Personal Info
Birth date
1919-09-01 (105 Years)
Day of death
1964-05-24
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
-Renee Godfrey
Biography
Sultry-eyed, dark-haired and exquisite-looking, New York City native Renee Godfrey certainly had the earnestness and requisite beauty to catapult herself to the top of the film industry but, in the end, fell short of her initial potential. She later put her career on the back burner to raise a family and, sadly, fell ill with cancer before she could resurrect it, dying at the young age of 44.
Filmography
Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.The Donna Reed Show
6.2
Overview:
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.77 Sunset Strip
6.7
Overview:
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.Hazel
6.8
Overview:
Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28, 1961 until April 11, 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons, and then on CBS for its final season. The first season, except for one color episode was in black and white, the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.Buffalo Bill Jr.
5
Overview:
Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956.Letter to Loretta
6.5
Overview:
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.Citizen Kane
7.997
Overview:
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.Terror by Night
6.5
Overview:
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.Inherit the Wind
7.661
Overview:
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.Tender Is the Night
5.4
Overview:
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.Can-Can
6.6
Overview:
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.Kitty Foyle
6.556
Overview:
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.The Decision of Christopher Blake
3.5
Overview:
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.French Leave
NYR
Overview:
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.Her Favorite Patient
5.667
Overview:
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".Highways by Night
6
Overview:
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.Unexpected Uncle
6.5
Overview:
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.Down Missouri Way
NYR
Overview:
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.Acting
1962Tender Is the Night as Nurse (uncredited)
1961Hazel (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Inherit the Wind as Mrs. Stebbins
1960Can-Can as Dowager (uncredited)
195877 Sunset Strip (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958The Donna Reed Show (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1957Perry Mason (1, 1 Episode) as Miss Winslow, Lady Librarian
1956The Rosemary Clooney Show (1 Episode) as Self
1955Buffalo Bill Jr. (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1953Letter to Loretta (1 Episode) as Andree Chartaud
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Ethel MacDougal
1948The Decision of Christopher Blake as Sheila, Actress in Play (uncredited)
1948French Leave as Mimi
1946Down Missouri Way as Gloria Baxter
1946Winter Wonderland as Phyllis Simpson
1946Terror by Night as Vivian Vedder
1945Her Favorite Patient as Stella Livingston
1942Highways by Night as Ellen Cromwell
1942Framing Father as Mary Adams (as Renee Haal)
1942Wedded Blitz as Unknown
1941Unexpected Uncle as Carol West (as Renee Haal)
1941Hurry, Charlie, Hurry as Josephine Whitley (as Renee Haal)
1941Citizen Kane as Nurse (uncredited)
1940Kitty Foyle as Shopgirl in Elevator (uncredited)