Ann Gillis

Ann Gillis

Acting 1927-02-12 Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

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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1968 Poole's Mother
1962 Beryl Carrington
1962 Wilma
1962 Susan Forrester
1948
1947 Susan Peabody LaRue
1946 Paula Rainey
1946 Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
1946 Nora O'Leary
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1945 Angela Pidgeon
1944 Gloria Winthrop
1944 Judy (as Anne Gillis)
1944 Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)
1944 Paula Rainey
1943 Penny Winters
1943 Ann Gillis
1942 Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
1942 Jane Goodwin
1942 Sylvia
1942 Frankie Taylor
1941 Joey aka Abigail
1941 Brenda Lee
1941 Nancy Dana
1940 Valerie Malette
1940 Nan
1940 Emily Schuyler
1940 Nancy Grey
1939 Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
1939 Letty Lou
1938 Becky Thatcher
1938 Fluerette de Cava
1938 Annie
1937 Winnie Mae
1937 Peggy (uncredited)
1937 Rosalia as a Child
1936 Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
1936 Gwendolyn (uncredited)
1936 Lou Ann Stevens
1936 Peggy O'Rourke
1936 Little Alice (uncredited)