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Ann Doran

Acting · Born 1911-07-28 · Amarillo, Texas, USA

Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund for 30 years.

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Credits · 270

1986 · Mrs. Chatham

The Twilight Zone

1985 · Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")

Highway to Heaven

1984 · Mrs. Bradley

1984 · Mrs. Rawling

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

All the Way Home

1981 · Great-Aunt Sadie

Advice to the Lovelorn

1981 · Ada Wells

First Monday in October

1981 · Storekeeper

1981 · Grandmother Gibbons

1980 · Sam Hunter's Mother

Tales of the Unexpected

1979 · Mary Deacon

1978 · Aunt Gert

1978 · Emma Howard

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

1977 · Grandma Lundy

We've Got Each Other

1977 · Emma Fisher

1977 · Mrs. McCauley

Eight Is Enough

The Gumball Rally

1976 · Mrs. Ontley

1976 · Grandma

The Family Nobody Wanted

1975 · Mrs. Kimberly

The Werewolf of Woodstock

Little House on the Prairie

1974 · Helen Tyler

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

1974 · Secretary

The Last Angry Man

1974 · Nurse Whitbread

The Streets of San Francisco

1972 · Meg Cratty

1972 · Mrs. Perigrew

1972 · Mistress Dodge

The Failing of Raymond

1971 · Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

1971 · Mrs. Kingston

1971 · Mrs. Sorenson

Alias Smith and Jones

Weekend of Terror

1970 · Sister Nadine

1970 · Loretta Spoon

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970 · Mrs. Lomax

The Bold Ones: The Senator

1970 · Jean Wydell

1969 · Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

The Arrangement

1969 · Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Once You Kiss a Stranger...

1969 · Lee's Mother

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

1969 · Nurse Stern

Live a Little, Love a Little

1968 · Landlady (uncredited)

1968 · Eva Styles

1967 · Lady on Witness Stand

1967 · Miss Mabry

1967 · Mrs. Moody

The Guns of Will Sonnett

1967 · Harriet Miles

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

1966 · Doris Parker

1965 · Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)

The Legend of Jesse James

1965 · Mrs. James

Kitten with a Whip

1964 · Mavis Varden

Where Love Has Gone

1964 · Mrs. Geraghty

1964 · Mrs. Raphael

The Brass Bottle

1964 · Martha Kenton

The Carpetbaggers

1964 · Reporter (uncredited)

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963 · Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

Petticoat Junction

1963 · Mrs. Elliott

1962 · Minerva Lewis

National Velvet

1960 · Martha Brown

1959 · Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)

Bourbon Street Beat

1959 · Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

1959 · Mrs. Walker

Cast a Long Shadow

1959 · Ma Calvert

1959 · Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)

Riot in Juvenile Prison

1959 · Bess Monahan

1959 · Millie Darius

1958 · Grace Renny

The Donna Reed Show

1958 · Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)

Step Down to Terror

1958 · Mrs. Duprez

Voice in the Mirror

1958 · Mrs. Devlin

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

1958 · Mary Royce

Life Begins At 17

1958 · Virginia Peck

1958 · Edith Miller

Day of the Badman

1958 · Martha Mordigan

The Rawhide Trail

1958 · Mrs. Cartwright

The Female Animal

1957 · Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

Young and Dangerous

1957 · Mrs. Clara Clinton

Leave It to Beaver

1957 · Agnes Haskell

1957 · Claire Durell

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

1957 · Sarah Devlin (uncredited)

The Man Who Turned to Stone

1957 · Mrs. Ford

Official Detective

The Adventures of the Big Man

The Adventures of the Big Man

Matinee Theater

Rebel Without a Cause

1955 · Carol Stark

The Desperate Hours

1955 · Mrs. Walling

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Millionaire

1955 · Jane Costello

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954 · Mrs. Chadwick

The Bob Mathias Story

1954 · Lillian Mathias

Father Knows Best

1954 · Dorothy Tyler

The High and the Mighty

1954 · Clara Joseph

1954 · Child Psychiatrist

Public Defender

The Eddie Cantor Story

1953 · Lillian Edwards

Letter to Loretta

Island in the Sky

1953 · Moon's Wife (uncredited)

So This Is Love

1953 · Mrs. Moore

I Love Lucy: The Movie

1953 · Audience Member

1952 · Angela's Mother

The Ford Television Theatre

1952 · Sister Mary Greene

Cavalcade of America

1952 · Mrs. Honeyman

Four Star Playhouse

1952 · Welfare Woman

Adventures of Superman

The Rose Bowl Story

1952 · Mrs. Addie Burke

1952 · Mrs. Smith

Love Is Better Than Ever

1952 · Mrs. Levoy

Here Come the Nelsons

1952 · Clara Randolph

Chevron Theatre

Chevron Theatre

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The People Against O'Hara

1951 · Betty Clark, Policewoman

The Painted Hills

1951 · Martha Blake

Her First Romance

1951 · Mrs. Carrington

The Jack Benny Program

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

Lonely Heart Bandits

1950 · Nancy Crane

Never a Dull Moment

The Gene Autry Show

1950 · Aunt Lynn

No Sad Songs for Me

1950 · Louise Spears

1950 · Nurse (uncredited)

