Ann 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.

Known For

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

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

199

Gender

Female

Birthday

1911-07-28

Place of Birth

Amarillo, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Ann Lee Doran