Cathy O'Donnell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 6, 1923, Siluria, Alabama, USA
- Died
- April 11, 1970
- Movies
- 17
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Tirzah |
| 1958 | My World Dies Screaming | Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell) |
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind | Early Christian Woman |
| 1957 | The Deerslayer | Judith Hutter |
| 1955 | The Man from Laramie | Barbara Waggoman |
| 1955 | Mad at the World | Anne Bennett |
| 1954 | Loves of Three Queens | Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships) |
| 1954 | Eight O'Clock Walk | Jill Manning |
| 1952 | The Woman's Angle | Nina van Rhyne |
| 1951 | Detective Story | Susan Carmichael |
| 1951 | Never Trust a Gambler | Virginia Merrill |
| 1950 | The Miniver Story | Judy Miniver |
| 1950 | Side Street | Ellen Norson |
| 1949 | They Live by Night | Catherine "Keechie" Mobley |
| 1948 | The Amazing Mr. X | Janet Burke |
| 1947 | Bury Me Dead | Rusty |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Wilma Cameron |
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