Cathy O'Donnell
Actor
Born July 6, 1923 in Siluria, Alabama, USA
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.
Filmography
Tate
Ben-Hur
Tirzah
The Detectives
The Rebel
Prudence Gant
My World Dies Screaming
Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
The Story of Mankind
Early Christian Woman
Perry Mason
Norma Brooks
Sugarfoot
Angel
The Deerslayer
Judith Hutter
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jennie Parsons
Matinee Theater
The Man from Laramie
Barbara Waggoman
Mad at the World
Anne Bennett
Loves of Three Queens
Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
Climax!
Mona Herbert
Eight O'Clock Walk
Jill Manning
The Woman's Angle
Nina van Rhyne
Detective Story
Susan Carmichael
Never Trust a Gambler
Virginia Merrill
The Miniver Story
Judy Miniver
Side Street
Ellen Norson
They Live by Night
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Lights Out
The Amazing Mr. X
Janet Burke
Bury Me Dead
Rusty
The Best Years of Our Lives
Wilma Cameron