Ann Doran
Acting • Born 1911-07-28 – Died 2000-09-19
Biography
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
289 credits
Rebel Without a Cause
Movie • 1955
Carol Stark
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Blondie
Movie • 1938
Elsie Hazlip
Topaz
Movie • 1969
Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
Air Hostess
Movie • 1949
Virginia Barton
Mr. Wise Guy
Movie • 1942
Dorothy Melton
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie • 1936
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen
Movie • 1942
Receptionist (uncredited)
Pitfall
Movie • 1948
Maggie
The Man They Could Not Hang
Movie • 1939
Betty Crawford
He Walked by Night
Movie • 1949
Dispatcher (uncredited)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Movie • 1946
Bobbi St. John
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Movie • 1958
Mary Royce
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Maggie O'Neill
Fear in the Night
Movie • 1947
Lil Herlihy
Blind Alley
Movie • 1939
Agnes
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Ford
The People Against O'Hara
Movie • 1951
Betty Clark, Policewoman
The Hired Hand
Movie • 1971
Mrs. Sorenson
Street of Chance
Movie • 1942
Miss Peabody
Live a Little, Love a Little
Movie • 1968
Landlady (uncredited)
Kitten with a Whip
Movie • 1964
Mavis Varden
Love Is Better Than Ever
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Levoy
Here Come the Waves
Movie • 1944
Ruth
Penny Serenade
Movie • 1941
Dotty 'Dot'
The Snake Pit
Movie • 1948
Valerie (uncredited)
The Painted Hills
Movie • 1951
Martha Blake
Three Sappy People
Movie • 1939
The Countess (uncredited)
Gambling House
Movie • 1950
Della
Flying G-Men
Movie • 1939
Hamilton's Secretary
The Chump Takes a Bump
Movie • 1939
Minnie Chase
South of the Boudoir
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Charley Chase
The High and the Mighty
Movie • 1954
Clara Joseph
My Favorite Brunette
Movie • 1947
Miss Rogers
The Arrangement
Movie • 1969
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Movie • 1941
Sheila Cobb
Road to the Big House
Movie • 1947
Agnes Clark
Second Chance
Movie • 1947
Doris Greene
Voice in the Mirror
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Devlin
Pride of the Marines
Movie • 1945
Ella Mae Merchant
Where Love Has Gone
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Geraghty
Gildersleeve on Broadway
Movie • 1943
Matilda Brown
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Movie • 1969
Lee's Mother
For the Love of Rusty
Movie • 1947
Ethel Mitchell
Girls of the Road
Movie • 1940
Jerry
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Movie • 1966
Doris Parker
Dead of Night
Movie • 1977
Mrs. McCauley
Rusty Leads the Way
Movie • 1948
Ethel Mitchell
Rusty Saves a Life
Movie • 1949
Ethel Mitchell
The Son of Rusty
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
The Hostage
Movie • 1967
Miss Mabry
My Dog Rusty
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
The Man Who Lived Twice
Movie • 1936
Nurse Cameron (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Movie • 1942
Margaret Chase (uncredited)
All Night Long
Movie • 1981
Grandmother Gibbons
Missing Girls
Movie • 1936
Ann Jason
Violent Road
Movie • 1958
Edith Miller
Women in Prison
Movie • 1938
Maggie
Seven Were Saved
Movie • 1947
Mrs Rollin Hartley
So Proudly We Hail
Movie • 1943
Lt. Betty Peterson
Riding High
Movie • 1950
Nurse (uncredited)
Roughly Speaking
Movie • 1945
Alice Abbott
The Werewolf of Woodstock
Movie • 1975
Dora
Lonely Heart Bandits
Movie • 1950
Nancy Crane
Her First Romance
Movie • 1951
Life Begins At 17
Movie • 1958
Virginia Peck
Let's Sing Again
Movie • 1936
Alice Alba
Cast a Long Shadow
Movie • 1959
Ma Calvert
First Monday in October
Movie • 1981
Storekeeper
Joy Ride
Movie • 1958
Grace Renny
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Movie • 1957
Sarah Devlin (uncredited)
The FBI Story
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
No Sad Songs for Me
Movie • 1950
Louise Spears
Variety Girl
Movie • 1947
Hairdresser (uncredited)
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Movie • 1936
Mary Burke
Red Lights Ahead
Movie • 1936
Mary Wallace
Girls Can Play
Movie • 1937
Alice, Brophy's secretary
Rosie!
