Ann Doran

Ann Doran

Birthday: 1911-07-28
Deathday: 2000-09-19
Place of birth: Amarillo, Texas, USA
Also know as: Ann Lee Doran

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

Rebel Without a Cause

1955

As Carol Stark

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

As Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Blondie

1938

As Elsie Hazlip

Mr. Wise Guy

1942

As Dorothy Melton

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

As Girl on Bus (uncredited)

Pitfall

1948

As Maggie

My Sister Eileen

1942

As Receptionist (uncredited)

The Man They Could Not Hang

1939

As Betty Crawford

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

As Bobbi St. John

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

1958

As Mary Royce

You Can't Take It with You

1938

As Maggie O'Neill

Fear in the Night

1947

As Lil Herlihy

Blind Alley

1939

As Agnes

The Man Who Turned to Stone

1957

As Mrs. Ford

Street of Chance

1942

As Miss Peabody

The People Against O'Hara

1951

As Betty Clark, Policewoman

The Hired Hand

1971

As Mrs. Sorenson

Kitten with a Whip

1964

As Mavis Varden

Here Come the Waves

1944

As Ruth

Penny Serenade

1941

As Dotty 'Dot'

The Painted Hills

1951

As Martha Blake

The Snake Pit

1948

As Valerie

Gambling House

1950

As Della

The High and the Mighty

1954

As Clara Joseph

The Arrangement

1969

As Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

My Favorite Brunette

1947

As Miss Rogers

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

1941

As Sheila Cobb

Road to the Big House

1947

As Agnes Clark

Second Chance

1947

As Doris Greene

Voice in the Mirror

1958

As Mrs. Devlin

Pride of the Marines

1945

As Ella Mae Merchant

Once You Kiss a Stranger...

1969

As Lee's Mother

Where Love Has Gone

1964

As Mrs. Geraghty

Gildersleeve on Broadway

1943

As Matilda Brown

For the Love of Rusty

1947

As Ethel Mitchell

Girls of the Road

1940

As Jerry

Not With My Wife, You Don't

1966

As Doris Parker

Dead of Night

1977

As Mrs. McCauley

Rusty Saves a Life

1949

As Ethel Mitchell

Rusty Leads the Way

1948

As Ethel Mitchell

The Son of Rusty

1947

As Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

The Hostage

1967

As Miss Mabry

My Dog Rusty

1948

As Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

The Man Who Lived Twice

1936

As Nurse Cameron

Missing Girls

1936

As Ann Jason

Women in Prison

1938

As Maggie

Violent Road

1958

As Edith Miller

All Night Long

1981

As Grandmother Gibbons

Seven Were Saved

1947

As Mrs Rollin Hartley

Riding High

1950

As Nurse (uncredited)

So Proudly We Hail

1943

As Lt. Betty Peterson

Roughly Speaking

1945

As Alice Abbott

The Werewolf of Woodstock

1975

As Dora

Her First Romance

1951

As

Life Begins At 17

1958

As Virginia Peck

Lonely Heart Bandits

1950

As Nancy Crane

Let's Sing Again

1936

As Alice Alba

Cast a Long Shadow

1959

As Ma Calvert

Joy Ride

1958

As Grace Renny

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

1957

As Sarah Devlin

No Sad Songs for Me

1950

As Louise Spears

The Little Red Schoolhouse

1936

As Mary Burke

Red Lights Ahead

1936

As Mary Wallace

Rosie!

1967

As Lady on Witness Stand

The Family Nobody Wanted

1975

As Mrs. Kimberly

Criminals Within

1941

As Linda

The Female Animal

1958

As Nurse

Way Down East

1935

As Rosie

A Doggone Mixup

1938

As Mrs. Langdon

Here Come the Nelsons

1952

As Clara Randolph

Paula

1952

As Mrs. Smith

The Bob Mathias Story

1954

As Lillian Mathias

So This Is Love

1953

As Mrs. Moore

Rusty's Birthday

1949

As Ethel Mitchell

True to Life

1943

As Radio Kitty (uncredited)

I Love a Soldier

1944

As Jenny Butler

The Spider's Web

1938

As Mason's Secretary

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963

As Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

Magic Town

1947

As Mrs. Weaver

The More the Merrier

1943

As Miss Bilby (uncredited)

The Crimson Key

1947

As Paris Wood

One Last Fling

1949

As Vera Thompson

The Eddie Cantor Story

1953

As Lillian Edwards

Rattling Romeo

1939

As Judy

Hazard

1948

As Hospital Nurse

Sealed Verdict

1948

As Ellie Blaine

Palm Springs

1936

As School Girl

I'll Take Romance

1937

As Minor Role

Homicide Bureau

1939

As Nurse

The Kid from Cleveland

1949

As Emily Novak

Them!

