
Ann Doran
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Credits

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Carol Stark

The High and the Mighty (1954)
as Clara Joseph

A Summer Place (1959)
as Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

His Girl Friday (1940)
as Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
as Maggie O'Neill

Them! (1954)
as Child Psychiatrist

Topaz (1969)
as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
as Girl on Bus (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as Maria (uncredited)

Wildcats (1986)
as Mrs. Chatham

Warlock (1959)
as Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)

The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Mrs. Walling

The Fountainhead (1949)
as Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

He Walked by Night (1949)
as Dispatcher (uncredited)

The Gumball Rally (1976)
as Mrs. Ontley

There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
as Mrs. Lomax

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
as Bobbi St. John

Magic Town (1947)
as Mrs. Weaver

Meet John Doe (1941)
as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

The Snake Pit (1948)
as Valerie (uncredited)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

Holiday (1938)
as Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

Nothing Sacred (1937)
as Telephone Girl (uncredited)

Air Force (1943)
as Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

Mirage (1965)
as Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)

South of the Boudoir (1940)
as Mrs. Charley Chase

Penny Serenade (1941)
as Dotty

My Favorite Brunette (1947)
as Miss Rogers

Missing Girls (1936)
as Ann Jason

Pitfall (1948)
as Maggie

The Arrangement (1969)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

The More the Merrier (1943)
as Miss Bilby (uncredited)

Blondie (1938)
as Elsie Hazlip

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
as Mary Royce

The Badlanders (1958)
as Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)

Bombers B-52 (1957)
as Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

Not With My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
as Doris Parker

The FBI Story (1959)
as Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
as Reporter (uncredited)

Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
as Landlady (uncredited)

Stella Dallas (1937)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Start Cheering (1938)
as Green's Secretary

All Night Long (1981)
as Grandmother Gibbons

Dive Bomber (1941)
as Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

The People Against O'Hara (1951)
as Betty Clark, Policewoman

The Accused (1949)
as Miss Rice

Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
as Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
Cold Turkey (1940)
as Mrs. Langdon

Variety Girl (1947)
as Hairdresser (uncredited)

Flood! (1977)
as Emma Fisher

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
as Praying Woman (uncredited)

Island in the Sky (1953)
as Moon's Wife (uncredited)

So Proudly We Hail (1943)
as Lt. Betty Peterson

Tomahawk (1951)
as Mrs. Carrington

The Hired Hand (1971)
as Mrs. Sorenson

The Female Animal (1958)
as Nurse

Paula (1952)
as Mrs. Smith

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
as Helena, the Maid

Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Ma Calvert

Little Mo (1978)
as Aunt Gert

Way Down East (1935)
as Rosie

First Monday in October (1981)
as Storekeeper

Rattling Romeo (1939)
as Judy

Joy Ride (1958)
as Grace Renny

Dead of Night (1977)
as Mrs. McCauley

The Clay Pigeon (1949)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Let Us Live (1939)
as Secretary Juror (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Salesgirl (uncredited)

The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
as Betty Crawford

Kitten with a Whip (1964)
as Mavis Varden

Beyond the Forest (1949)
as Edith Williams

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
as Mrs. Egan

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
as Waitress (uncredited)

City Streets (1938)
as Nurse (uncredited)

The Walls of Jericho (1948)
as Gossip (uncredited)

The Priest Killer (1971)
as Harriet Miles

Pride of the Marines (1945)
as Ella Mae Merchant

Coast Guard (1939)
as Nurse (uncredited)

The Hard Way (1943)
as Dorshka (Uncredited)

Blind Alley (1939)
as Agnes

Reaching from Heaven (1948)
as Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend (1957)
as Sarah Devlin (uncredited)

Gambling House (1950)
as Della

Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969)
as Lee's Mother

Violent Road (1958)
as Edith Miller

Riding High (1950)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Here Come the Waves (1944)
as Ruth

All the Way Home (1981)
as Great-Aunt Sadie

The Macahans (1976)
as Grandma

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
as Secretary

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)

One Exciting Adventure (1934)
as Girl

The Go-Getter (1937)
as Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)

The Rawhide Trail (1958)
as Mrs. Cartwright

Where Love Has Gone (1964)
as Mrs. Geraghty

My Sister Eileen (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Martha Kenton

Ring Around the Moon (1936)
as Kay Duncan

The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
as Nurse Cameron (uncredited)

Day of the Badman (1958)
as Martha Mordigan

Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
as Mrs. Levoy

So This Is Love (1953)
as Mrs. Moore

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
as Miss Hoffman

True to Life (1943)
as Radio Kitty (uncredited)

