
Known for
Acting
Born
February 12, 1927
Birthplace
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Died
January 31, 2018 (aged 90)
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...
1968
as Poole's Mother
1963
1962
1962
1948
1947
as Susan Peabody LaRue
1946
as Sue
1946
as Nora O'Leary
1946
as Paula Rainey
1946
as Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
1945
as Angela Pidgeon
1944
as Judy (as Anne Gillis)
1944
as Paula Rainey
1944
as Gloria Winthrop
1944
as Becky Anderson (uncredited)
1943
as Penny Winters
1943
as Ann Gillis
1942
as Sylvia
1942
as Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
1942
as Frankie Taylor
1942
as Jane Goodwin
1941
as Brenda Lee
1941
as Joey aka Abigail
1941
as Nancy Dana
1940
as Nan