Ann Doran
Born in Amarillo, Texas, USA — Jul 28 1911• Died Sep 19 2000
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Biography
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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Knots Landing
Mercy
Perry Mason
Claire Durell
Bewitched
Mrs. Raphael
Bonanza
Mrs. Walker
M*A*S*H
Meg Cratty
Mannix
Mrs. Moody
Adam-12
Martha
Magnum, P.I.
Sam Hunter's Mother
The A-Team
Nora
Lassie
Little House on the Prairie
Helen Tyler
The Virginian
Minerva Lewis
My Three Sons
Fantasy Island
Emma Howard
Petticoat Junction
Mrs. Elliott
Cannon
Emergency!
Matinee Theater
The Twilight Zone
Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")
Tales of the Unexpected
Mary Deacon
Simon & Simon
Ironside
Four Star Playhouse
Welfare Woman
The Odd Couple
Loretta Spoon
The Donna Reed Show
Rawhide
Millie Darius
Highway to Heaven
Mrs. Bradley
The Rookies
Leave It to Beaver
Agnes Haskell
The Lone Ranger
Sarah Yancy
The Jack Benny Program
Mother
Eight Is Enough
Hunter
Mrs. Rawling
The Mod Squad
Eva Styles
The Streets of San Francisco
The Ford Television Theatre
Sister Mary Greene
Father Knows Best
Dorothy Tyler
Cagney & Lacey
Alias Smith and Jones
Adventures of Superman
December Bride
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The Millionaire
Jane Costello
Public Defender
Cavalcade of America
Mrs. Honeyman
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Lux Video Theatre
Rose
Bourbon Street Beat
Letter to Loretta
Nurse
The Legend of Jesse James
Mrs. James
Them!
Child Psychiatrist
Hell Town
Maude
Chevron Theatre
The Whistler
Official Detective
National Velvet
Martha Brown
Lucas Tanner
Longstreet
Mrs. Kingston
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mrs. Chadwick
His Girl Friday
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
The Runaways
Shirley
Rebel Without a Cause
Carol Stark
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Amy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
The Hired Hand
Mrs. Sorenson
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Jean Wydell
Topaz
Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
We've Got Each Other
Wildcats
Mrs. Chatham
Mirage
Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)
The High and the Mighty
Clara Joseph
Mr. Skeffington
Maria (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Meet John Doe
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Pitfall
Maggie
You Can't Take It with You
Maggie O'Neill
He Walked by Night
Dispatcher (uncredited)
All Night Long
Grandmother Gibbons
Warlock
Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)
Variety Girl
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Air Force
Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
Dead of Night
Mrs. McCauley
Start Cheering
Green's Secretary
The Hard Way
Dorshka (Uncredited)
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Sarah Devlin (uncredited)
The Gumball Rally
Mrs. Ontley
Missing Girls
Ann Jason
So Proudly We Hail
Lt. Betty Peterson
The Female Animal
Nurse
The Badlanders
Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)
The FBI Story
Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
True to Life
Radio Kitty (uncredited)
Holiday
Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous
Salesgirl (uncredited)
The Accused
Miss Rice
Stella Dallas
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
The More the Merrier
Miss Bilby (uncredited)
The Desperate Hours
Mrs. Walling
Flood!
Emma Fisher
A Summer Place
Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)
The Snake Pit
Valerie (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Telephone Girl (uncredited)
Paula
Mrs. Smith
Captain Newman, M.D.
Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
City Story
Bombers B-52
Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
Island in the Sky
Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Cast a Long Shadow
Ma Calvert
Roughly Speaking
Alice Abbott
The Fountainhead
Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
Way Down East
Rosie
Crazy Times
Mrs. Keagan
Hazard
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Walls of Jericho
Gossip (uncredited)
Beyond the Forest
Edith Williams
Good Girls Go to Paris
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Blondie
Elsie Hazlip
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Receptionist (uncredited)
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Doris Parker
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Bobbi St. John
Bad Boy
Telegraph Clerk
No Minor Vices
Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
Old Acquaintance
Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
New York Town
Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Sheila Cobb
The Arrangement
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Rusty Leads the Way
Ethel Mitchell
Day of the Badman
Martha Mordigan
All the Way Home
Great-Aunt Sadie
The Return of the Whistler
Sybil
The Macahans
Grandma
Dive Bomber
Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
Blue, White, and Perfect
Miss Hoffman
Gambling House
Della
The Green Hornet
Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
Let Us Live
Secretary Juror (uncredited)
First Monday in October
Storekeeper
The Priest Killer
Harriet Miles
One Last Fling
Vera Thompson
Palm Springs
School Girl
No Sad Songs for Me
Louise Spears
Pride of the Marines
Ella Mae Merchant
They All Kissed the Bride
Helena, the Maid
I'll Take Romance
Minor Role
The People Against O'Hara
Betty Clark, Policewoman
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Praying Woman (uncredited)
Tomahawk
Mrs. Carrington
My Sister Eileen
Receptionist (uncredited)
Violent Road
Edith Miller
Advice to the Lovelorn
Ada Wells
My Dog Rusty
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
City Streets
Nurse (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Margaret Chase (uncredited)
Road to the Big House
Agnes Clark
There Was a Crooked Man...