Fear in the Night (1947)
as Lil Herlihy

Crazy Times (1981)
as Mrs. Keagan

The Painted Hills (1951)
as Martha Blake

Rusty Saves a Life (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Old Acquaintance (1943)
as Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
The Son of Rusty (1947)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
as Margaret Chase (uncredited)

Glamour for Sale (1940)
as Myrtle (uncredited)

The Green Hornet (1940)
as Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

Step Down to Terror (1958)
as Mrs. Duprez

Advice to the Lovelorn (1981)
as Ada Wells

The Last Angry Man (1974)
as Nurse Whitbread

The Spider's Web (1938)
as Mason's Secretary

Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Jean

No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
as Louise Spears

I Love a Soldier (1944)
as Jenny Butler

Her First Romance (1951)
Actor

Sue My Lawyer (1938)
as Anita Burton

Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
as Clara Randolph

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)
as Sheila Cobb

I'll Take Romance (1937)
as Minor Role

The Crimson Key (1947)
as Paris Wood

The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
as Mrs. Addie Burke

Pie a la Maid (1938)
as Mary

The Failing of Raymond (1971)
as Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

New York Town (1941)
as Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

No Minor Vices (1948)
as Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
as Dorothy Melton

Bad Boy (1935)
as Telegraph Clerk

Homicide Bureau (1939)
as Nurse

My Dog Rusty (1948)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

Street of Chance (1942)
as Miss Peabody

Time Out for Trouble (1938)
as Maisie

Women in Prison (1938)
as Maggie

Roughly Speaking (1945)
as Alice Abbott

Rosie! (1967)
as Lady on Witness Stand

The Hostage (1967)
as Miss Mabry

Palm Springs (1936)
as School Girl

Voice in the Mirror (1958)
as Mrs. Devlin

The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Sybil

Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
as Bess Monahan

The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975)
as Dora

Devil's Playground (1937)
as Bit Part

Untamed (1940)
as 1st Nurse (uncredited)

Sealed Verdict (1948)
as Ellie Blaine

Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)
as Madelon Martin

A Woman is the Judge (1939)
as Luella (uncredited)

Weekend of Terror (1970)
as Sister Nadine

Young and Dangerous (1957)
as Mrs. Clara Clinton

Seven Were Saved (1947)
as Mrs Rollin Hartley

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)
as Nancy Crane

Skinny the Moocher (1939)
as Ann

Hazard (1948)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

The Kid from Cleveland (1949)
as Emily Novak

A Doggone Mixup (1938)
as Mrs. Langdon

Three Sappy People (1939)
as The Countess (uncredited)

The Lady Objects (1938)
as Miss Hollins

The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
as Mrs. Ford

Girls of the Road (1940)
as Jerry

Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
as Shop Girl's Friend

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
as Lillian Edwards

Air Hostess (1949)
as Virginia Barton

The Bob Mathias Story (1954)
as Lillian Mathias

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Reporter

Rusty Leads the Way (1948)
as Ethel Mitchell

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
as Nurse

Her First Romance (1940)
as Student (uncredited)

Extortion (1938)
as Margie Blake

Road to the Big House (1947)
as Agnes Clark

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (1977)
as Grandma Lundy

The Kid from Kansas (1941)
as Julie 'Smitty' Smith

Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
as Matilda Brown

Scarecrow (1972)
as Mistress Dodge
City Story (1954)
Actor

It's All Yours (1937)
as Stewardess (uncredited)

Girls Can Play (1937)
as Alice, Brophy's secretary

I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
as Audience Member

Flying G-Men (1939)
as Hamilton's Secretary

One Last Fling (1949)
as Vera Thompson
Halfway to Hollywood (1938)
as Mrs. Kennedy

Rio Grande (1938)
as Jean Andrews

The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
as Mrs. Kimberly

Red Lights Ahead (1936)
as Mary Wallace

Blondes and Blunders (1940)
as Lillie Catlett
A Fair Chance (1954)
as Human resources officer

Smith of Minnesota (1942)
as (uncredited)

The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
as Mary Burke

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944)
as Helen Martin

Life Begins At 17 (1958)
as Virginia Peck

Second Chance (1947)
as Doris Greene

The Chump Takes a Bump (1939)
as Minnie Chase

Let's Sing Again (1936)
as Alice Alba
Rusty's Birthday (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Criminals Within (1941)
as Linda

For the Love of Rusty (1947)
as Ethel Mitchell

The Mind Needer (1938)
as Mrs. Chase
Highway Patrol (1938)
as Estelle

Holiday in Havana (1949)
as Marge Henley

Many Sappy Returns (1938)
as Mary





