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