
Ann Doran
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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

Them! (1954)
as Child Psychiatrist

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Carol Stark

Topaz (1969)
as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

Warlock (1959)
as Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)

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

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

Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as Maria (uncredited)

Wildcats (1986)
as Mrs. Chatham

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

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

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

The Snake Pit (1948)
as Valerie (uncredited)

The High and the Mighty (1954)
as Clara Joseph

Holiday (1938)
as Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Mrs. Walling

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

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

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

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

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

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

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

The Gumball Rally (1976)
as Mrs. Ontley

Magic Town (1947)
as Mrs. Weaver

Blondie (1938)
as Elsie Hazlip

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

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

Flood! (1977)
as Emma Fisher

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

Dead of Night (1977)
as Mrs. McCauley

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

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

The Accused (1949)
as Miss Rice

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

Penny Serenade (1941)
as Dotty 'Dot'

Variety Girl (1947)
as Hairdresser (uncredited)

Nothing Sacred (1937)
as Telephone Girl (uncredited)

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

Start Cheering (1938)
as Green's Secretary

The Hard Way (1943)
as Dorshka (Uncredited)

Pitfall (1948)
as Maggie

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

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

Ring Around the Moon (1936)
as Kay Duncan

The Macahans (1976)
as Grandma

Gambling House (1950)
as Della

The Clay Pigeon (1949)
as Nurse (uncredited)

Crazy Times (1981)
as Mrs. Keagan

Day of the Badman (1958)
as Martha Mordigan

Tomahawk (1951)
as Mrs. Carrington

The Female Animal (1958)
as Nurse

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

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
as Reporter (uncredited)

Little Mo (1978)
as Aunt Gert

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

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

Paula (1952)
as Mrs. Smith

City Streets (1938)
as Nurse (uncredited)

All Night Long (1981)
as Grandmother Gibbons

My Favorite Brunette (1947)
as Miss Rogers

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

Coast Guard (1939)
as Nurse (uncredited)

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

Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
as Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

The Hostage (1967)
as Miss Mabry

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

Way Down East (1935)
as Rosie

The Hired Hand (1971)
as Mrs. Sorenson

The Arrangement (1969)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

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

Beyond the Forest (1949)
as Edith Williams

Kitten with a Whip (1964)
as Mavis Varden

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

Missing Girls (1936)
as Ann Jason

The Painted Hills (1951)
as Martha Blake

Riding High (1950)
as Nurse (uncredited)

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

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

Untamed (1940)
as 1st Nurse (uncredited)

Hazard (1948)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Salesgirl (uncredited)

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

Where Love Has Gone (1964)
as Mrs. Geraghty

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

Weekend of Terror (1970)
as Sister Nadine

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

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
as Waitress (uncredited)

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

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

Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Ma Calvert

Joy Ride (1958)
as Grace Renny

Violent Road (1958)
as Edith Miller

Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Jean

The Crimson Key (1947)
as Paris Wood

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

Blind Alley (1939)
as Agnes

Old Acquaintance (1943)
as Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

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

Bad Boy (1935)
as Telegraph Clerk

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

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

First Monday in October (1981)
as Storekeeper

So This Is Love (1953)
as Mrs. Moore

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

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

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

Advice to the Lovelorn (1981)
as Ada Wells

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

The Lady Objects (1938)
as Miss Hollins

The Priest Killer (1971)
as Harriet Miles

Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
as Clara Randolph

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
as Secretary

I Love a Soldier (1944)
as Jenny Butler

Rosie! (1967)
as Lady on Witness Stand

No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
as Louise Spears

Pride of the Marines (1945)
as Ella Mae Merchant

Homicide Bureau (1939)
as Nurse

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

My Sister Eileen (1942)
as Receptionist (uncredited)

Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
as Dorothy Melton

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

Time Out for Trouble (1938)
as Maisie

Fear in the Night (1947)
as Lil Herlihy

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Reporter

Voice in the Mirror (1958)
as Mrs. Devlin

Here Come the Waves (1944)
as Ruth

Sealed Verdict (1948)
as Ellie Blaine

Step Down to Terror (1958)
as Mrs. Duprez

Air Hostess (1949)
as Virginia Barton

One Exciting Adventure (1934)
as Girl

The Last Angry Man (1974)
as Nurse Whitbread

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

Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)
as Madelon Martin

I'll Take Romance (1937)
as Minor Role

Second Chance (1947)
as Doris Greene

Roughly Speaking (1945)
as Alice Abbott

The Rawhide Trail (1958)
as Mrs. Cartwright

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

Women in Prison (1938)
as Maggie
Halfway to Hollywood (1938)
as Mrs. Kennedy

Rattling Romeo (1939)
as Judy

The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Martha Kenton

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

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
as Nurse

Road to the Big House (1947)
as Agnes Clark

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
as Miss Hoffman

My Dog Rusty (1948)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
as Bess Monahan

Scarecrow (1972)
as Mistress Dodge
The Son of Rusty (1947)
as Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

Rusty Leads the Way (1948)
as Ethel Mitchell

Glamour for Sale (1940)
as Myrtle (uncredited)
Cold Turkey (1940)
as Mrs. Langdon

Palm Springs (1936)
as School Girl

Devil's Playground (1937)
as Bit Part

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

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

Skinny the Moocher (1939)
as Ann

The Kid from Cleveland (1949)
as Emily Novak

Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
as Shop Girl's Friend

A Doggone Mixup (1938)
as Mrs. Langdon

Her First Romance (1951)
Actor

Seven Were Saved (1947)
as Mrs Rollin Hartley

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

Girls of the Road (1940)
as Jerry

The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
as Mary Burke

One Last Fling (1949)
as Vera Thompson

Extortion (1938)
as Margie Blake

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

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)
as Nancy Crane

Street of Chance (1942)
as Miss Peabody

Rio Grande (1938)
as Jean Andrews
Highway Patrol (1938)
as Estelle

The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975)
as Dora

Young and Dangerous (1957)
as Mrs. Clara Clinton

Criminals Within (1941)
as Linda

The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
as Mrs. Kimberly

The Bob Mathias Story (1954)
as Lillian Mathias

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

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

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
as Lillian Edwards

For the Love of Rusty (1947)
as Ethel Mitchell

The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Sybil

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

Red Lights Ahead (1936)
as Mary Wallace

Her First Romance (1940)
as Student (uncredited)

Pie a la Maid (1938)
as Mary

Girls Can Play (1937)
as Alice, Brophy's secretary
A Fair Chance (1954)
as Human resources officer

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

Let's Sing Again (1936)
as Alice Alba

Sue My Lawyer (1938)
as Anita Burton

Rusty Saves a Life (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
as Matilda Brown

Life Begins At 17 (1958)
as Virginia Peck
City Story (1954)
Actor

Smith of Minnesota (1942)
as (uncredited)

The Chump Takes a Bump (1939)
as Minnie Chase

Holiday in Havana (1949)
as Marge Henley

The Mind Needer (1938)
as Mrs. Chase
Rusty's Birthday (1949)
as Ethel Mitchell

Blondes and Blunders (1940)
as Lillie Catlett

Many Sappy Returns (1938)
as Mary

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





