
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.

Carol Stark
Rebel Without a Cause

Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Elsie Hazlip
Blondie

Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
Topaz

Virginia Barton
Air Hostess

Dorothy Melton
Mr. Wise Guy

Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Receptionist (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen

Maggie
Pitfall

Betty Crawford
The Man They Could Not Hang

Dispatcher (uncredited)
He Walked by Night

Bobbi St. John
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Mary Royce
It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Maggie O'Neill
You Can't Take It with You

Lil Herlihy
Fear in the Night

Agnes
Blind Alley

Mrs. Ford
The Man Who Turned to Stone

Betty Clark, Policewoman
The People Against O'Hara

Mrs. Sorenson
The Hired Hand

Miss Peabody
Street of Chance

Landlady (uncredited)
Live a Little, Love a Little

Mavis Varden
Kitten with a Whip

Mrs. Levoy
Love Is Better Than Ever

Ruth
Here Come the Waves

Dotty 'Dot'
Penny Serenade

Valerie
The Snake Pit

Martha Blake
The Painted Hills

The Countess (uncredited)
Three Sappy People

Della
Gambling House

Hamilton's Secretary
Flying G-Men

Mrs. Charley Chase
South of the Boudoir

Minnie Chase
The Chump Takes a Bump

Clara Joseph
The High and the Mighty

Miss Rogers
My Favorite Brunette

Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Arrangement

Sheila Cobb
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

Agnes Clark
Road to the Big House

Doris Greene
Second Chance

Mrs. Devlin
Voice in the Mirror

Ella Mae Merchant
Pride of the Marines

Mrs. Geraghty
Where Love Has Gone

Matilda Brown
Gildersleeve on Broadway

Lee's Mother
Once You Kiss a Stranger...

Ethel Mitchell
For the Love of Rusty

Jerry
Girls of the Road

Doris Parker
Not With My Wife, You Don't!

Mrs. McCauley
Dead of Night

Ethel Mitchell
Rusty Saves a Life

Ethel Mitchell
Rusty Leads the Way

Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
The Son of Rusty

Miss Mabry
The Hostage

Mrs. Ethel Mitchell
My Dog Rusty

Nurse Cameron (uncredited)
The Man Who Lived Twice

Margaret Chase (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon

Grandmother Gibbons
All Night Long

Ann Jason
Missing Girls

Edith Miller
Violent Road

Maggie
Women in Prison

Mrs Rollin Hartley
Seven Were Saved

Lt. Betty Peterson
So Proudly We Hail

Nurse (uncredited)
Riding High

Alice Abbott
Roughly Speaking

Dora
The Werewolf of Woodstock

Nancy Crane
Lonely Heart Bandits

Her First Romance

Virginia Peck
Life Begins At 17

Alice Alba
Let's Sing Again

Ma Calvert
Cast a Long Shadow

Storekeeper
First Monday in October

Grace Renny
Joy Ride

Sarah Devlin (uncredited)
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)
The FBI Story

Louise Spears
No Sad Songs for Me

Hairdresser (uncredited)
Variety Girl

Mary Burke
The Little Red Schoolhouse

Mary Wallace
Red Lights Ahead

Alice, Brophy's secretary
Girls Can Play

Lady on Witness Stand
Rosie!

Mrs. Kimberly
The Family Nobody Wanted

Linda
Criminals Within

Ethel Mitchell
Rusty's Birthday

Mrs. Langdon
A Doggone Mixup

Rosie
Way Down East

Clara Randolph
Here Come the Nelsons

Nurse
The Female Animal

Mrs. Smith
Paula

Lillian Mathias
The Bob Mathias Story

Mrs. Moore
So This Is Love

Radio Kitty (uncredited)
True to Life

Jenny Butler
I Love a Soldier

Mason's Secretary
The Spider's Web

Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
Captain Newman, M.D.

