Ann Doran

Ann Doran

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.

Wildcats
1986
Mrs. Chatham
All Night Long
1981
Grandmother Gibbons
First Monday in October
1981
Storekeeper
All the Way Home
1981
Great-Aunt Sadie
Advice to the Lovelorn
1981
Ada Wells
Crazy Times
1981
Mrs. Keagan
Little Mo
1978
Aunt Gert
Dead of Night
1977
Mrs. McCauley
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
Grandma Lundy
Flood!
1977
Emma Fisher
The Gumball Rally
1976
Mrs. Ontley
The Macahans
1976
Grandma
The Werewolf of Woodstock
1975
Dora
The Family Nobody Wanted
1975
Mrs. Kimberly
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1974
Secretary
The Last Angry Man
1974
Nurse Whitbread
The Hired Hand
1971
Mrs. Sorenson
The Failing of Raymond
1971
Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Weekend of Terror
1970
Sister Nadine
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
Mrs. Lomax
Topaz
1969
Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
The Arrangement
1969
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
1969
Lee's Mother
Live a Little, Love a Little
1968
Landlady (uncredited)
The Hostage
1967
Miss Mabry
Rosie!
1967
Lady on Witness Stand
Not With My Wife, You Don't
1966
Doris Parker
Mirage
1965
Kitten with a Whip
1964
Mavis Varden
Where Love Has Gone
1964
Mrs. Geraghty
The Brass Bottle
1964
Martha Kenton
The Carpetbaggers
1964
Reporter
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
Ma Calvert
The FBI Story
1959
Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
Riot in Juvenile Prison
1959
Bess Monahan
A Summer Place
1959
Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958
Mary Royce
Voice in the Mirror
1958
Mrs. Devlin
Violent Road
1958
Edith Miller
Life Begins At 17
1958
Virginia Peck
Joy Ride
1958
Grace Renny
The Female Animal
1958
Nurse
Step Down to Terror
1958
Mrs. Duprez
The Rawhide Trail
1958
Mrs. Cartwright
Day of the Badman
1958
Martha Mordigan
The Badlanders
1958
Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)
The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957
Mrs. Ford
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957
Sarah Devlin
Young and Dangerous
1957
Mrs. Clara Clinton
Bombers B-52
1957
Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Carol Stark
The Desperate Hours
1955
Mrs. Walling
The High and the Mighty
1954
Clara Joseph
The Bob Mathias Story
1954
Lillian Mathias
Them!
1954
Child Psychiatrist
So This Is Love
1953
Mrs. Moore
The Eddie Cantor Story
1953
Lillian Edwards
Island in the Sky
1953
Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Love Is Better Than Ever
1952
Mrs. Levoy
Here Come the Nelsons
1952
Clara Randolph
Paula
1952
Mrs. Smith
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
Mrs. Addie Burke
The People Against O'Hara
1951
Betty Clark, Policewoman
The Painted Hills
1951
Martha Blake
Her First Romance
1951
Tomahawk
1951
Mrs. Carrington
Gambling House
1950
Della
Riding High
1950
Nurse (uncredited)
Lonely Heart Bandits
1950
Nancy Crane
No Sad Songs for Me
1950
Louise Spears
Never a Dull Moment
1950
Jean
Air Hostess
1949
Virginia Barton
He Walked by Night
1949
Dispatcher (uncredited)
Rusty Saves a Life
1949
Ethel Mitchell
One Last Fling
1949
Vera Thompson
The Accused
1949
Miss Rice
The Kid from Cleveland
1949
Emily Novak
Holiday in Havana
1949
Marge Henley
Beyond the Forest
1949
Edith Williams
The Clay Pigeon
1949
Nurse (uncredited)
The Fountainhead
1949
Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
Mrs. Egan
Pitfall
1948
Maggie
The Snake Pit
1948
Valerie
My Dog Rusty
1948
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
Hazard
1948
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Sealed Verdict
1948
Ellie Blaine
The Return of the Whistler
1948
Sybil
Reaching from Heaven
1948
Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
The Walls of Jericho
1948
Gossip (uncredited)
No Minor Vices
1948
Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
Fear in the Night
1947
Lil Herlihy
My Favorite Brunette
1947
Miss Rogers
Road to the Big House
1947
Agnes Clark
Second Chance
1947
Doris Greene
For the Love of Rusty
1947
Ethel Mitchell
Seven Were Saved
1947
Mrs Rollin Hartley
Variety Girl
