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person_profile-Elinor Donahue

Elinor Donahue Age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Elinor Donahue

Date of Birth:

Apr 19, 1937

Country of birth:

U.S.A

Biography of

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."

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Filmography of

Elinor Donahue

Found 32 Movies in total

... 2016

... 2004

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within

Rebecca Quinn Dickinson ( Actor )

... 2001

Dear God

Elinor Donahue ( Actor )

... 1996

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Orphanage Woman ( Actor )

... 1991

Pretty Woman

Bridget ( Actor )

... 1990

High School U.S.A.

Mrs. Franklin ( Actor )

... 1983

Going Berserk

Margaret Anderson ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1978

Doctors' Private Lives

Mona Wise ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1977

... 1977

Mulligan's Stew

Jane Mulligan ( Actor )

... 1977

The Father Knows Best Reunion

Betty Anderson ( Actor )

... 1977

Gidget Gets Married

Medley Blaine ( Actor )

... 1972

In Name Only

Esther Garrity ( Actor )

... 1969

Girls Town

Mary Lee Morgan ( Actor )

... 1959

Imitation of Life

Lora's Friend ( Actor )

... 1959

Love Is Better Than Ever

Pattie Marie Levoy ( Actor )

... 1952

Her First Romance

Lucille Stewart ( Actor )

... 1951

My Blue Heaven

Mary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

... 1950

The Happy Years

Connie Brown ( Actor )

... 1950

Singing Guns

Little Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Maud Shaw (as Mary Eleanor Donahue) ( Actor )

... 1949

Tenth Avenue Angel

Cynthia (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1948

Three Daring Daughters

Alix Morgan ( Actor )

... 1948

The Unfinished Dance

Josie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue) ( Actor )

... 1947

Winter Wonderland

Betty Wheeler ( Actor )

... 1946

And Now Tomorrow

Janice ( Actor )

... 1944

Honeymoon Lodge

Janie Thomas ( Actor )

... 1943

Mister Big

Muggsy ( Actor )

... 1943