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Ann Doran

Born
July 28, 1911
Died
September 19, 2000
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
Rebel Without a Cause
(1955)
Carol Stark
Them!
(1954)
Child Psychiatrist
His Girl Friday
(1940)
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Holiday
(1938)
Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Topaz
(1969)
Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939)
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Penny Serenade
(1941)
Dotty 'Dot'
The Fountainhead
(1949)
Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
He Walked by Night
(1949)
Dispatcher (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
(1938)
Maggie O'Neill
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1936)
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Wildcats
(1986)
Mrs. Chatham
The FBI Story
(1959)
Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
Meet John Doe
(1941)
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
The Gumball Rally
(1976)
Mrs. Ontley
The Desperate Hours
(1955)
Mrs. Walling
Full Filmography
Acting
One Exciting Adventure
(1934)
Girl
Way Down East
(1935)
Rosie
Mary Burns, Fugitive
(1935)
Reporter
Let's Sing Again
(1936)
Alice Alba
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1936)
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Red Lights Ahead
(1936)
Mary Wallace
The Little Red Schoolhouse
(1936)
Mary Burke
Palm Springs
(1936)
School Girl
Ring Around the Moon
(1936)
Kay Duncan
Missing Girls
(1936)
Ann Jason
The Man Who Lived Twice
(1936)
Nurse Cameron
I'll Take Romance
(1937)
Minor Role
Nothing Sacred
(1937)
Telephone Girl (uncredited)
Girls Can Play
(1937)
Alice, Brophy's secretary
Stella Dallas
(1937)
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Devil's Playground
(1937)
Bit Part
The Go-Getter
(1937)
Maizie-the maid (uncredited)
It's All Yours
(1937)
Stewardess (uncredited)
A Doggone Mixup
(1938)
Mrs. Langdon
You Can't Take It with You
(1938)
Maggie O'Neill
Holiday
(1938)
Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Extortion
(1938)
Margie Blake
Many Sappy Returns
(1938)
Mary
Start Cheering
(1938)
Green's Secretary
Blondie
(1938)
Elsie Hazlip
Time Out for Trouble
(1938)
Maisie
Women in Prison
(1938)
Maggie
The Mind Needer
(1938)
Mrs. Chase
City Streets
(1938)
Nurse (uncredited)
Pie a la Maid
(1938)
Mary
The Lady Objects
(1938)
Miss Hollins
Sue My Lawyer
(1938)
Anita Burton
The Spider's Web
(1938)
Mason's Secretary
Smashing the Spy Ring
(1938)
Madelon Martin
Rio Grande
(1938)
Jean Andrews
Rattling Romeo
(1939)
Judy
Coast Guard
(1939)
Nurse (uncredited)
Let Us Live
(1939)
Secretary Juror (uncredited)
Homicide Bureau
(1939)
Nurse
Flying G-Men
(1939)
Hamilton's Secretary
The Chump Takes a Bump
(1939)
Minnie Chase
Three Sappy People
(1939)
The Countess (uncredited)
Blind Alley
(1939)
Agnes
Skinny the Moocher
(1939)
Ann
The Man They Could Not Hang
(1939)
Betty Crawford
Good Girls Go to Paris
(1939)
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939)
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
A Woman is the Judge
(1939)
Luella (uncredited)
Girls of the Road
(1940)
Jerry
His Girl Friday
(1940)
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Five Little Peppers at Home
(1940)
Nurse
South of the Boudoir
(1940)
Mrs. Charley Chase
The Green Hornet
(1940)
Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
Untamed
(1940)
1st Nurse
Her First Romance
(1940)
Student (uncredited)
Manhattan Heartbeat
(1940)
Shop Girl's Friend
Blondes and Blunders
(1940)
Lillie Catlett
Cold Turkey
(1940)
Mrs. Langdon
Glamour for Sale
(1940)
Myrtle (uncredited)
New York Town
(1941)
Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
(1941)
Sheila Cobb
Penny Serenade
(1941)
Dotty 'Dot'
Meet John Doe
(1941)
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Criminals Within
(1941)
Linda
Sun Valley Serenade
(1941)
Waitress (uncredited)
The Kid from Kansas
(1941)
Julie 'Smitty' Smith
Dive Bomber
(1941)
Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942)
Receptionist (uncredited)
Blue, White, and Perfect
(1942)
Miss Hoffman
They All Kissed the Bride
(1942)
Helena, the Maid
Smith of Minnesota
(1942)
(uncredited)
Street of Chance
(1942)
Miss Peabody
My Sister Eileen
(1942)
Receptionist (uncredited)
Mr. Wise Guy
(1942)
Dorothy Melton
Beyond the Blue Horizon
(1942)
Margaret Chase (uncredited)
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
So Proudly We Hail
(1943)
Lt. Betty Peterson
Slightly Dangerous
(1943)
Salesgirl (uncredited)
The Hard Way
(1943)
Dorshka (Uncredited)
Gildersleeve on Broadway
(1943)
Matilda Brown
The More the Merrier
(1943)
Miss Bilby (uncredited)
Air Force
(1943)
Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
True to Life
(1943)
Radio Kitty (uncredited)
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
(1944)
Helen Martin
Here Come the Waves
(1944)
Ruth
