Background
Anderson, Donna was born on July 23, 1925 in Akiak, Alaska. Daughter of Louis John and Wenona (Hanly) Knaflich.
Actor educator actress dance educator
Anderson, Donna was born on July 23, 1925 in Akiak, Alaska. Daughter of Louis John and Wenona (Hanly) Knaflich.
Student, Southern California School Music and Arts; Student, Los Angeles City College; Studies with Rozelle Frey, Ted Howard, David Lichine, Eugene Loring, Eleanora Mara, Carmelita Maracci, Bronislava Nijinska, others.
Artistic director The Players Theatre, Los Angels and Burbank, California, 1965-1983. Private acting coach The Anderson Studio, Flippin, Arkansas, since 1984. Instructor dance North Arkansas Community College, Harrison, 1984-1985.
Appeared in numerous theater productions including Happy Journey, Curse You, Jack Dalton, Greensleeves, After the Fall, The California Story, The Princess & the Unicorn, The Streets of New York, 45 Minutes from Broadway, Little Mary Sunshine, Americana, television shows include Panorama Pacific, Peter Gunn, Rawhide, The Dennis O'Keefe Show, Little House on the Prairie, films include The Five Pennies, Waterloo Bridge, One Eyed Jacks, The True Story of Jesse James, The Wrong Man, Some Like it Hot, The Story of Ruth, Deadhead Miles.
President Flippin Civic Club, 1987-1988. Member American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Daughters of the American Revolution (regent Captain Nathan Watkins chapter 1996-1998), Actors Equity Association (member pension and welfare committee, member Waiver Theatre committee), Screen Actors Guild, American National Theatre and Academy (treasurer, board directors), American Community Theatre Association, American Guild Museum Artists (member West Coast executive committee, board governors), Actors Fund America (life), University of California at Los Angeles Alumni Association (life).
Married Cedric S. Anderson III, May 18, 1946 (deceased February 1984).