
The Woman's Angle
Nina van Rhyne