Ann Doran

Acting

Born July 28, 1911, Amarillo, Texas, USA

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

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