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Cathy O'Donnell
Acting
06 Jul 1923
† 11 Apr 1970
Siluria, Alabama, USA
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...
Also Known As
Ann Steely
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Cathy O'Donnell's Movies
79%
Ben-Hur
18 Nov 1959
78%
The Best Years of Our Lives
25 Dec 1946
72%
The Man from Laramie
19 Aug 1955
69%
They Live by Night
01 Nov 1949
70%
Detective Story
19 Oct 1951
62%
The Amazing Mr. X
29 Jul 1948
65%
Side Street
23 Mar 1950
43%
The Story of Mankind
08 Nov 1957
46%
Bury Me Dead
18 Oct 1947
60%
The Deerslayer
10 Sept 1957
60%
The Miniver Story
26 Oct 1950
58%
My World Dies Screaming
20 Aug 1958
56%
Mad at the World
13 May 1955
67%
Eight O'Clock Walk
16 Mar 1954
50%
Never Trust a Gambler
13 Jul 1951
0%
The Woman's Angle
12 Feb 1952
0%
Loves of Three Queens
24 Dec 1954
