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Elinor Donahue

Mary Eleanor Donahue (born April 19, 1937), credited as Elinor Donahue, is an American actress, best remembered today for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Robert Young and Jane Wyatt, on the 1950s American sitcom Father Knows Best. Donahue achieved stardom for her role as the elder daughter, Betty, on the television family series Father Knows Best. Her co-stars were Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray as her younger brother, James "Bud" Anderson, Jr., and Lauren Chapin as her younger sister, Kathy. Donahue was a musical judge in ABC's Jukebox Jury (1953–54). While in the first season of Father Knows Best she also appeared on The Ray Bolger Show, starring Ray Bolger as a song-and-dance man. Thereafter, she was cast with James Best, Ann Doran, and J. Carrol Naish in the 1956 episode "The White Carnation" of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. She guest starred on an episode of U.S. Marshal. She also appeared as a new bride in the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show episode titled "The Newlyweds" that aired April 2, 1956. She played Georgiana Balanger in the episode "Dennis and the Wedding" (1960) on Dennis the Menace.[5] Donahue was also cast, in 1960, with Marion Ross in an episode ("Duet") of The Brothers Brannagan. She played Miriam Welby on ABC's The Odd Couple, Jane Mulligan on Mulligan's Stew, and Nurse Hunnicut on Days of Our Lives. She was featured in 12 episodes of CBS's The Andy Griffith Show as pharmacist Ellie Walker, even getting a mention in the opening credits. The character was intended to be a love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor, but after one season (1960–1961), Donahue decided to ask for a release from her three-year contract.[6] In 1963, Donahue was cast in an episode of NBC's short-lived modern Western series, Redigo, with Richard Egan as the rancher Jim Redigo; then in 1964, she appeared as Melanie in "The Secret in the Stone" in the NBC medical drama dealing with psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour, starring Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy. Additionally, on February 9, 1963, she played Letty May in the episode "The Burning Tree" on Have Gun Will Travel. In the 1964–65 season, Donahue costarred as Joan Randall, the daughter of Walter Burnley, played by John McGiver, on the CBS sitcom, Many Happy Returns about the complaint department of a fictitious Los Angeles department store. She guest-appeared on Star Trek in the second-season episode "Metamorphosis" (1967) as commissioner Nancy Hedford. In 1966, she guest starred on the TV series A Man Called Shenandoah, episode 8, "Town On Fire."

  • Nacimiento: 1937-04-19, Tacoma, Washington, USA
  • Valoración en CMNetwork Actors: 3,4 de 5

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Conocido por

  • Pretty Woman (1990) — Bridget
  • Friends (1994) — Aunt Lillian
  • La doctora Quinn (1993) — Rebecca Quinn
  • Princesa por sorpresa 2 (2004) — Lady Palimore
  • Pesadilla final: La muerte de Freddy (1991) — Orphanage Woman
  • The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — Ellie Walker
  • Eek! The Cat (1992) — Mom (voz)
  • Star Trek (1966) — Commissioner Nancy Hedford

Filmografía

  • Princesa por sorpresa 2 (2004) — Lady Palimore
  • Caso abierto (2003) — Esther 'Legs' Davis (2005)
  • La doctora Quinn: El corazón por dentro (2001) — Rebecca Quinn Dickinson
  • Un timador con alas (1996) — Elinor Donahue
  • Friends (1994) — Aunt Lillian
  • Ellen (1994) — Delores Warwell
  • La doctora Quinn (1993) — Rebecca Quinn
  • Eek! The Cat (1992) — Mom (voz)
  • Herman's Head (1991) — Mrs. Fitzer
  • Pesadilla final: La muerte de Freddy (1991) — Orphanage Woman
  • Búscate la vida (1990) — Gradys Peterson
  • Pretty Woman (1990) — Bridget
  • Coach (1989) — Lorraine
  • The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987) — Susan Baxter
  • Las chicas de oro (1985) — Katherine
  • Se ha escrito un crimen (1984) — Connie Lewis
  • No Earthly Reason (1984) — Mrs. Morrison
  • Lío en la universidad (1983) — Mrs. Franklin
  • Para volverse loco (1983) — Margaret Anderson
  • Just an Overnight Guest (1983)
  • Hotel (1982) — Louise
  • Condominium (1980) — Audrey Ames
  • $weepstake$ (1979)
  • Arnold (1978)
  • Police Story: No Margin for Error (1978)
  • Doctors' Private Lives (1978) — Mona Wise
  • Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977) — Betty Anderson
  • Mulligan's Stew (1977) — Jane Mulligan
  • Dick Clark's Good Old Days (1977)
  • Vacaciones en el mar (1977) — Rowena / Betty Anderson / Mrs. Van Buren / Andrea Hammond
  • CHiPs (1977) — Elnor Donahue (sin acreditar)
  • Mulligan's Stew (1977) — Jane Mulligan
  • The Father Knows Best Reunion (1977) — Betty Anderson
  • Battle of the Network Stars (1976)
  • One Day at a Time (1975)
  • Los hombres de Harrelson (1975)
  • La mujer policia (1974) — Ellie Tarlow
  • Petrocelli (1974) — Joan Hiller
  • Días felices (1974)
  • Police Story (1973)
  • Barnaby Jones (1973) — Judy Corbett
  • The Rookies (1972)
  • Gidget Gets Married (1972) — Medley Blaine
  • The Odd Couple (1970) — Miriam Welby
  • In Name Only (1969) — Esther Garrity
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969)
  • La novicia voladora (1967) — Dr. Jennifer Ethrington
  • Occasional Wife (1966)
  • Star Trek (1966) — Commissioner Nancy Hedford
  • Many Happy Returns (1964)
  • Redigo (1963)
  • The Eleventh Hour (1962)
  • El Virginiano (1962) — Carole Cole
  • Dr. Kildare (1961) — Sharon Calloway
  • The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — Ellie Walker
  • The Brothers Brannagan (1960) — Diane
  • Girls Town (1959) — Mary Lee Morgan
  • Daniel el travieso (1959)
  • Imitación a la vida (1959) — Lora's Friend (sin acreditar)
  • 77 Sunset Strip (1958) — Laura Holt
  • Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Letty Mae Stinchcomb
  • Father Knows Best (1954) — Betty Anderson
  • Letter to Loretta (1953) — Debbie Waring / Janey
  • General Electric Theater (1953) — Carol Madsen
  • Nunca el amor fue tan bello (1952) — Pattie Marie Levoy
  • Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
  • Her First Romance (1951) — Lucille Stewart
  • The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950) — Emily Vanderlip Foster
  • My Blue Heaven (1950) — Mary (sin acreditar)
  • Té para dos (1950)
  • Años felices (1950) — Connie Brown
  • La canción del bandolero (1950) — Little Girl (sin acreditar)
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949) — Maud Shaw (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)
  • Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) — Cynthia (sin acreditar)
  • Three Daring Daughters (1948) — Alix Morgan
  • La danza inconclusa (1947) — Josie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)
  • Un invierno mágico (1946) — Betty Wheeler
  • And Now Tomorrow (1944) — Janice
  • Honeymoon Lodge (1943) — Janie Thomas
  • Mister Big (1943) — Muggsy
  • Girls' Town (1942) — Bit Role (sin acreditar)