Ann Doran
Acting
Born: July 28, 1911 · Amarillo, Texas, USA
Died: September 19, 2000 (aged 89)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
The A-Team
1983
Little House on the Prairie
1974
His Girl Friday
1940
M*A*S*H
1972
Bewitched
1964
Bonanza
1959
Them!
1954
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Topaz
1969
Photos (1)
Movies (197)
A Summer Place
Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
Carol Stark
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
Maggie O'Neill
His Girl Friday
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
The High and the Mighty
Clara Joseph
Topaz
Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
Them!
Child Psychiatrist
Mr. Skeffington
Maria (uncredited)
So This Is Love
Mrs. Moore
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Wildcats
Mrs. Chatham
Warlock
Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)
There Was a Crooked Man...
Mrs. Lomax
My Sister Eileen
Receptionist (uncredited)
The Desperate Hours
Mrs. Walling
The Fountainhead
Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
The Gumball Rally
Mrs. Ontley
Mirage
Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)
The Hired Hand
Mrs. Sorenson
South of the Boudoir
Mrs. Charley Chase
Meet John Doe
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Receptionist (uncredited)
He Walked by Night
Dispatcher (uncredited)
Start Cheering
Green's Secretary
My Favorite Brunette
Miss Rogers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Bobbi St. John
The Arrangement
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Telephone Girl (uncredited)
The Snake Pit
Valerie (uncredited)
Air Force
Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
Holiday
Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Magic Town
Mrs. Weaver
Pitfall
Maggie
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Mary Royce
Live a Little, Love a Little
Landlady (uncredited)
The People Against O'Hara
Betty Clark, Policewoman
The Badlanders
Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)
Dive Bomber
Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
The More the Merrier
Miss Bilby (uncredited)
The Carpetbaggers
Reporter (uncredited)
Bombers B-52
Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
Captain Newman, M.D.
Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
So Proudly We Hail
Lt. Betty Peterson
Tomahawk
Mrs. Carrington
Stella Dallas
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
The Accused
Miss Rice
Penny Serenade
Dotty
Blue, White and Perfect
Miss Hoffman
Day of the Badman
Martha Mordigan
Fear in the Night
Lil Herlihy
Blondie
Elsie Hazlip
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Praying Woman (uncredited)
The FBI Story
Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
Island in the Sky
Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Doris Parker
Missing Girls
Ann Jason
Variety Girl
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Flood!
Emma Fisher
Paula
Mrs. Smith
The Female Animal
Nurse
All Night Long
Grandmother Gibbons
Let Us Live
Secretary Juror (uncredited)
Little Mo
Aunt Gert
Joy Ride
Grace Renny
Slightly Dangerous
Salesgirl (uncredited)
The Clay Pigeon
Nurse (uncredited)
Rattling Romeo
Judy
The Go-Getter
Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)
Never a Dull Moment
Jean
First Monday in October
Storekeeper
Violent Road
Edith Miller
Gambling House
Della
Cast a Long Shadow
Ma Calvert
They All Kissed the Bride
Helena, the Maid
Dead of Night
Mrs. McCauley
The Priest Killer
Harriet Miles
Way Down East
Rosie
The Walls of Jericho
Gossip (uncredited)
Kitten with a Whip
Mavis Varden
One Exciting Adventure
Girl
The Hostage
Miss Mabry
Sun Valley Serenade
Waitress (uncredited)
Sealed Verdict
Ellie Blaine
Old Acquaintance
Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
The Hard Way
Dorshka (Uncredited)
Where Love Has Gone
Mrs. Geraghty
Coast Guard
Nurse (uncredited)
Reaching from Heaven
Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
Riding High
Nurse (uncredited)
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Lee's Mother
Rusty Leads the Way
Ethel Mitchell
True to Life
Radio Kitty (uncredited)
Beyond the Forest
Edith Williams
Blind Alley
Agnes
I Love a Soldier
Jenny Butler
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Sheila Cobb
The Macahans
Grandma
The Last Angry Man
Nurse Whitbread
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Mrs. Egan
Pride of the Marines
Ella Mae Merchant
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Sarah Devlin (uncredited)
Bad Boy
Telegraph Clerk
The Rawhide Trail
Mrs. Cartwright
Voice in the Mirror
Mrs. Devlin
Rosie!
