Cast: Cathy O'Donnell

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


The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell

Plot After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they...

8.2

8K votes

8.2

8K votes

Ben-Hur

1959 · Movie · 211 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Charlton Heston · Jack Hawkins · Stephen Boyd · Haya Harareet

Plot Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in...

7.9

66K votes

7.9

66K votes

The Man from Laramie

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon

Plot Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

They Live by Night

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Cathy O'Donnell · Farley Granger · Howard Da Silva · Jay C. Flippen

Plot In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Detective Story

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Plot On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Side Street

1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Farley Granger · Cathy O'Donnell · James Craig · Paul Kelly

Plot Joe Norson (Farley Granger), a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, Ellen (Cathy O'Donnell), yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers...

7.0

279 votes

7.0

279 votes

The Amazing Mr. X

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast Turhan Bey · Lynn Bari · Cathy O'Donnell · Richard Carlson

Plot On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who...

6.3

56 votes

6.3

56 votes

The Miniver Story

1950 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Cathy O'Donnell · Greer Garson · John Hodiak · Leo Genn

Plot The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.

6.0

57 votes

6.0

57 votes

Bury Me Dead

1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast Cathy O'Donnell · June Lockhart · Hugh Beaumont · Mark Daniels

Plot Barbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin, had tried to do away with her, and is also (rightfully) curious as to just...

5.7

24 votes

5.7

24 votes

Mad at the World

1955 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Harry Essex

Cast Frank Lovejoy · Keefe Brasselle · Cathy O'Donnell · Karen Sharpe

Plot The infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after been hit by a bottle thrown by a gang of juvenile-delinquent hoodlums known as the Wolf Pack. Police...

Not rated

Not rated

Loves of Three Queens

1954 · Movie · 67 min. · Italy

Direction Marc Allégret · Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Massimo Serato · Alba Arnova · Elli Parvo

Plot Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three...

Not rated

Not rated

Eight O'Clock Walk

1954 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Richard Attenborough · Cathy O'Donnell · Derek Farr · Ian Hunter

Plot Taxicab driver Tom Banning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl as an April-fool prank. The girl is later found murdered and Manning is picked up by...

Not rated

Not rated

My World Dies Screaming

1958 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harold Daniels

Cast Gerald Mohr · Cathy O'Donnell · William Ching · John Qualen

Plot American-born Sheila Wayne has lived in Switzerland since childhood. Now newly married, she has a recurring nightmare about an ominous old house she can't recall having seen in waking life....

Not rated

Not rated

The Deerslayer

1957 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Lex Barker · Rita Moreno · Forrest Tucker · Cathy O'Donnell

Plot In the wilderness of early Colonial days, trapper Tom Hutter lives with his two daughters in an isolated floating fort. Tom's one-man vendetta against Indians has brought the wrath of...

Not rated

Not rated

The Woman's Angle

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Arliss

Cast Edward Underdown · Cathy O'Donnell · Lois Maxwell · Claude Farell

Plot The head of a family of musicians has a complicated love life.

Not rated

Not rated

Never Trust a Gambler

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Dane Clark · Cathy O'Donnell · Tom Drake · Jeff Corey

Plot Small-time gambler flees town and hooks up with his ex-wife (Virginia) to avoid arrest for murder. Protecting Virginia from a masher, he accidentally kills the man, then tries to make...

Not rated

Not rated