Rusty's Birthday

Rusty's Birthday

1949 · Ethel Mitchell

Beyond the Forest

1949 · Edith Williams

Holiday in Havana

1949 · Marge Henley

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

1949 · Mrs. Egan

The Lone Ranger

1949 · Sarah Yancy

The Kid from Cleveland

1949 · Emily Novak

1949 · Virginia Barton

1949 · Vera Thompson

The Fountainhead

1949 · Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

The Clay Pigeon

1949 · Nurse (uncredited)

He Walked by Night

1949 · Dispatcher (uncredited)

Rusty Saves a Life

1949 · Ethel Mitchell

1949 · Miss Rice

The Walls of Jericho

1948 · Gossip (uncredited)

1948 · Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

1948 · Ellie Blaine

1948 · Valerie (uncredited)

Rusty Leads the Way

1948 · Ethel Mitchell

1948 · Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

1948 · Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

The Return of the Whistler

Reaching from Heaven

1948 · Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

Road to the Big House

1947 · Agnes Clark

1947 · Mrs. Weaver

1947 · Hairdresser (uncredited)

The Son of Rusty

The Son of Rusty

1947 · Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

1947 · Doris Greene

The Crimson Key

1947 · Paris Wood

For the Love of Rusty

1947 · Ethel Mitchell

Fear in the Night

1947 · Lil Herlihy

Seven Were Saved

1947 · Mrs Rollin Hartley

My Favorite Brunette

1947 · Miss Rogers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946 · Bobbi St. John

Pride of the Marines

1945 · Ella Mae Merchant

Roughly Speaking

1945 · Alice Abbott

Here Come the Waves

I Love a Soldier

1944 · Jenny Butler

The Story of Dr. Wassell

1944 · Praying Woman (uncredited)

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

1944 · Helen Martin

Mr. Skeffington

1944 · Maria (uncredited)

1943 · Radio Kitty (uncredited)

Old Acquaintance

1943 · Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

Gildersleeve on Broadway

1943 · Matilda Brown

So Proudly We Hail

1943 · Lt. Betty Peterson

The More the Merrier

1943 · Miss Bilby (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous

1943 · Salesgirl (uncredited)

1943 · Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

1943 · Dorshka (Uncredited)

Smith of Minnesota

1942 · (uncredited)

Street of Chance

1942 · Miss Peabody

My Sister Eileen

1942 · Receptionist (uncredited)

Beyond the Blue Horizon

1942 · Margaret Chase (uncredited)

They All Kissed the Bride

1942 · Helena, the Maid

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 · Receptionist (uncredited)

1942 · Dorothy Melton

Blue, White and Perfect

1942 · Miss Hoffman

1941 · Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

The Kid from Kansas

1941 · Julie 'Smitty' Smith

1941 · Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

Sun Valley Serenade

1941 · Waitress (uncredited)

Criminals Within

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

1941 · Sheila Cobb

1941 · Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

Her First Romance

1940 · Student (uncredited)

Blondes and Blunders

1940 · Lillie Catlett

1940 · Mrs. Langdon

Glamour for Sale

1940 · Myrtle (uncredited)

Girls of the Road

1940 · 1st Nurse (uncredited)

Manhattan Heartbeat

1940 · Shop Girl's Friend

South of the Boudoir

1940 · Mrs. Charley Chase

Five Little Peppers at Home

His Girl Friday

1940 · Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

The Green Hornet

1940 · Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

Three Sappy People

1939 · The Countess (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

A Woman is the Judge

1939 · Luella (uncredited)

Skinny the Moocher

The Man They Could Not Hang

1939 · Betty Crawford

1939 · Nurse (uncredited)

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939 · Bridesmaid (uncredited)

The Chump Takes a Bump

1939 · Minnie Chase

1939 · Secretary Juror (uncredited)

1939 · Hamilton's Secretary

Homicide Bureau

Smashing the Spy Ring

1938 · Madelon Martin

1938 · Jean Andrews

A Doggone Mixup

1938 · Mrs. Langdon

1938 · Elsie Hazlip

The Spider's Web

1938 · Mason's Secretary

The Lady Objects

1938 · Miss Hollins

1938 · Anita Burton

You Can't Take It with You

1938 · Maggie O'Neill

Many Sappy Returns

1938 · Nurse (uncredited)

Halfway to Hollywood

Halfway to Hollywood

1938 · Mrs. Kennedy

1938 · Estelle

1938 · Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

1938 · Margie Blake

The Mind Needer

1938 · Mrs. Chase

Time Out for Trouble

1938 · Green's Secretary

Women in Prison

1937 · Telephone Girl (uncredited)

I'll Take Romance

1937 · Minor Role

1937 · Stewardess (uncredited)

1937 · Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1937 · Alice, Brophy's secretary

1937 · Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)

Devil's Playground

1937 · Bit Part

Red Lights Ahead

1936 · Mary Wallace

The Man Who Lived Twice

1936 · Nurse Cameron (uncredited)

1936 · Ann Jason

1936 · School Girl

Let's Sing Again

1936 · Alice Alba

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · Girl on Bus (uncredited)

The Little Red Schoolhouse

1936 · Mary Burke

Ring Around the Moon

1936 · Kay Duncan

Mary Burns, Fugitive

1935 · Reporter

1935 · Telegraph Clerk

One Exciting Adventure

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