The Story of Dr. Wassell
(1944)
Praying Woman (uncredited)
I Love a Soldier
(1944)
Jenny Butler
Mr. Skeffington
(1944)
Maria (uncredited)
Roughly Speaking
(1945)
Alice Abbott
Pride of the Marines
(1945)
Ella Mae Merchant
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(1946)
Bobbi St. John
Variety Girl
(1947)
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Seven Were Saved
(1947)
Mrs Rollin Hartley
For the Love of Rusty
(1947)
Ethel Mitchell
The Son of Rusty
(1947)
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
Second Chance
(1947)
Doris Greene
My Favorite Brunette
(1947)
Miss Rogers
Road to the Big House
(1947)
Agnes Clark
Fear in the Night
(1947)
Lil Herlihy
Magic Town
(1947)
Mrs. Weaver
The Crimson Key
(1947)
Paris Wood
Reaching from Heaven
(1948)
Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
My Dog Rusty
(1948)
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
No Minor Vices
(1948)
Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
Sealed Verdict
(1948)
Ellie Blaine
Hazard
(1948)
Hospital Nurse
The Return of the Whistler
(1948)
Sybil
The Walls of Jericho
(1948)
Gossip (uncredited)
Rusty Leads the Way
(1948)
Ethel Mitchell
The Snake Pit
(1948)
Valerie
Pitfall
(1948)
Maggie
The Kid from Cleveland
(1949)
Emily Novak
The Clay Pigeon
(1949)
Nurse (uncredited)
Beyond the Forest
(1949)
Edith Williams
One Last Fling
(1949)
Vera Thompson
Rusty's Birthday
(1949)
Ethel Mitchell
Rusty Saves a Life
(1949)
Ethel Mitchell
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
(1949)
Mrs. Egan
The Accused
(1949)
Miss Rice
He Walked by Night
(1949)
Dispatcher (uncredited)
Air Hostess
(1949)
Virginia Barton
Holiday in Havana
(1949)
Marge Henley
The Fountainhead
(1949)
Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
Never a Dull Moment
(1950)
Jean
No Sad Songs for Me
(1950)
Louise Spears
Riding High
(1950)
Nurse (uncredited)
Lonely Heart Bandits
(1950)
Nancy Crane
Gambling House
(1950)
Della
Her First Romance
(1951)
The Painted Hills
(1951)
Martha Blake
The People Against O'Hara
(1951)
Betty Clark, Policewoman
Tomahawk
(1951)
Mrs. Carrington
Paula
(1952)
Mrs. Smith
Here Come the Nelsons
(1952)
Clara Randolph
Love Is Better Than Ever
(1952)
Mrs. Levoy
The Rose Bowl Story
(1952)
Mrs. Addie Burke
The Eddie Cantor Story
(1953)
Lillian Edwards
So This Is Love
(1953)
Mrs. Moore
Island in the Sky
(1953)
Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Them!
(1954)
Child Psychiatrist
The Bob Mathias Story
(1954)
Lillian Mathias
City Story
(1954)
The High and the Mighty
(1954)
Clara Joseph
The Desperate Hours
(1955)
Mrs. Walling
Rebel Without a Cause
(1955)
Carol Stark
Young and Dangerous
(1957)
Mrs. Clara Clinton
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
(1957)
Sarah Devlin
Bombers B-52
(1957)
Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
The Man Who Turned to Stone
(1957)
Mrs. Ford
Joy Ride
(1958)
Grace Renny
Step Down to Terror
(1958)
Mrs. Duprez
Life Begins At 17
(1958)
Virginia Peck
Violent Road
(1958)
Edith Miller
The Female Animal
(1958)
Nurse
Voice in the Mirror
(1958)
Mrs. Devlin
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
(1958)
Mary Royce
Day of the Badman
(1958)
Martha Mordigan
The Rawhide Trail
(1958)
Mrs. Cartwright
Riot in Juvenile Prison
(1959)
Bess Monahan
Cast a Long Shadow
(1959)
Ma Calvert
A Summer Place
(1959)
Mrs. Talbert
The FBI Story
(1959)
Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
Captain Newman, M.D.
(1963)
Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
Where Love Has Gone
(1964)
Mrs. Geraghty
Kitten with a Whip
(1964)
Mavis Varden
The Carpetbaggers
(1964)
Reporter
The Brass Bottle
(1964)
Martha Kenton
Not With My Wife, You Don't
(1966)
Doris Parker
Rosie!
(1967)
Lady on Witness Stand
The Hostage
(1967)
Miss Mabry
Live a Little, Love a Little
(1968)
Landlady (uncredited)
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
(1969)
Lee's Mother
The Arrangement
(1969)
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Topaz
(1969)
Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
There Was a Crooked Man...
(1970)
Mrs. Lomax
Weekend of Terror
(1970)
Sister Nadine
The Failing of Raymond
(1971)
Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
The Hired Hand
(1971)
Mrs. Sorenson
The Last Angry Man
(1974)
Nurse Whitbread
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
(1974)
Secretary
The Family Nobody Wanted
(1975)
Mrs. Kimberly
The Werewolf of Woodstock
(1975)
Dora
The Gumball Rally
(1976)
Mrs. Ontley
Flood!
(1977)
Emma Fisher
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
(1977)
Grandma Lundy
Dead of Night
(1977)
Mrs. McCauley
Little Mo
(1978)
Aunt Gert
Crazy Times
(1981)
Mrs. Keagan
Advice to the Lovelorn
(1981)
Ada Wells
All the Way Home
(1981)
Great-Aunt Sadie
All Night Long
(1981)
Grandmother Gibbons
First Monday in October
(1981)
Storekeeper
Wildcats
(1986)
Mrs. Chatham
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