Ann Doran
Born: 1911-07-28 in Amarillo, Texas, USA
Died: 2000-09-19
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1986
- Wildcats as Mrs. Chatham
1985
- The Twilight Zone as Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")
- Hell Town as Maude
1984
- Hunter as Mrs. Rawling
- Highway to Heaven as Mrs. Bradley
1983
- The A-Team as Nora
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1982
1981
- Simon & Simon
- All Night Long as Grandmother Gibbons
- All the Way Home as Great-Aunt Sadie
- Crazy Times as Mrs. Keagan
- First Monday in October as Storekeeper
- Advice to the Lovelorn as Ada Wells
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Sam Hunter's Mother
1979
- Knots Landing as Mercy
- Tales of the Unexpected as Mary Deacon
- Shirley
1978
- Fantasy Island as Emma Howard
- The Runaways
- Little Mo as Aunt Gert
1977
- Eight Is Enough
- We've Got Each Other
- Dead of Night as Mrs. McCauley
- Flood! as Emma Fisher
- Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion as Grandma Lundy
1976
- The Gumball Rally as Mrs. Ontley
- The Macahans as Grandma
1975
- The Family Nobody Wanted as Mrs. Kimberly
- The Werewolf of Woodstock as Dora
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Helen Tyler
- Lucas Tanner
- The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd as Secretary
- The Last Angry Man as Nurse Whitbread
1972
- M*A*S*H as Meg Cratty
- Emergency!
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Scarecrow as Mistress Dodge
1971
- Cannon
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Longstreet as Mrs. Kingston
- The Hired Hand as Mrs. Sorenson
- The Priest Killer as Harriet Miles
- The Failing of Raymond as Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1970
- The Odd Couple as Loretta Spoon
- The Bold Ones: The Senator as Jean Wydell
- There Was a Crooked Man... as Mrs. Lomax
- Weekend of Terror as Sister Nadine
1969
- Topaz as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
- The Arrangement as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- Once You Kiss a Stranger... as Lee's Mother
1968
- Adam-12 as Martha
- The Mod Squad as Eva Styles
- Live a Little, Love a Little as Landlady (uncredited)
1967
- Mannix as Mrs. Moody
- Ironside
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Rosie! as Lady on Witness Stand
- The Hostage as Miss Mabry
1966
- Not With My Wife, You Don't! as Doris Parker
1965
- The Legend of Jesse James as Mrs. James
- Mirage as Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)
1964
- Bewitched as Mrs. Raphael
- The Carpetbaggers as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Brass Bottle as Martha Kenton
- Where Love Has Gone as Mrs. Geraghty
- Kitten with a Whip as Mavis Varden
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Mrs. Elliott
- Captain Newman, M.D. as Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
1962
- The Virginian as Minerva Lewis
1960
- My Three Sons
- National Velvet as Martha Brown
1959
- Bonanza as Mrs. Walker
- Rawhide as Millie Darius
- Bourbon Street Beat
- Warlock as Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)
- A Summer Place as Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)
- The FBI Story as Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
- Cast a Long Shadow as Ma Calvert
- Riot in Juvenile Prison as Bess Monahan
1958
- The Donna Reed Show
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space as Mary Royce
- The Badlanders as Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)
- Day of the Badman as Martha Mordigan
- The Female Animal as Nurse
- Voice in the Mirror as Mrs. Devlin
- Violent Road as Edith Miller
- Step Down to Terror as Mrs. Duprez
- Joy Ride as Grace Renny
- Life Begins At 17 as Virginia Peck
- The Rawhide Trail as Mrs. Cartwright
1957
- Perry Mason as Claire Durell
- Leave It to Beaver as Agnes Haskell
- Official Detective
- Bombers B-52 as Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
- Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend as Sarah Devlin (uncredited)
- The Man Who Turned to Stone as Mrs. Ford
- Young and Dangerous as Mrs. Clara Clinton
1956
- The Adventures of the Big Man as Ellen
1955
- Matinee Theater
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- The Millionaire as Jane Costello
- Rebel Without a Cause as Carol Stark
- The Desperate Hours as Mrs. Walling
1954
- Lassie
- Father Knows Best as Dorothy Tyler
- December Bride
- Public Defender
- The Whistler
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mrs. Chadwick
- Them! as Child Psychiatrist
- The High and the Mighty as Clara Joseph
- The Bob Mathias Story as Lillian Mathias
- City Story
- A Fair Chance as Human resources officer
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Nurse
- Island in the Sky as Moon's Wife (uncredited)
- So This Is Love as Mrs. Moore
- The Eddie Cantor Story as Lillian Edwards
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Welfare Woman
- Omnibus as Angela's Mother
- Adventures of Superman
- The Ford Television Theatre as Sister Mary Greene
- Cavalcade of America as Mrs. Honeyman
- Chevron Theatre
- Love Is Better Than Ever as Mrs. Levoy
- Paula as Mrs. Smith
- The Rose Bowl Story as Mrs. Addie Burke
- Here Come the Nelsons as Clara Randolph
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Amy
- Tomahawk as Mrs. Carrington
- The Painted Hills as Martha Blake
- The People Against O'Hara as Betty Clark, Policewoman
- Her First Romance
1950
- The Jack Benny Program as Mother
- Lux Video Theatre as Rose
- Riding High as Nurse (uncredited)
- Gambling House as Della
- No Sad Songs for Me as Louise Spears
- Never a Dull Moment as Jean
- Lonely Heart Bandits as Nancy Crane
