Cathy O'Donnell

Acting

Народився 6 липня 1923, Siluria, Alabama, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cathy O'Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фільмографія

• Tate
• The Detectives
• The Rebel — Prudence Gant, Felicity Bowman
• 1959Бен-Гур — Tirzah
• 1958My World Dies Screaming — Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
• Sugarfoot — Angel
• 1957The Deerslayer — Judith Hutter
• 1957The Story of Mankind — Early Christian Woman
• Перрі Мейсон — Norma Brooks
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Jennie Parsons
• 1955Mad at the World — Anne Bennett
• Matinee Theater
• 1955Людина з Ларемі — Barbara Waggoman
• Climax! — Mona Herbert
• 1954Eight O'Clock Walk — Jill Manning
• 1954Loves of Three Queens — Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
• 1952The Woman's Angle — Nina van Rhyne
• 1951Detective Story — Susan Carmichael
• 1951Never Trust a Gambler — Virginia Merrill
• 1950Side Street — Ellen Norson
• 1950The Miniver Story — Judy Miniver
• Lights Out
• 1949They Live by Night — Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
• 1948The Amazing Mr. X — Janet Burke
• 1947Bury Me Dead — Rusty
• 1946Найкращі роки нашого життя — Wilma Cameron