Mrs. Weaver
Magic Town

Miss Bilby (uncredited)
The More the Merrier

Paris Wood
The Crimson Key

Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
The Failing of Raymond

Vera Thompson
One Last Fling

Lillian Edwards
The Eddie Cantor Story

City Story

Judy
Rattling Romeo

Miss Rice
The Accused

Mrs. Duprez
Step Down to Terror

Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Hazard

Ellie Blaine
Sealed Verdict

School Girl
Palm Springs

Minor Role
I'll Take Romance

Nurse
Homicide Bureau

Emily Novak
The Kid from Cleveland

Child Psychiatrist
Them!

Green's Secretary
Start Cheering

Shop Girl's Friend
Manhattan Heartbeat

Bit Part
Devil's Playground

Helen Martin
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

Mrs. Clara Clinton
Young and Dangerous

Secretary Juror (uncredited)
Let Us Live

Girl
One Exciting Adventure

Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Good Girls Go to Paris

Nurse (uncredited)
Coast Guard

Anita Burton
Sue My Lawyer

Mrs. Chase
The Mind Needer

Maisie
Time Out for Trouble

Sybil
The Return of the Whistler

Bess Monahan
Riot in Juvenile Prison

Dorshka (Uncredited)
The Hard Way

Jean
Never a Dull Moment

Miss Hollins
The Lady Objects

Mrs. Langdon
Cold Turkey

Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Holiday

Student (uncredited)
Her First Romance

Great-Aunt Sadie
All the Way Home

Ada Wells
Advice to the Lovelorn

1st Nurse (uncredited)
Untamed

Grandma Lundy
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Mrs. Keagan
Crazy Times

Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)
Air Force

Mrs. Cartwright
The Rawhide Trail

Luella (uncredited)
A Woman is the Judge

Martha Kenton
The Brass Bottle

Aunt Gert
Little Mo

Miss Hoffman
Blue, White, and Perfect

Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Island in the Sky

Nurse
Five Little Peppers at Home

Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
His Girl Friday

Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)
The Green Hornet

Nurse (uncredited)
City Streets

Marge Henley
Holiday in Havana

Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)
Reaching from Heaven

(uncredited)
Smith of Minnesota

Julie 'Smitty' Smith
The Kid from Kansas

Estelle
Highway Patrol

Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)
A Summer Place

Jean Andrews
Rio Grande

Kay Duncan
Ring Around the Moon

Mrs. Addie Burke
The Rose Bowl Story

Reporter
The Carpetbaggers

Edith Williams
Beyond the Forest

Waitress (uncredited)
Sun Valley Serenade

Reporter
Mary Burns, Fugitive

Praying Woman (uncredited)
The Story of Dr. Wassell

Maria (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington

Telephone Girl (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred

Gossip (uncredited)
The Walls of Jericho

Stewardess (uncredited)
It's All Yours

Nurse (uncredited)
The Clay Pigeon

Mrs. Carrington
Tomahawk

Mrs. Chatham
Wildcats

Sister Nadine
Weekend of Terror

Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)
No Minor Vices

Martha Mordigan
Day of the Badman

Madelon Martin
Smashing the Spy Ring

Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)
New York Town

Sylvia Slater (uncredited)
Bombers B-52

Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)
The Go-Getter

Receptionist (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)
Dive Bomber

Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Meet John Doe

Salesgirl (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous

Myrtle (uncredited)
Glamour for Sale

Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)
Old Acquaintance

Helena, the Maid
They All Kissed the Bride

Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)
The Fountainhead

Ann
Skinny the Moocher

Mrs. Lomax
There Was a Crooked Man...

Mrs. Walling
The Desperate Hours

Mrs. Egan
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Secretary
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Stella Dallas

Margie Blake
Extortion

Lillie Catlett
Blondes and Blunders

Mary
Pie a la Maid

Mary
Many Sappy Returns

Nurse Whitbread
The Last Angry Man

Mrs. Ontley
The Gumball Rally

Emma Fisher
Flood!

Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)
Mirage

Grandma
The Macahans

Telegraph Clerk
Bad Boy

Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)
The Badlanders

Human resources officer
A Fair Chance

Harriet Miles
The Priest Killer

Mrs. Richardson (uncredited)
Warlock
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
201
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-07-28
Place of Birth
Amarillo, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Ann Lee Doran