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Sarah Yancy
- The Fountainhead as Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
- He Walked by Night as Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Beyond the Forest as Edith Williams
- The Accused as Miss Rice
- Calamity Jane and Sam Bass as Mrs. Egan
- The Clay Pigeon as Nurse (uncredited)
- One Last Fling as Vera Thompson
- Rusty Saves a Life as Ethel Mitchell
- Air Hostess as Virginia Barton
- Rusty's Birthday as Ethel Mitchell
- Holiday in Havana as Marge Henley
- The Kid from Cleveland as Emily Novak
1948
- The Walls of Jericho as Gossip (uncredited)
- The Snake Pit as Valerie (uncredited)
- Pitfall as Maggie
- The Return of the Whistler as Sybil
- Hazard as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- Rusty Leads the Way as Ethel Mitchell
- Sealed Verdict as Ellie Blaine
- No Minor Vices as Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
- Reaching from Heaven as Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
- My Dog Rusty as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
1947
- My Favorite Brunette as Miss Rogers
- Variety Girl as Hairdresser (uncredited)
- Magic Town as Mrs. Weaver
- Fear in the Night as Lil Herlihy
- Second Chance as Doris Greene
- The Son of Rusty as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
- Road to the Big House as Agnes Clark
- Seven Were Saved as Mrs Rollin Hartley
- For the Love of Rusty as Ethel Mitchell
- The Crimson Key as Paris Wood
1946
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers as Bobbi St. John
1945
- Roughly Speaking as Alice Abbott
- Pride of the Marines as Ella Mae Merchant
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as Maria (uncredited)
- The Story of Dr. Wassell as Praying Woman (uncredited)
- Here Come the Waves as Ruth
- I Love a Soldier as Jenny Butler
- Henry Aldrich's Little Secret as Helen Martin
1943
- The More the Merrier as Miss Bilby (uncredited)
- Air Force as Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
- So Proudly We Hail as Lt. Betty Peterson
- The Hard Way as Dorshka (Uncredited)
- Old Acquaintance as Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
- Slightly Dangerous as Salesgirl (uncredited)
- Gildersleeve on Broadway as Matilda Brown
- True to Life as Radio Kitty (uncredited)
1942
- Yankee Doodle Dandy as Receptionist (uncredited)
- Mr. Wise Guy as Dorothy Melton
- My Sister Eileen as Receptionist (uncredited)
- Street of Chance as Miss Peabody
- Blue, White and Perfect as Miss Hoffman
- They All Kissed the Bride as Helena, the Maid
- Beyond the Blue Horizon as Margaret Chase (uncredited)
- Smith of Minnesota as (uncredited)
1941
- Meet John Doe as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
- Penny Serenade as Dotty 'Dot'
- Dive Bomber as Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
- Sun Valley Serenade as Waitress (uncredited)
- New York Town as Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
- Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery as Sheila Cobb
- Criminals Within as Linda
- The Kid from Kansas as Julie 'Smitty' Smith
1940
- His Girl Friday as Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
- Untamed as 1st Nurse (uncredited)
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Shop Girl's Friend
- Five Little Peppers at Home as Nurse
- Glamour for Sale as Myrtle (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet as Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
- Girls of the Road as Jerry
- Cold Turkey as Mrs. Langdon
- Her First Romance as Student (uncredited)
- South of the Boudoir as Mrs. Charley Chase
- Blondes and Blunders as Lillie Catlett
1939
- Let Us Live as Secretary Juror (uncredited)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
- Good Girls Go to Paris as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
- The Man They Could Not Hang as Betty Crawford
- Coast Guard as Nurse (uncredited)
- Blind Alley as Agnes
- Rattling Romeo as Judy
- Homicide Bureau as Nurse
- Three Sappy People as The Countess (uncredited)
- Flying G-Men as Hamilton's Secretary
- The Chump Takes a Bump as Minnie Chase
- Skinny the Moocher as Ann
- A Woman is the Judge as Luella (uncredited)
1938
- The Mind Needer as Mrs. Chase
- You Can't Take It with You as Maggie O'Neill
- Holiday as Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
- Blondie as Elsie Hazlip
- The Lady Objects as Miss Hollins
- The Spider's Web as Mason's Secretary
- Start Cheering as Green's Secretary
- City Streets as Nurse (uncredited)
- Extortion as Margie Blake
- Women in Prison as Maggie
- Time Out for Trouble as Maisie
- Pie a la Maid as Mary
- Highway Patrol as Estelle
- Smashing the Spy Ring as Madelon Martin
- A Doggone Mixup as Mrs. Langdon
- Rio Grande as Jean Andrews
- Sue My Lawyer as Anita Burton
- Many Sappy Returns as Mary
1937
- Stella Dallas as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- Nothing Sacred as Telephone Girl (uncredited)
- The Go-Getter as Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)
- Girls Can Play as Alice, Brophy's secretary
- Devil's Playground as Bit Part
- I'll Take Romance as Minor Role
- It's All Yours as Stewardess (uncredited)
1936
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Girl on Bus (uncredited)
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Nurse Cameron (uncredited)
- Palm Springs as School Girl
- Red Lights Ahead as Mary Wallace
- Let's Sing Again as Alice Alba
- Missing Girls as Ann Jason
- Ring Around the Moon as Kay Duncan
- The Little Red Schoolhouse as Mary Burke
1935
- Way Down East as Rosie
- Bad Boy as Telegraph Clerk
- Mary Burns, Fugitive as Reporter
1934
- One Exciting Adventure as Girl