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Ann Doran

Born: 1911-07-28

From: Amarillo, Texas, USA

About: 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.

Film credits:

Rebel Without a Cause

Carol Stark

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Blondie

Elsie Hazlip

Topaz

Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

Air Hostess

Virginia Barton

Mr. Wise Guy

Dorothy Melton

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Girl on Bus (uncredited)

My Sister Eileen

Receptionist (uncredited)

Pitfall

Maggie

The Man They Could Not Hang

Betty Crawford

He Walked by Night

Dispatcher (uncredited)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Bobbi St. John

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Mary Royce

You Can't Take It with You

Maggie O'Neill

Fear in the Night

Lil Herlihy

Blind Alley

Agnes

The Man Who Turned to Stone

Mrs. Ford

The People Against O'Hara

Betty Clark, Policewoman

The Hired Hand

Mrs. Sorenson

Street of Chance

Miss Peabody

Live a Little, Love a Little

Landlady (uncredited)

Kitten with a Whip

Mavis Varden

Love Is Better Than Ever

Mrs. Levoy

Here Come the Waves

Ruth

Penny Serenade

Dotty 'Dot'

The Snake Pit

Valerie

The Painted Hills

Martha Blake

Three Sappy People

The Countess (uncredited)

Gambling House

Della

Flying G-Men

Hamilton's Secretary

The Chump Takes a Bump

Minnie Chase

South of the Boudoir

Mrs. Charley Chase

The High and the Mighty

Clara Joseph

My Favorite Brunette

Miss Rogers

The Arrangement

Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

Sheila Cobb

Road to the Big House

Agnes Clark

Second Chance

Doris Greene

Voice in the Mirror

Mrs. Devlin

Pride of the Marines

Ella Mae Merchant

Where Love Has Gone

Mrs. Geraghty

Gildersleeve on Broadway

Matilda Brown

Once You Kiss a Stranger...

Lee's Mother

For the Love of Rusty

Ethel Mitchell

Girls of the Road

Jerry

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

Doris Parker

Dead of Night

Mrs. McCauley

Rusty Leads the Way

Ethel Mitchell

Rusty Saves a Life

Ethel Mitchell

The Son of Rusty

Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

The Hostage

Miss Mabry

My Dog Rusty

Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

The Man Who Lived Twice

Nurse Cameron (uncredited)

Beyond the Blue Horizon

Margaret Chase (uncredited)

All Night Long

Grandmother Gibbons

Missing Girls

Ann Jason

Violent Road

Edith Miller

Women in Prison

Maggie

Seven Were Saved

Mrs Rollin Hartley

So Proudly We Hail

Lt. Betty Peterson

Riding High

Nurse (uncredited)

Roughly Speaking

Alice Abbott

The Werewolf of Woodstock

Dora

Lonely Heart Bandits

Nancy Crane

Her First Romance

Life Begins At 17

Virginia Peck

Let's Sing Again

Alice Alba

Cast a Long Shadow

Ma Calvert

First Monday in October

Storekeeper

Joy Ride

Grace Renny

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Sarah Devlin (uncredited)

The FBI Story

Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

No Sad Songs for Me

Louise Spears

Variety Girl

Hairdresser (uncredited)

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Mary Burke

Red Lights Ahead

Mary Wallace

Girls Can Play

Alice, Brophy's secretary

Rosie!

Lady on Witness Stand

The Family Nobody Wanted

Mrs. Kimberly

Criminals Within

Linda

A Doggone Mixup

Mrs. Langdon

Rusty's Birthday

Ethel Mitchell

Way Down East

Rosie

Here Come the Nelsons

Clara Randolph

The Female Animal

Nurse

Paula

Mrs. Smith

The Bob Mathias Story

Lillian Mathias

So This Is Love

Mrs. Moore

True to Life

Radio Kitty (uncredited)

I Love a Soldier

Jenny Butler

The Spider's Web

Mason's Secretary

Captain Newman, M.D.

Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

Magic Town

Mrs. Weaver

The More the Merrier

Miss Bilby (uncredited)

The Crimson Key

Paris Wood

The Failing of Raymond

Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

One Last Fling

Vera Thompson

The Eddie Cantor Story

Lillian Edwards

City Story

Rattling Romeo

Judy

The Accused

Miss Rice

Step Down to Terror

Mrs. Duprez

Hazard

Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Sealed Verdict

Ellie Blaine

Palm Springs

School Girl

I'll Take Romance

Minor Role

Homicide Bureau

Nurse

The Kid from Cleveland

Emily Novak

Them!

Child Psychiatrist

Start Cheering

Green's Secretary

Manhattan Heartbeat

Shop Girl's Friend

Devil's Playground

Bit Part

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

Helen Martin

Young and Dangerous

Mrs. Clara Clinton

Let Us Live

Secretary Juror (uncredited)

One Exciting Adventure

Girl

Good Girls Go to Paris

Bridesmaid (uncredited)

Coast Guard

Nurse (uncredited)

Sue My Lawyer

Anita Burton

Time Out for Trouble

Maisie

The Mind Needer

Mrs. Chase

The Return of the Whistler

Sybil

Riot in Juvenile Prison

Bess Monahan

The Hard Way

Dorshka (Uncredited)

Never a Dull Moment

Jean

The Lady Objects

Miss Hollins

Cold Turkey

Mrs. Langdon

Holiday

Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

Her First Romance

Student (uncredited)

All the Way Home

Great-Aunt Sadie

Advice to the Lovelorn

Ada Wells

Untamed

1st Nurse (uncredited)

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Grandma Lundy

Crazy Times

Mrs. Keagan

Air Force

Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

The Rawhide Trail

Mrs. Cartwright

A Woman is the Judge

Luella (uncredited)

The Brass Bottle

Martha Kenton

Little Mo

Aunt Gert

Blue, White, and Perfect

Miss Hoffman

Island in the Sky

Moon's Wife (uncredited)

Five Little Peppers at Home

Nurse

His Girl Friday

Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

The Green Hornet

Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

City Streets

Nurse (uncredited)

Holiday in Havana

Marge Henley

Reaching from Heaven

Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

Smith of Minnesota

(uncredited)

The Kid from Kansas

Julie 'Smitty' Smith

Highway Patrol

Estelle

A Summer Place

Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)

Rio Grande

Jean Andrews

Ring Around the Moon

Kay Duncan

The Rose Bowl Story

Mrs. Addie Burke

The Carpetbaggers

Reporter

Beyond the Forest

Edith Williams

Sun Valley Serenade

Waitress (uncredited)

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Reporter

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Praying Woman (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

Maria (uncredited)

Nothing Sacred

Telephone Girl (uncredited)

The Walls of Jericho

Gossip (uncredited)

It's All Yours

Stewardess (uncredited)

The Clay Pigeon

Nurse (uncredited)

Tomahawk

Mrs. Carrington

Wildcats

Mrs. Chatham

No Minor Vices

Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

Weekend of Terror

Sister Nadine

Day of the Badman

Martha Mordigan

Smashing the Spy Ring

Madelon Martin

New York Town

Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

Bombers B-52

Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

The Go-Getter

Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Receptionist (uncredited)

Dive Bomber

Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

Meet John Doe

Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous

Salesgirl (uncredited)

Glamour for Sale

Myrtle (uncredited)

Old Acquaintance

Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

They All Kissed the Bride

Helena, the Maid

The Fountainhead

Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

Skinny the Moocher

Ann

There Was a Crooked Man...

Mrs. Lomax

The Desperate Hours

Mrs. Walling

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Mrs. Egan

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

Secretary

Stella Dallas

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Extortion

Margie Blake

Blondes and Blunders

Lillie Catlett

Pie a la Maid

Mary

Many Sappy Returns

Mary

The Last Angry Man

Nurse Whitbread

The Gumball Rally

Mrs. Ontley

Flood!

Emma Fisher

Mirage

Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)

The Macahans

Grandma

Bad Boy

Telegraph Clerk

The Badlanders

Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)

A Fair Chance

Human resources officer

The Priest Killer

Harriet Miles

Warlock

Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)