Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 28, 1911
Place of Birth:
Amarillo, Texas, USA
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Ann Doran
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Wildcats | Mrs. Chatham |
| 1981 | All Night Long | Grandmother Gibbons |
| 1981 | First Monday in October | Storekeeper |
| 1981 | All the Way Home | Great-Aunt Sadie |
| 1981 | Advice to the Lovelorn | Ada Wells |
| 1981 | Crazy Times | Mrs. Keagan |
| 1978 | Little Mo | Aunt Gert |
| 1977 | Dead of Night | Mrs. McCauley |
| 1977 | Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion | Grandma Lundy |
| 1977 | Flood! | Emma Fisher |
| 1976 | The Gumball Rally | Mrs. Ontley |
| 1976 | The Macahans | Grandma |
| 1975 | The Werewolf of Woodstock | Dora |
| 1975 | The Family Nobody Wanted | Mrs. Kimberly |
| 1974 | The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd | Secretary |
| 1974 | The Last Angry Man | Nurse Whitbread |
| 1971 | The Hired Hand | Mrs. Sorenson |
| 1971 | The Failing of Raymond | Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited) |
| 1971 | The Priest Killer | Harriet Miles |
| 1970 | Weekend of Terror | Sister Nadine |
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | Mrs. Lomax |
| 1969 | Topaz | Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited) |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1969 | Once You Kiss a Stranger... | Lee's Mother |
| 1968 | Live a Little, Love a Little | Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1967 | The Hostage | Miss Mabry |
| 1967 | Rosie! | Lady on Witness Stand |
| 1966 | Not With My Wife, You Don't! | Doris Parker |
| 1965 | Mirage | Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Kitten with a Whip | Mavis Varden |
| 1964 | Where Love Has Gone | Mrs. Geraghty |
| 1964 | The Brass Bottle | Martha Kenton |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers | Reporter |
| 1963 | Captain Newman, M.D. | Mrs. Pyser (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Cast a Long Shadow | Ma Calvert |
| 1959 | The FBI Story | Mrs. Ballard (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Riot in Juvenile Prison | Bess Monahan |
| 1959 | A Summer Place | Mrs. Talbert (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Warlock | Mrs. Richardson (uncredited) |
| 1958 | It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Mary Royce |
| 1958 | Voice in the Mirror | Mrs. Devlin |
| 1958 | Violent Road | Edith Miller |
| 1958 | Life Begins At 17 | Virginia Peck |
| 1958 | Joy Ride | Grace Renny |
| 1958 | The Female Animal | Nurse |
| 1958 | Step Down to Terror | Mrs. Duprez |
| 1958 | The Rawhide Trail | Mrs. Cartwright |
| 1958 | Day of the Badman | Martha Mordigan |
| 1958 | The Badlanders | Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited) |
| 1957 | The Man Who Turned to Stone | Mrs. Ford |
| 1957 | Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend | Sarah Devlin (uncredited) |
| 1957 | Young and Dangerous | Mrs. Clara Clinton |
| 1957 | Bombers B-52 | Sylvia Slater (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Rebel Without a Cause | Carol Stark |
| 1955 | The Desperate Hours | Mrs. Walling |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | Clara Joseph |
| 1954 | The Bob Mathias Story | Lillian Mathias |
| 1954 | City Story | |
| 1954 | Them! | Child Psychiatrist |
| 1954 | A Fair Chance | Human resources officer |
| 1953 | So This Is Love | Mrs. Moore |
| 1953 | The Eddie Cantor Story | Lillian Edwards |
| 1953 | Island in the Sky | Moon's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Love Is Better Than Ever | Mrs. Levoy |
| 1952 | Here Come the Nelsons | Clara Randolph |
| 1952 | Paula | Mrs. Smith |
| 1952 | The Rose Bowl Story | Mrs. Addie Burke |
| 1951 | The People Against O'Hara | Betty Clark, Policewoman |
| 1951 | The Painted Hills | Martha Blake |
| 1951 | Her First Romance | |
| 1951 | Tomahawk | Mrs. Carrington |
| 1950 | Gambling House | Della |
| 1950 | Riding High | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Lonely Heart Bandits | Nancy Crane |
| 1950 | No Sad Songs for Me | Louise Spears |
| 1950 | Never a Dull Moment | Jean |
| 1949 | Air Hostess | Virginia Barton |
| 1949 | He Walked by Night | Dispatcher (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Rusty Saves a Life | Ethel Mitchell |
| 1949 | Rusty's Birthday | Ethel Mitchell |
| 1949 | One Last Fling | Vera Thompson |
| 1949 | The Accused | Miss Rice |
| 1949 | The Kid from Cleveland | Emily Novak |
| 1949 | Holiday in Havana | Marge Henley |
| 1949 | Beyond the Forest | Edith Williams |
| 1949 | The Clay Pigeon | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Wynand's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass | Mrs. Egan |
| 1948 | Pitfall | Maggie |
| 1948 | The Snake Pit | Valerie |
| 1948 | Rusty Leads the Way | Ethel Mitchell |
| 1948 | My Dog Rusty | Mrs. Ethel Mitchell |
| 1948 | Hazard | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Sealed Verdict | Ellie Blaine |
| 1948 | The Return of the Whistler | Sybil |
| 1948 | Reaching from Heaven | Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran) |
| 1948 | The Walls of Jericho | Gossip (uncredited) |
| 1948 | No Minor Vices | Mrs. Faraday (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Fear in the Night | Lil Herlihy |
| 1947 | My Favorite Brunette | Miss Rogers |
| 1947 | Road to the Big House | Agnes Clark |
| 1947 | Second Chance | Doris Greene |
| 1947 | For the Love of Rusty | Ethel Mitchell |
