Cathy O'Donnell
Acting
Born: 1923-07-06 · Siluria, Alabama, USA
Died: 1970-04-11
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
🎬 Movies (17)
Ben-Hur
1959
Tirzah
My World Dies Screaming
1958
Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
The Story of Mankind
1957
Early Christian Woman
The Deerslayer
1957
Judith Hutter
The Man from Laramie
1955
Barbara Waggoman
Mad at the World
1955
Anne Bennett
Eight O'Clock Walk
1954
Jill Manning
Loves of Three Queens
1954
Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
The Woman's Angle
1952
Nina van Rhyne
Detective Story
1951
Susan Carmichael
Never Trust a Gambler
1951
Virginia Merrill
Side Street
1950
Ellen Norson
The Miniver Story
1950
Judy Miniver
They Live by Night
1949
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
The Amazing Mr. X
1948
Janet Burke
Bury Me Dead
1947
Rusty
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Wilma Cameron