1954

As Child Psychiatrist

Start Cheering

1938

As Green's Secretary

Devil's Playground

1937

As Bit Part

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

1944

As Helen Martin

Young and Dangerous

1957

As Mrs. Clara Clinton

Let Us Live

1939

As Secretary Juror (uncredited)

One Exciting Adventure

1934

As Girl

Coast Guard

1939

As Nurse (uncredited)

Sue My Lawyer

1938

As Anita Burton

Time Out for Trouble

1938

As Maisie

The Mind Needer

1938

As Mrs. Chase

The Return of the Whistler

1948

As Sybil

Riot in Juvenile Prison

1959

As Bess Monahan

The Hard Way

1943

As Dorshka (Uncredited)

Never a Dull Moment

1950

As Jean

Cold Turkey

1940

As Mrs. Langdon

The Lady Objects

1938

As Miss Hollins

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939

As Bridesmaid (uncredited)

Her First Romance

1940

As Student (uncredited)

Advice to the Lovelorn

1981

As Ada Wells

All the Way Home

1981

As Great-Aunt Sadie

Untamed

1940

As 1st Nurse

Crazy Times

1981

As Mrs. Keagan

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

1977

As Grandma Lundy

Air Force

1943

As Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

The Rawhide Trail

1958

As Mrs. Cartwright

The Brass Bottle

1964

As Martha Kenton

Little Mo

1978

As Aunt Gert

Blue, White, and Perfect

1942

As Miss Hoffman

Island in the Sky

1953

As Moon's Wife (uncredited)

Beyond the Blue Horizon

1942

As Margaret Chase (uncredited)

His Girl Friday

1940

As Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

The Green Hornet

1940

As Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

City Streets

1938

As Nurse (uncredited)

Holiday in Havana

1949

As Marge Henley

Five Little Peppers at Home

1940

As Nurse

Reaching from Heaven

1948

As Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

Smith of Minnesota

1942

As (uncredited)

The Kid from Kansas

1941

As Julie 'Smitty' Smith

Love Is Better Than Ever

1952

As Mrs. Levoy

Rio Grande

1938

As Jean Andrews

Ring Around the Moon

1936

As Kay Duncan

The Carpetbaggers

1964

As Reporter

The Rose Bowl Story

1952

As Mrs. Addie Burke

Beyond the Forest

1949

As Edith Williams

Mary Burns, Fugitive

1935

As Reporter

Sun Valley Serenade

1941

As Waitress (uncredited)

The Story of Dr. Wassell

1944

As Praying Woman (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

1944

As Maria (uncredited)

Nothing Sacred

1937

As Telephone Girl (uncredited)

It's All Yours

1937

As Stewardess (uncredited)

The Walls of Jericho

1948

As Gossip (uncredited)

The Clay Pigeon

1949

As Nurse (uncredited)

Tomahawk

1951

As Mrs. Carrington

Wildcats

1986

As Mrs. Chatham

Weekend of Terror

1970

As Sister Nadine

No Minor Vices

1948

As Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

Day of the Badman

1958

As Martha Mordigan

Smashing the Spy Ring

1938

As Madelon Martin

New York Town

1941

As Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

Bombers B-52

1957

As Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

The Go-Getter

1937

As Maizie-the maid (uncredited)

Meet John Doe

1941

As Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

As Receptionist (uncredited)

Dive Bomber

1941

As Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous

1943

As Salesgirl (uncredited)

Glamour for Sale

1940

As Myrtle (uncredited)

Old Acquaintance

1943

As Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

They All Kissed the Bride

1942

As Helena, the Maid

A Summer Place

1959

As Mrs. Talbert

The Fountainhead

1949

As Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

Skinny the Moocher

1939

As Ann

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970

As Mrs. Lomax

The Desperate Hours

1955

As Mrs. Walling

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

1949

As Mrs. Egan

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

1974

As Secretary

Stella Dallas

1937

As Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Extortion

1938

As Margie Blake

Blondes and Blunders

1940

As Lillie Catlett

Many Sappy Returns

1938

As Mary

Pie a la Maid

1938

As Mary

The Last Angry Man

1974

As Nurse Whitbread

The Gumball Rally

1976

As Mrs. Ontley

Flood!

1977

As Emma Fisher

Air Hostess

1949

As Virginia Barton

He Walked by Night

1949

As Dispatcher (uncredited)

Live a Little, Love a Little

1968

As Landlady (uncredited)

Flying G-Men

1939

As Hamilton's Secretary

The Chump Takes a Bump

1939

As Minnie Chase

South of the Boudoir

1940

As Mrs. Charley Chase

First Monday in October

1981

As Storekeeper

Girls Can Play

1937

As Alice, Brophy's secretary

The Failing of Raymond

1971

As Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

City Story

1954

As

The Accused

1949

As Miss Rice

Manhattan Heartbeat

1940

As Shop Girl's Friend

Holiday

1938

As Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

A Woman is the Judge

1939

As Luella (uncredited)

Topaz

1969

As Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

Three Sappy People

1939

As The Countess (uncredited)

The FBI Story

1959

As Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

Variety Girl

1947

As Hairdresser (uncredited)

Step Down to Terror

1958

As Mrs. Duprez