| 1947 | The Son of Rusty | Mrs. Ethel Mitchell |
| 1947 | Seven Were Saved | Mrs Rollin Hartley |
| 1947 | Variety Girl | Hairdresser (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Magic Town | Mrs. Weaver |
| 1947 | The Crimson Key | Paris Wood |
| 1946 | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Bobbi St. John |
| 1945 | Pride of the Marines | Ella Mae Merchant |
| 1945 | Roughly Speaking | Alice Abbott |
| 1944 | Here Come the Waves | Ruth |
| 1944 | I Love a Soldier | Jenny Butler |
| 1944 | Henry Aldrich's Little Secret | Helen Martin |
| 1944 | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Praying Woman (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Maria (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Gildersleeve on Broadway | Matilda Brown |
| 1943 | So Proudly We Hail | Lt. Betty Peterson |
| 1943 | True to Life | Radio Kitty (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | Miss Bilby (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The Hard Way | Dorshka (Uncredited) |
| 1943 | Air Force | Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Slightly Dangerous | Salesgirl (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Old Acquaintance | Music Store Saleslady (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Mr. Wise Guy | Dorothy Melton |
| 1942 | My Sister Eileen | Receptionist (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Street of Chance | Miss Peabody |
| 1942 | Beyond the Blue Horizon | Margaret Chase (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Blue, White, and Perfect | Miss Hoffman |
| 1942 | Smith of Minnesota | (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Receptionist (uncredited) |
| 1942 | They All Kissed the Bride | Helena, the Maid |
| 1941 | Penny Serenade | Dotty 'Dot' |
| 1941 | Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery | Sheila Cobb |
| 1941 | Criminals Within | Linda |
| 1941 | The Kid from Kansas | Julie 'Smitty' Smith |
| 1941 | Sun Valley Serenade | Waitress (uncredited) |
| 1941 | New York Town | Demonstrator in Store (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Dive Bomber | Joe's Blind Date (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Meet John Doe | Mrs. Hansen (uncredited) |
| 1940 | South of the Boudoir | Mrs. Charley Chase |
| 1940 | Girls of the Road | Jerry |
| 1940 | Manhattan Heartbeat | Shop Girl's Friend |
| 1940 | Cold Turkey | Mrs. Langdon |
| 1940 | Her First Romance | Student (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Untamed | 1st Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Five Little Peppers at Home | Nurse |
| 1940 | His Girl Friday | Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Green Hornet | Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Glamour for Sale | Myrtle (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Blondes and Blunders | Lillie Catlett |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Paine's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Man They Could Not Hang | Betty Crawford |
| 1939 | Blind Alley | Agnes |
| 1939 | Three Sappy People | The Countess (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Flying G-Men | Hamilton's Secretary |
| 1939 | The Chump Takes a Bump | Minnie Chase |
| 1939 | Rattling Romeo | Judy |
| 1939 | Homicide Bureau | Nurse |
| 1939 | Let Us Live | Secretary Juror (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris | Bridesmaid (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Coast Guard | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1939 | A Woman is the Judge | Luella (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Skinny the Moocher | Ann |
| 1938 | Blondie | Elsie Hazlip |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It with You | Maggie O'Neill |
| 1938 | Women in Prison | Maggie |
| 1938 | A Doggone Mixup | Mrs. Langdon |
| 1938 | The Spider's Web | Mason's Secretary |
| 1938 | Start Cheering | Green's Secretary |
| 1938 | Sue My Lawyer | Anita Burton |
| 1938 | The Mind Needer | Mrs. Chase |
| 1938 | Time Out for Trouble | Maisie |
| 1938 | The Lady Objects | Miss Hollins |
| 1938 | Holiday | Kitchen Maid (uncredited) |
| 1938 | City Streets | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Highway Patrol | Estelle |
| 1938 | Rio Grande | Jean Andrews |
| 1938 | Smashing the Spy Ring | Madelon Martin |
| 1938 | Extortion | Margie Blake |
| 1938 | Pie a la Maid | Mary |
| 1938 | Many Sappy Returns | Mary |
| 1937 | Girls Can Play | Alice, Brophy's secretary |
| 1937 | I'll Take Romance | Minor Role |
| 1937 | Devil's Playground | Bit Part |
| 1937 | Nothing Sacred | Telephone Girl (uncredited) |
| 1937 | It's All Yours | Stewardess (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Go-Getter | Maizie, the Maid (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Stella Dallas | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Girl on Bus (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Man Who Lived Twice | Nurse Cameron (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Missing Girls | Ann Jason |
| 1936 | Let's Sing Again | Alice Alba |
| 1936 | The Little Red Schoolhouse | Mary Burke |
| 1936 | Red Lights Ahead | Mary Wallace |
| 1936 | Palm Springs | School Girl |
| 1936 | Ring Around the Moon | Kay Duncan |
| 1935 | Way Down East | Rosie |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Reporter |
| 1935 | Bad Boy | Telegraph Clerk |
| 1934 | One Exciting Adventure | Girl |