Movie • 1967
Lady on Witness Stand
The Family Nobody Wanted
Movie • 1975
Mrs. Kimberly
Criminals Within
Movie • 1941
Linda
A Doggone Mixup
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Langdon
Rusty's Birthday
Movie • 1949
Ethel Mitchell
Way Down East
Movie • 1935
Rosie
Here Come the Nelsons
Movie • 1952
Clara Randolph
The Female Animal
Movie • 1958
Nurse
Paula
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Smith
The Bob Mathias Story
Movie • 1954
Lillian Mathias
So This Is Love
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Moore
True to Life
Movie • 1943
Radio Kitty (uncredited)
I Love a Soldier
Movie • 1944
Jenny Butler
The Spider's Web
Movie • 1938
Mason's Secretary
Captain Newman, M.D.
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
Magic Town
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Weaver
The More the Merrier
Movie • 1943
Miss Bilby (uncredited)
The Crimson Key
Movie • 1947
Paris Wood
The Failing of Raymond
Movie • 1971
Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
One Last Fling
Movie • 1949
Vera Thompson
The Eddie Cantor Story
Movie • 1953
Lillian Edwards
City Story
Movie • 1954
Rattling Romeo
Movie • 1939
Judy
The Accused
Movie • 1949
Miss Rice
Step Down to Terror
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Duprez
Hazard
Movie • 1948
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Sealed Verdict
Movie • 1948
Ellie Blaine
Palm Springs
Movie • 1936
School Girl
I'll Take Romance
Movie • 1937
Minor Role
Homicide Bureau
Movie • 1939
Nurse
The Kid from Cleveland
Movie • 1949
Emily Novak
Them!
Movie • 1954
Child Psychiatrist
Start Cheering
Movie • 1938
Green's Secretary
Manhattan Heartbeat
Movie • 1940
Shop Girl's Friend
Devil's Playground
Movie • 1937
Bit Part
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Movie • 1944
Helen Martin
Young and Dangerous
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Clara Clinton
Let Us Live
Movie • 1939
Secretary Juror (uncredited)
One Exciting Adventure
Movie • 1934
Girl
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie • 1939
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Coast Guard
Movie • 1939
Nurse (uncredited)
Sue My Lawyer
Movie • 1938
Anita Burton
Time Out for Trouble
Movie • 1938
Maisie
The Mind Needer
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Chase
The Return of the Whistler
Movie • 1948
Sybil
Riot in Juvenile Prison
Movie • 1959
Bess Monahan
The Hard Way
Movie • 1943
Dorshka (Uncredited)
Never a Dull Moment
Movie • 1950
Jean
The Lady Objects
Movie • 1938
Miss Hollins
Cold Turkey
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Langdon
Holiday
Movie • 1938
Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Her First Romance
Movie • 1940
Student (uncredited)
All the Way Home
Movie • 1981
Great-Aunt Sadie
Advice to the Lovelorn
Movie • 1981
Ada Wells
Untamed
Movie • 1940
1st Nurse (uncredited)
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Movie • 1977
Grandma Lundy
Crazy Times
Movie • 1981
Mrs. Keagan
Air Force
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
The Rawhide Trail
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Cartwright
A Woman is the Judge
Movie • 1939
Luella (uncredited)
The Brass Bottle
Movie • 1964
Martha Kenton
Little Mo
Movie • 1978
Aunt Gert
Blue, White, and Perfect
Movie • 1942
Miss Hoffman
Island in the Sky
Movie • 1953
Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Five Little Peppers at Home
Movie • 1940
Nurse
His Girl Friday
Movie • 1940
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
The Green Hornet
Movie • 1940
Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
City Streets
Movie • 1938
Nurse (uncredited)
Holiday in Havana
Movie • 1949
Marge Henley
Reaching from Heaven
Movie • 1948
Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
Smith of Minnesota
Movie • 1942
(uncredited)
The Kid from Kansas
Movie • 1941
Julie 'Smitty' Smith
Highway Patrol
Movie • 1938
Estelle
A Summer Place
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)
Rio Grande
Movie • 1938
Jean Andrews
Ring Around the Moon
Movie • 1936
Kay Duncan
The Rose Bowl Story
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Addie Burke
The Carpetbaggers
Movie • 1964
Reporter (uncredited)
Beyond the Forest
Movie • 1949
Edith Williams
Sun Valley Serenade
Movie • 1941
Waitress (uncredited)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie • 1935
Reporter
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Movie • 1944
Praying Woman (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington
Movie • 1944
Maria (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Movie • 1937
Telephone Girl (uncredited)
The Walls of Jericho
Movie • 1948
Gossip (uncredited)
It's All Yours
Movie • 1937
Stewardess (uncredited)
The Clay Pigeon
Movie • 1949
Nurse (uncredited)
Tomahawk
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Carrington
Wildcats
Movie • 1986
Mrs. Chatham
No Minor Vices
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
Weekend of Terror
Movie • 1970
Sister Nadine
Day of the Badman
Movie • 1958
Martha Mordigan
Smashing the Spy Ring
Movie • 1938
Madelon Martin
New York Town
Movie • 1941
Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
Bombers B-52
Movie • 1957
Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1937
Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Movie • 1942
Receptionist (uncredited)
Dive Bomber
Movie • 1941
Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
Meet John Doe
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous
Movie • 1943
Salesgirl (uncredited)
Glamour for Sale
Movie • 1940
Myrtle (uncredited)
Old Acquaintance
Movie • 1943
Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
They All Kissed the Bride
Movie • 1942
Helena, the Maid
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
Skinny the Moocher
Movie • 1939
Ann
There Was a Crooked Man...
