Cara Williams
Born: 1925-06-29 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 2021-12-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cara Williams was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the television series Pete and Gladys, which ran from 1960-1962 and for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.
Filmography
1978
- The One Man Jury as Nancy
1977
- The White Buffalo as Cassie Ollinger
1974
1971
- Doctors' Wives as Maggie Gray
1969
1964
- The Cara Williams Show as Cara Wilton/Bridges
1963
- The Man from the Diners' Club as Sugar Pye
1960
- Pete and Gladys as Gladys Porter
1959
- Never Steal Anything Small as Winnipeg Simmons
1958
- Naked City as Lois Heller
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Midge Rospond
- The Defiant Ones as Billy's mother
1957
- The Helen Morgan Story as Dolly Evans
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Irene West
- Meet Me in Las Vegas as Kelly Donavan
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mona Cameron
1954
- The Great Diamond Robbery as Maggie Drumman
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The Girl Next Door as Rosie Green
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Clara Appleby
1950
1949
- Suspense as Nellie
- Knock on Any Door as Nelly Watkins (uncredited)
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Sitting Pretty as Secretary (uncredited)
- The Saxon Charm as Dolly Humber
1947
- Boomerang! as Irene Nelson
1945
- Don Juan Quilligan as Fifth Ave. Florist Salesgirl
- The Spider as Wanda Vann
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Laura as Advertising Agency Employee (uncredited)
- Something for the Boys as Calhoun's Secretary (uncredited)
- In the Meantime, Darling as Ruby Mae Sayre
1943
- Happy Land as Gretchen Barry
1942
- Girls' Town as Ethel
1941
- Wide Open Town as Joan Stuart