1947
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Magic Town
1947
Mrs. Weaver
The Crimson Key
1947
Paris Wood
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
Bobbi St. John
Pride of the Marines
1945
Ella Mae Merchant
Roughly Speaking
1945
Alice Abbott
Here Come the Waves
1944
Ruth
I Love a Soldier
1944
Jenny Butler
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944
Helen Martin
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
Praying Woman (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Maria (uncredited)
Gildersleeve on Broadway
1943
Matilda Brown
So Proudly We Hail
1943
Lt. Betty Peterson
True to Life
1943
Radio Kitty (uncredited)
The More the Merrier
1943
Miss Bilby (uncredited)
The Hard Way
1943
Dorshka (Uncredited)
Air Force
1943
Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Salesgirl (uncredited)
Old Acquaintance
1943
Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
Mr. Wise Guy
1942
Dorothy Melton
My Sister Eileen
1942
Receptionist (uncredited)
Street of Chance
1942
Miss Peabody
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942
Margaret Chase (uncredited)
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
Miss Hoffman
Smith of Minnesota
1942
(uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Receptionist (uncredited)
They All Kissed the Bride
1942
Helena, the Maid
Penny Serenade
1941
Dotty 'Dot'
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941
Sheila Cobb
Criminals Within
1941
Linda
The Kid from Kansas
1941
Julie 'Smitty' Smith
Sun Valley Serenade
1941
Waitress (uncredited)
New York Town
1941
Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
Dive Bomber
1941
Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
Meet John Doe
1941
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
South of the Boudoir
1940
Mrs. Charley Chase
Girls of the Road
1940
Jerry
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
Shop Girl's Friend
Untamed
1940
1st Nurse (uncredited)
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
Nurse
His Girl Friday
1940
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
The Green Hornet
1940
Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
Glamour for Sale
1940
Myrtle (uncredited)
Blondes and Blunders
1940
Lillie Catlett
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
The Man They Could Not Hang
1939
Betty Crawford
Blind Alley
1939
Agnes
Three Sappy People
1939
The Countess (uncredited)
Flying G-Men
1939
Hamilton's Secretary
The Chump Takes a Bump
1939
Minnie Chase
Rattling Romeo
1939
Judy
Homicide Bureau
1939
Nurse
Let Us Live
1939
Secretary Juror (uncredited)
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Coast Guard
1939
Nurse (uncredited)
A Woman is the Judge
1939
Luella (uncredited)
Skinny the Moocher
1939
Ann
Blondie
1938
Elsie Hazlip
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Maggie O'Neill
Women in Prison
1938
Maggie
A Doggone Mixup
1938
Mrs. Langdon
The Spider's Web
1938
Mason's Secretary
Start Cheering
1938
Green's Secretary
The Mind Needer
1938
Mrs. Chase
Time Out for Trouble
1938
Maisie
The Lady Objects
1938
Miss Hollins
Holiday
1938
Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
City Streets
1938
Nurse (uncredited)
Rio Grande
1938
Jean Andrews
Smashing the Spy Ring
1938
Madelon Martin
Extortion
1938
Margie Blake
Pie a la Maid
1938
Mary
Many Sappy Returns
1938
Mary
Girls Can Play
1937
Alice, Brophy's secretary
I'll Take Romance
1937
Minor Role
Devil's Playground
1937
Bit Part
Nothing Sacred
1937
Telephone Girl (uncredited)
It's All Yours
1937
Stewardess (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
1937
Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)
Stella Dallas
1937
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
The Man Who Lived Twice
1936
Nurse Cameron
Missing Girls
1936
Ann Jason
Let's Sing Again
1936
Alice Alba
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
Mary Burke
Red Lights Ahead
1936
Mary Wallace
Palm Springs
1936
School Girl
Ring Around the Moon
1936
Kay Duncan
Way Down East
1935
Rosie
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
Reporter
Bad Boy
1935
Telegraph Clerk
One Exciting Adventure
1934
Girl