Mrs. Lomax
Rosie!
Lady on Witness Stand
A Woman is the Judge
Luella (uncredited)
My Favorite Brunette
Miss Rogers
The Rose Bowl Story
Mrs. Addie Burke
Untamed
1st Nurse (uncredited)
Reaching from Heaven
Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
Fear in the Night
Lil Herlihy
Girls of the Road
Jerry
The Failing of Raymond
Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
The Carpetbaggers
Reporter (uncredited)
Where Love Has Gone
Mrs. Geraghty
Rio Grande
Jean Andrews
Penny Serenade
Dotty 'Dot'
Blind Alley
Agnes
Smashing the Spy Ring
Madelon Martin
Love Is Better Than Ever
Mrs. Levoy
Ring Around the Moon
Kay Duncan
Girls Can Play
Alice, Brophy's secretary
The Crimson Key
Paris Wood
The Man Who Lived Twice
Nurse Cameron (uncredited)
The Bob Mathias Story
Lillian Mathias
Here Come the Nelsons
Clara Randolph
Air Hostess
Virginia Barton
The Werewolf of Woodstock
Dora
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Secretary
So This Is Love
Mrs. Moore
I Love a Soldier
Jenny Butler
The Brass Bottle
Martha Kenton
The Hostage
Miss Mabry
The Adventures of the Big Man
Ellen
The Man They Could Not Hang
Betty Crawford
Here Come the Waves
Ruth
The Spider's Web
Mason's Secretary
Step Down to Terror
Mrs. Duprez
The Painted Hills
Martha Blake
One Exciting Adventure
Girl
Women in Prison
Maggie
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Lee's Mother
Riot in Juvenile Prison
Bess Monahan
Flying G-Men
Hamilton's Secretary
The Rawhide Trail
Mrs. Cartwright
Seven Were Saved
Mrs Rollin Hartley
Second Chance
Doris Greene
Magic Town
Mrs. Weaver
The Eddie Cantor Story
Lillian Edwards
Riding High
Nurse (uncredited)
Homicide Bureau
Nurse
Rusty Saves a Life
Ethel Mitchell
Rattling Romeo
Judy
The Lady Objects
Miss Hollins
The Last Angry Man
Nurse Whitbread
Her First Romance
Student (uncredited)
Sun Valley Serenade
Waitress (uncredited)
The Family Nobody Wanted
Mrs. Kimberly
Live a Little, Love a Little
Landlady (uncredited)
Coast Guard
Nurse (uncredited)
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Helen Martin
Pie a la Maid
Mary
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Mrs. Egan
Little Mo
Aunt Gert
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Mary Burke
The Kid from Kansas
Julie 'Smitty' Smith
Sue My Lawyer
Anita Burton
Never a Dull Moment
Jean
Scarecrow
Mistress Dodge
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Mrs. Ford
Street of Chance
Miss Peabody
Manhattan Heartbeat
Shop Girl's Friend
Glamour for Sale
Myrtle (uncredited)
Joy Ride
Grace Renny
Voice in the Mirror
Mrs. Devlin
Kitten with a Whip
Mavis Varden
Five Little Peppers at Home
Nurse
Red Lights Ahead
Mary Wallace
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Mary Royce
The Clay Pigeon
Nurse (uncredited)
Her First Romance
Three Sappy People
The Countess (uncredited)
The Kid from Cleveland
Emily Novak
Sealed Verdict
Ellie Blaine
Lonely Heart Bandits
Nancy Crane
South of the Boudoir
Mrs. Charley Chase
Devil's Playground
Bit Part
For the Love of Rusty
Ethel Mitchell
Young and Dangerous
Mrs. Clara Clinton
It's All Yours
Stewardess (uncredited)
Smith of Minnesota
(uncredited)
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Grandma Lundy
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Reporter
Cold Turkey
Mrs. Langdon
Highway Patrol
Estelle
Mr. Wise Guy
Dorothy Melton
Gildersleeve on Broadway
Matilda Brown
Extortion
Margie Blake
A Doggone Mixup
Mrs. Langdon
Holiday in Havana
Marge Henley
Time Out for Trouble
Maisie
Weekend of Terror
Sister Nadine
Skinny the Moocher
Ann
Life Begins At 17
Virginia Peck
The Mind Needer
Mrs. Chase
Criminals Within
Linda
The Son of Rusty
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
The Chump Takes a Bump
Minnie Chase
Many Sappy Returns
Mary
Let's Sing Again
Alice Alba
A Fair Chance
Human resources officer
Blondes and Blunders
Lillie Catlett
Rusty's Birthday
Ethel Mitchell