Cathy O'Donnell

Cathy O'Donnell

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.

  • Title: Cathy O'Donnell
  • Popularity: 9.306
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1923-07-06
  • Place of Birth: Siluria, Alabama, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ann Steely
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Cathy O'Donnell Movies

  • 1946
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    The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    7.776 1946 HD

    It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...

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  • 1959
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    Ben-Hur

    Ben-Hur

    7.9 1959 HD

    In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of...

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  • 1951
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    Detective Story

    Detective Story

    7 1951 HD

    Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a...

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  • 1948
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    The Amazing Mr. X

    The Amazing Mr. X

    6.2 1948 HD

    On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark...

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  • 1957
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    The Story of Mankind

    The Story of Mankind

    4.636 1957 HD

    The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

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  • 1947
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    Bury Me Dead

    Bury Me Dead

    4.824 1947 HD

    A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

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  • 1949
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    They Live by Night

    They Live by Night

    6.8 1949 HD

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from...

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  • 1955
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    The Man from Laramie

    The Man from Laramie

    7.2 1955 HD

    Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself...

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  • 1950
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    Side Street

    Side Street

    6.6 1950 HD

    A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of...

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  • 1955
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    Mad at the World

    Mad at the World

    5.7 1955 HD

    A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured...

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  • 1958
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    My World Dies Screaming

    My World Dies Screaming

    5.8 1958 HD

    A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.

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  • 1954
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    Eight O'Clock Walk

    Eight O'Clock Walk

    6.7 1954 HD

    Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

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  • 1957
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    The Deerslayer

    The Deerslayer

    5.4 1957 HD

    After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the...

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  • 1951
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    Never Trust a Gambler

    Never Trust a Gambler

    5.4 1951 HD

    A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.

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  • 1950
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    The Miniver Story

    The Miniver Story

    6 1950 HD

    The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and...

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  • 1952
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    The Woman's Angle

    The Woman's Angle

    1 1952 HD

    The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search,...

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  • 1954
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    Loves of Three Queens

    Loves of Three Queens

    1 1954 HD

    At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict,...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    4.6 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

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  • 1959
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    5.3 1959 HD

    The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one...

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  • 1957
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    Sugarfoot

    Sugarfoot

    4.8 1957 HD

    Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner...

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  • 1959
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    The Detectives

    The Detectives

    5.6 1959 HD

    The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1960
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    Tate

    Tate

    4.5 1960 HD

    Tate is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from June 8 until September 14, 1960. It was created by Harry Julian Fink, who wrote...

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  • 1949
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

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  • 1959
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    5.3 1959 HD

    The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one...

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