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Lomax
The Desperate Hours
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Walling
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Egan
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Movie • 1974
Secretary
Stella Dallas
Movie • 1937
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Extortion
Movie • 1938
Margie Blake
Blondes and Blunders
Movie • 1940
Lillie Catlett
Pie a la Maid
Movie • 1938
Mary
Many Sappy Returns
Movie • 1938
Mary
The Last Angry Man
Movie • 1974
Nurse Whitbread
The Gumball Rally
Movie • 1976
Mrs. Ontley
Flood!
Movie • 1977
Emma Fisher
Mirage
Movie • 1965
Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)
The Macahans
Movie • 1976
Grandma
Bad Boy
Movie • 1935
Telegraph Clerk
The Badlanders
Movie • 1958
Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)
A Fair Chance
Movie • 1954
Human resources officer
The Priest Killer
Movie • 1971
Harriet Miles
Warlock
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)
Scarecrow
Movie • 1972
Mistress Dodge
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Sam Hunter's Mother
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Meg Cratty
The Rookies
TV • 1972
December Bride
TV • 1954
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Loretta Spoon
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Mary Deacon
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Mrs. Elliott
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Mercy
Longstreet
TV • 1971
Mrs. Kingston
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Claire Durell
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Mrs. Raphael
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Cannon
TV • 1971
Lassie
TV • 1954
Eight Is Enough
TV • 1977
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Martha
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell
Hunter
TV • 1984
Mrs. Rawling
Ironside
TV • 1967
Leave It to Beaver
TV • 1957
Agnes Haskell
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Millie Darius
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Jane Costello
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Minerva Lewis
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Rose
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Amy
Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Lucas Tanner
TV • 1974
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
National Velvet
TV • 1960
Martha Brown
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
The Whistler
TV • 1954
Public Defender
TV • 1954
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Mrs. Honeyman
Hell Town
TV • 1985
Maude
We've Got Each Other
TV • 1977
The Legend of Jesse James
TV • 1965
Mrs. James
Official Detective
TV • 1957
The Runaways
TV • 1978
Shirley
TV • 1979
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Nurse
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Maggie Hyeth
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mrs. Chadwick
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Reba
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Mrs. Graves
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ginny Tucker
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mrs. Harrison
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Anne Thomas
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Caroline
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mrs. Kerry
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Mrs. Johnson
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Felice Badt
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Leona Garner
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Welfare Woman
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Cornelia Slater
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Nell Wyatt
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Mrs. Bradley
The A-Team
TV • 1983
Nora
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Annie Thomas
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Mother
Ironside
TV • 1967
Harriet Miles
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Christine Briggs (uncredited)
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Angela's Mother
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Harriett
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Sister Mary Greene
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Sue
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV • 1970
Jean Wydell
Mannix
TV • 1967
Mrs. Moody
Fantasy Island
TV • 1978
Emma Howard
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Mrs. Walker
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Sarah Yancy
Chevron Theatre
TV • 1952
Ironside
TV • 1967
Marlene Whittaker
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Eva Styles
The Adventures of the Big Man
TV • 1956
Ellen
Father Knows Best
TV • 1954
Dorothy Tyler