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Doris Day
Known for: ActingDoris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 - May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer, and an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Her entertainment career began in the 1940s as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey". In 1948, she appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she appeared in 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, she was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).
Filmography 41
The Doris Day Show
as Doris Martin 
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Jo McKenna 
Tea for Two
as Nanette Carter 
Chaos: The Manson Murders
as Self - Actress & Mother of Terry Melcher (archive footage) 
Storm Warning
as Lucy Rice 
Pillow Talk
as Jan Morrow 
The Glass Bottom Boat
as Jennifer Nelson 
Calamity Jane
as Calamity Jane 
Midnight Lace
as Kit Preston 
That Touch of Mink
as Cathy Timberlake 
Young Man with a Horn
as Jo Jordan 
Send Me No Flowers
as Judy Kimball 
The Thrill of It All
as Beverly Boyer 
Love Me or Leave Me
as Ruth Etting 
Lover Come Back
as Carol Templeton 
Teacher's Pet
as Erica Stone 
Move Over, Darling
as Ellen Wagstaff Arden 
Billy Rose's Jumbo
as Kitty Wonder 
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Abby McClure 
It Happened to Jane
as Jane Osgood 
The Ballad of Josie
as Josie 
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
as Kate Mackay 
Young at Heart
as Laurie Tuttle 
Romance on the High Seas
as Miss Georgia Garrett 
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage) 
It's a Great Feeling
as Judy Adams 
The Tunnel of Love
as Isolde Poole 
My Dream Is Yours
as Martha Gibson 
Lullaby of Broadway
as Melinda Howard 
On Moonlight Bay
as Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield 
Do Not Disturb
as Janet Harper 
The West Point Story
as Jan Wilson 
The Winning Team
as Aimee Alexander 
The Pajama Game
as Katherine 'Babe' Williams 
April in Paris
as Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson 
I'll See You in My Dreams
as Grace LeBoy Kahn 
Lucky Me
as Candy Williams 
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
as Marjorie Winfield 
Caprice
as Patricia Foster 
Julie
as Julie Benton 
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as Self (archive footage)