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Ann Gillis

Actress / Film Actress / Voice Actress | * 02/12/1927 († 90, 01/31/2018) | Little Rock, Arkansas (United States of America (USA))
Alma Mabel Conner (February 12, 1927 – January 31, 2018), known professionally as Ann Gillis, was an American actress, best known for her film roles as a child actress. She performed the voice of Faline (as young adult) in the 1942 Disney animated film Bambi. ()

Ann Gillis was born Alma Mabel Conner on February 12, 1927, in Little Rock, Arkansas. At age seven, she appeared in her first film, Men in White (1934), as an extra. During the next two years, she had uncredited appearances in six more films until she received her first major role in King of Hockey (1936). Warner Brothers Studios gave significant screen time to Gillis in this movie, in hopes that she would become another Shirley Temple. Although (like all child stars of the 1930s) she never achieved Temple's level of fame, for the next several years Gillis starred in many films, almost always playing a spoiled, bratty character. She had two rare sympathetic roles as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) and as the title character in Little Orphan Annie (1938). One scene in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer called for her to go into screaming hysterics when her character was trapped in a cave of bats, and Gillis delivered in a powerful performance that is probably the most memorable scene of her film career. As Gillis grew older, however, her career slowed down, and she left Hollywood in 1947. When she left Hollywood she married Paul Ziebold and had 2 sons. She then divorced, relocated to New York City and married Richard Fraser, a Scottish-born actor (they had a son born in 1958). During the 1950s and '60s, Gillis made sporadic television appearances, and in 1959, she hosted a national telecast presentation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Gillis and her husband moved to England in 1961, and they were living in London when they heard of a casting call for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) that called for an American actress living in the city. Gillis auditioned and got the role; it remains her final film to date. Ann moved to Belgium in 1972 where she met and married Belgian René Van Hulst (deceased 1999). She lived in Belgium from 1972 to 2014 and became a Belgian citizen, devoting much of her time to painting and music, she was an accomplished pianist and harpist. She moved to England, UK in December 2014 and passed away peacefully on 31/1/2018.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Movies with Ann Gillis as Actress(34)

as Poole's Mother1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
as Susan Peabody LaRue1947 Big Town After Dark
as Nora O'Leary1946 The Time of Their Lives
as Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)1946 Gay Blades
as Paula Rainey1946 Janie Gets Married
as Angela Pidgeon1945 The Cheaters
as Gloria Winthrop1944 In Society
as Judy (as Anne Gillis)1944 A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
as Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)1944 Since You Went Away
as Paula Rainey1944 Janie
as herself1943 Stage Door Canteen
as Penny Winters1943 Man from Music Mountain
as Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)1942 Bambi
as Frankie Taylor1942 Tough as They Come
as Jane Goodwin1942 Meet the Stewarts
as Nancy Dana1941 Nice Girl?
as Brenda Lee1941 Glamour Boy
as Joey aka Abigail1941 Mr. Dynamite
as Nan1940 Little Men
as Valerie Malette1940 My Love Came Back
as Emily Schuyler1940 All This, and Heaven Too
as Nancy Grey1940 Edison, the Man
as Isobel Rivers (as a Child)1939 Beau Geste
as Letty Lou1939 The Under-Pup
as Fluerette de Cava1938 Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Becky Thatcher1938 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
as Annie1938 Little Orphan Annie
as Rosalia as a Child1937 The Californian
as Peggy (uncredited)1937 You Can't Buy Luck
as Winnie Mae1937 Off to the Races
as Lou Ann Stevens1936 The Singing Cowboy
as Peggy O'Rourke1936 King of Hockey

TV Shows/Series with Ann Gillis as Actress(3)

as Beryl Carrington1962 The Saint

Additional Information

Official websites:
Full Name: Ann Gillis
Born: Saturday, 02/12 1927 (February) in Little Rock, Arkansas (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 01/31 2018 (January) in Horam (aged: 90)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Employer: Warner Bros.
Other names for Ann Gillis (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Anne Gillis"
"Alma Mabel Conner"
Ann Gillis frequently works together with these people:
James Daly (12x, Actor)
Charlton Heston (10x, Actor)
Richard Kiley (9x, Actor)
Leslie Nielsen (8x, Actor)
Everett Sloane (8x, Actor)
Nina Foch (8x, Actress)
Vaughn Taylor (8x, Actor)
Edward Andrews (7x, Actor)
Berry Kroeger (7x, Actor)
Skip Homeier (7x, Actor)
Betsy Palmer (7x, Actress)
Charles Korvin (7x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:221708, Added: 07/29/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024