Lady on Witness Stand
New York Town
Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Secretary
Here Come the Waves
Ruth
City Streets
Nurse (uncredited)
The Crimson Key
Paris Wood
All the Way Home
Great-Aunt Sadie
Devil's Playground
Bit Part
Rusty Saves a Life
Ethel Mitchell
The Brass Bottle
Martha Kenton
The Green Hornet
Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
Weekend of Terror
Sister Nadine
Good Girls Go to Paris
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Mr. Wise Guy
Dorothy Melton
Step Down to Terror
Mrs. Duprez
The Man They Could Not Hang
Betty Crawford
Riot in Juvenile Prison
Bess Monahan
Love Is Better Than Ever
Mrs. Levoy
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Grandma Lundy
Crazy Times
Mrs. Keagan
The Man Who Lived Twice
Nurse Cameron (uncredited)
I'll Take Romance
Minor Role
The Spider's Web
Mason's Secretary
Advice to the Lovelorn
Ada Wells
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Helen Martin
Homicide Bureau
Nurse
No Sad Songs for Me
Louise Spears
The Painted Hills
Martha Blake
Ring Around the Moon
Kay Duncan
Untamed
1st Nurse (uncredited)
The Werewolf of Woodstock
Dora
Extortion
Margie Blake
The Lady Objects
Miss Hollins
The Failing of Raymond
Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
A Doggone Mixup
Mrs. Langdon
Hazard
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Family Nobody Wanted
Mrs. Kimberly
Flying G-Men
Hamilton's Secretary
Girls Can Play
Alice, Brophy's secretary
Lonely Heart Bandits
Nancy Crane
Rio Grande
Jean Andrews
Five Little Peppers at Home
Nurse
Pie a la Maid
Mary
No Minor Vices
Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
Young and Dangerous
Mrs. Clara Clinton
Glamour for Sale
Myrtle (uncredited)
Her First Romance
1951
Smashing the Spy Ring
Madelon Martin
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Mary Burke
My Dog Rusty
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
The Rose Bowl Story
Mrs. Addie Burke
Road to the Big House
Agnes Clark
Sue My Lawyer
Anita Burton
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Reporter
Here Come the Nelsons
Clara Randolph
Three Sappy People
The Countess (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Margaret Chase (uncredited)
Time Out for Trouble
Maisie
I Love Lucy: The Movie
Audience Member
Air Hostess
Virginia Barton
Seven Were Saved
Mrs Rollin Hartley
Palm Springs
School Girl
Women in Prison
Maggie
The Return of the Whistler
Sybil
The Eddie Cantor Story
Lillian Edwards
A Woman is the Judge
Luella (uncredited)
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Mrs. Ford
Girls of the Road
Jerry
Street of Chance
Miss Peabody
Skinny the Moocher
Ann
Gildersleeve on Broadway
Matilda Brown
The Kid from Kansas
Julie 'Smitty' Smith
Roughly Speaking
Alice Abbott
Second Chance
Doris Greene
The Kid from Cleveland
Emily Novak
Blondes and Blunders
Lillie Catlett
It's All Yours
Stewardess (uncredited)
Scarecrow
Mistress Dodge
Red Lights Ahead
Mary Wallace
The Bob Mathias Story
Lillian Mathias
Criminals Within
Linda
Her First Romance
Student (uncredited)
One Last Fling
Vera Thompson
The Chump Takes a Bump
Minnie Chase
Manhattan Heartbeat
Shop Girl's Friend
For the Love of Rusty
Ethel Mitchell
Let's Sing Again
Alice Alba
Smith of Minnesota
(uncredited)
Many Sappy Returns
Mary
Life Begins At 17
Virginia Peck
Holiday in Havana
Marge Henley
The Mind Needer
Mrs. Chase
TV Shows (87)
Perry Mason
Claire Durell · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Cornelia Slater · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Nell Wyatt · 1 eps
Lassie
1 eps
The A-Team
Nora · 1 eps
Ironside
2 eps
Ironside
Harriet Miles · 1 eps
Ironside
Marlene Whittaker · 1 eps
The Donna Reed Show
3 eps
Bonanza
Mrs. Walker · 1 eps
M*A*S*H
Meg Cratty · 1 eps
Magnum, P.I.
Sam Hunter's Mother · 1 eps
Bewitched
Mrs. Raphael · 2 eps
Simon & Simon
1 eps
Little House on the Prairie
Helen Tyler · 1 eps
Mannix
Mrs. Moody · 1 eps
Adam-12
Martha · 1 eps
Adam-12
Mrs. Kerry · 1 eps
The Virginian
Minerva Lewis · 1 eps
The Virginian
Maggie Hyeth · 1 eps
The Virginian
Reba · 1 eps
The Virginian
Mrs. Graves · 1 eps
The Virginian
Annie Thomas · 1 eps
Father Knows Best
Dorothy Tyler · 1 eps
Knots Landing
Mercy · 1 eps
Fantasy Island
Emma Howard · 1 eps
Fantasy Island
Mrs. Howard (uncredited) · 1 eps
My Three Sons
1 eps
Cagney & Lacey
1 eps
Hunter
Mrs. Rawling · 1 eps
Emergency!
Mrs. Perigrew · 2 eps
Rawhide
Millie Darius · 1 eps
Cannon
1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
Welfare Woman · 1 eps
Matinee Theater
1 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
2 eps
Leave It to Beaver
Agnes Haskell · 2 eps
The Twilight Zone
Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction") · 1 eps
The Lone Ranger
Sarah Yancy · 1 eps
Highway to Heaven
Mrs. Bradley · 2 eps
Petticoat Junction
Mrs. Elliott · 2 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Mary Deacon · 1 eps
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1 eps
The Millionaire
Jane Costello · 1 eps
The Millionaire
Mrs. Johnson · 1 eps
The Odd Couple
Loretta Spoon · 1 eps
Adventures of Superman
1 eps
Omnibus
Angela's Mother · 1 eps
The Jack Benny Program
Mother · 1 eps
The Rookies
1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
Sister Mary Greene · 1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
Sue · 1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
Marion · 1 eps
The Gene Autry Show
Aunt Lynn · 1 eps
The Gene Autry Show
Emma Connelly · 1 eps
Eight Is Enough
1 eps
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1 eps
December Bride
1 eps
Cavalcade of America
Mrs. Honeyman · 1 eps
Cavalcade of America
Caroline · 1 eps
Cavalcade of America
1 eps
The Mod Squad
Eva Styles · 1 eps
Bourbon Street Beat
1 eps
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Nurse Stern · 1 eps
Public Defender
1 eps
The Legend of Jesse James
Mrs. James · 34 eps
Longstreet
Mrs. Kingston · 23 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mrs. Chadwick · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
Christine Briggs (uncredited) · 1 eps
Official Detective
1 eps
The Whistler
1 eps
National Velvet
Martha Brown · 58 eps
Hell Town
Maude · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Nurse · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Ginny Tucker · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Mrs. Harrison · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Anne Thomas · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Felice Badt · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Leona Garner · 1 eps
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Jean Wydell · 1 eps
We've Got Each Other
1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Amy · 1 eps
The Runaways
1 eps
Lucas Tanner
1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell · 1 eps