Personal Info
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Cathy O'Donnell
Acting
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Ben-Hur
as Tirzah
My World Dies Screaming
as Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
The Story of Mankind
as Early Christian Woman
The Deerslayer
as Judith Hutter
The Man from Laramie
as Barbara Waggoman
Mad at the World
as Anne Bennett
Loves of Three Queens
as Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
Eight O'Clock Walk
as Jill Manning
The Woman's Angle
as Nina van Rhyne
Detective Story
as Susan Carmichael
TV Shows
Tate
1 ep.
The Rebel
as Felicity Bowman · 1 ep.
The Detectives
1 ep.
Perry Mason
as Norma Brooks · 1 ep.
Sugarfoot
as Angel · 1 ep.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jennie Parsons · 1 ep.
Matinee Theater
1 ep.
Climax!
as Mona Herbert · 1 ep.
Lights Out
1 ep.