Cathy O'Donnell
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday6 July 1923
Died11 April 1970 (age 46)
Place of birthSiluria, Alabama, USA
Known credits26
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 one of her most memorable films, They Live by Night (1949) starring with Farley Granger, widely consid…
Tate
1960
Ben-Hur
1959 · Tirzah
The Detectives
1959
The Rebel
1959 · Prudence Gant
The Rebel
1959 · Felicity Bowman
My World Dies Screaming
1958 · Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Early Christian Woman
Perry Mason
1957 · Norma Brooks
Sugarfoot
1957 · Angel
The Deerslayer
1957 · Judith Hutter
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Jennie Parsons
Matinee Theater
1955
The Man from Laramie
1955 · Barbara Waggoman
Mad at the World
1955 · Anne Bennett
Loves of Three Queens
1954 · Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
Climax!
1954 · Mona Herbert
Eight O'Clock Walk
1954 · Jill Manning
The Woman's Angle
1952 · Nina van Rhyne
Detective Story
1951 · Susan Carmichael
Never Trust a Gambler
1951 · Virginia Merrill
The Miniver Story
1950 · Judy Miniver
Side Street
1950 · Ellen Norson
They Live by Night
1949 · Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Lights Out
1949
The Amazing Mr. X
1948 · Janet Burke
Bury Me Dead
1947 · Rusty
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · Wilma Cameron
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