Cast: Jeff Donnell

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jeff Donnell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


In a Lonely Place

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gloria Grahame · Frank Lovejoy · Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record...

7.9

7K votes

7.9

7K votes

Sweet Smell of Success

1957 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Susan Harrison · Martin Milner

Synopsis A columnist (Burt Lancaster) and a press agent (Tony Curtis) tear into the maelstrom of midtown Manhattan's night creatures in a sinister game that involves money, power and ultimately survival.

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Blue Gardenia

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Anne Baxter · Richard Conte · Ann Sothern · Raymond Burr

Synopsis Anne Baxter is a telephone operator who believes she committed murder when she was drinking away the tears of a broken romance. Too much rum with Raymond Burr, a licentious artist, has blacked out her memory and when she reads...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Spring Byington · Paul Stewart

Synopsis A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Claiming to have lived there as a boy, he soon ingratiates himself with the townspeople... including attractive heiress Elaine Corelli, wheelchair-bound since a...

6.5

226 votes

6.5

226 votes

Night Editor

1946 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast William Gargan · Janis Carter · Jeff Donnell · Tom Bryson

Synopsis Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation.

6.4

73 votes

6.4

73 votes

Easy Living

1949 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Victor Mature · Lucille Ball · Lizabeth Scott · Sonny Tufts

Synopsis Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. His wife, Liza, is there...

6.4

153 votes

6.4

153 votes

My Sister Eileen

1942 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Janet Blair · George Tobias

Synopsis Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

5.9

73 votes

My Man Godfrey

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast David Niven · June Allyson · Martha Hyer · Jessie Royce Landis

Synopsis The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past...

5.9

118 votes

5.9

118 votes

Roughshod

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Robert Sterling · Gloria Grahame · Claude Jarman Jr. · John Ireland

Synopsis Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes the girls on to the nearest ranch, where it turns...

5.7

41 votes

5.7

41 votes

Three Guys Named Mike

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Jane Wyman · Van Johnson · Howard Keel · Barry Sullivan

Synopsis Small-town girl Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) is accepted by Americal Airlines into their flight-attendant's school to become a air-hostess/stewardess, followed by her training events leading up to her first flight, which has to return to the airport because the stewardess...

5.6

31 votes

5.6

31 votes

The Fuller Brush Girl

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Lucille Ball · Eddie Albert · Carl Benton Reid · Gale Robbins

Synopsis Scatterbrained Sally Elliott gets a job as a Fuller brush girl and, as expected, her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. Things get worse when one of her customers is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. She and...

5.2

24 votes

5.2

24 votes

So This Is Love

1953 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Merv Griffin · Joan Weldon · Walter Abel

Synopsis Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947.

5.1

21 votes

5.1

21 votes

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

1957 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Audie Murphy · Kathryn Grant · Hope Emerson · Jeff Donnell

Synopsis Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian attacks triggered by Army massacre. He overcomes initial distrust and convinces the homesteaders (all women whose men are away fighting in the Confederate Army) to take refuge...

5.1

136 votes

5.1

136 votes

Direction Tom Blank · Cliff Bole · Michael Caffey · Tony Ganz

Cast Nicholas Hammond · David White · Michael Pataki · Hilly Hicks

Synopsis Peter Parker has a laboratory accident that changes his life. He finds himself with greatly increased strength, the ability to stick to walls to climb them without needing hand and footholds and a "spider-sense" (presented in this series as clairvoyance)...

4.4

702 votes

4.4

702 votes

The Amazing Spider-Man (TV)

1977 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction E.W. Swackhamer

Cast Nicholas Hammond · David White · Michael Pataki · Hilly Hicks

Synopsis The adventures of freelance photographer Peter Parker, who, after being bitten by a radioactive spider, discovered he had gained superpowers, such as super-strength and agility and the ability to climb sheer walls and ceilings. After inventing a super-sticky web serum,...

4.0

936 votes

4.0

936 votes

Nine Girls

1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Ann Harding · Evelyn Keyes · Jinx Falkenburg · Anita Louise

Synopsis One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, fellow sorority girl Mary O'Ryan decides to do some sleuthing on her own to unmask the killer.

Not rated

Not rated

Three Is a Family

1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Marjorie Reynolds · Charles Ruggles · Fay Bainter · Helen Broderick

Synopsis Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife Fay Bainter to enter the...

Not rated

Not rated

The Jimmy Stewart Show (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Christian Nyby · Bernard Wiesen · Hal Kanter · Ezra Stone

Cast James Stewart · Julie Adams · Jonathan Daly · Ellen Geer

Synopsis Beloved film legend James Stewart made his much-anticipated, highly-publicized series TV debut in this domestic comedy about the frequently chaotic home and professional lives of a small-town college professor.

Not rated

Not rated