Cathy O'Donnell
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 on...
Known For
Filmography
Tate
1960
Ben-Hur
1959
as Tirzah
The Rebel
1959
as Prudence Gant
The Detectives
1959
The Rebel
1959
as Felicity Bowman
My World Dies Screaming
1958
as Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
The Story of Mankind
1957
as Early Christian Woman
The Deerslayer
1957
as Judith Hutter
Perry Mason
1957
as Norma Brooks
Sugarfoot
1957
as Angel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jennie Parsons
The Man from Laramie
1955
as Barbara Waggoman
Mad at the World
1955
as Anne Bennett
Matinee Theater
1955
Eight O'Clock Walk
1954
as Jill Manning
Loves of Three Queens
1954
as Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
Climax!
1954
as Mona Herbert
The Woman's Angle
1952
as Nina van Rhyne
Detective Story
1951
as Susan Carmichael
Never Trust a Gambler
1951
as Virginia Merrill
Side Street
1950
as Ellen Norson
The Miniver Story
1950
as Judy Miniver
They Live by Night
1949
as Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Lights Out
1949
The Amazing Mr. X
1948
as Janet Burke
Bury Me Dead
1947
as Rusty
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Wilma Cameron