Ann Gillis
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Ann Gillis was born Alma Mabel Conner on February 12, 1927, in Little Rock, Arkansas. At age seven, she appeared in her first film, Men in White (1934), as an extra. During the next two years, she had uncredited appearances in six more films until she received her first major role in King of Hockey (1936). Warner Brothers Studios gave significant screen time to Gillis in this movie, in hopes that she would become another Shirley Temple. Although (like all child stars of the 1930s) she never...
Known For
Filmography
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
as Poole's Mother
Espionage
1963
as Nurse
The Saint
1962
as Beryl Carrington
The Saint
1962
as Wilma
Man of the World
1962
as Susan Forrester
Studio One
1948
Big Town After Dark
1947
as Susan Peabody LaRue
Janie Gets Married
1946
as Paula Rainey
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1946
as Sue
Gay Blades
1946
as Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
The Time of Their Lives
1946
as Nora O'Leary
The Cheaters
1945
as Angela Pidgeon
In Society
1944
as Gloria Winthrop
A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
1944
as Judy (as Anne Gillis)
Since You Went Away
1944
as Becky Anderson (uncredited)
Janie
1944
as Paula Rainey
Man from Music Mountain
1943
as Penny Winters
Stage Door Canteen
1943
as Ann Gillis
Bambi
1942
as Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
Meet the Stewarts
1942
as Jane Goodwin
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942
as Sylvia
Tough as They Come
1942
as Frankie Taylor
Mr. Dynamite
1941
as Joey aka Abigail
Glamour Boy
1941
as Brenda Lee
Nice Girl?
1941
as Nancy Dana
My Love Came Back
1940
as Valerie Malette
Little Men
1940
as Nan
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Emily Schuyler
Edison, the Man
1940
as Nancy Grey
Beau Geste
1939
as Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
The Under-Pup
1939
as Letty Lou
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
as Becky Thatcher
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
as Fluerette de Cava
Little Orphan Annie
1938
as Annie
Off to the Races
1937
as Winnie Mae
You Can't Buy Luck
1937
as Peggy (uncredited)
The Californian
1937
as Rosalia as a Child
The Great Ziegfeld
1936
as Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
Under Your Spell
1936
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
The Singing Cowboy
1936
as Lou Ann Stevens
King of Hockey
1936
as Peggy O'Rourke
Postal Inspector
1936
as Little Alice (uncredited)