Ann Doran

Jul 28, 1911 - Sep 19, 2000 (89 years old) in Amarillo, Texas, USA

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

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Lassie

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M*A*S*H

Meg Cratty

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My Three Sons

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The Lone Ranger

Sarah Yancy

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Perry Mason

Claire Durell

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Magnum, P.I.

Sam Hunter's Mother

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Bonanza

Mrs. Walker

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Petticoat Junction

Mrs. Elliott

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Little House on the Prairie

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The A-Team

Nora

Credits

Wildcats 1986

Mrs. Chatham

★ 6.2
The Twilight Zone 1985

Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")

★ 7.7
Hell Town 1985

Maude

★ 5
Highway to Heaven 1984

Mrs. Bradley

★ 7.3
Hunter 1984

Mrs. Rawling

★ 7.2
Scarecrow and Mrs. King 1983

★ 6.3
The A-Team 1983

Nora

★ 7.5
Cagney & Lacey 1982

★ 6.9
All the Way Home 1981

Great-Aunt Sadie

★ 7
Advice to the Lovelorn 1981

Ada Wells

★ 5
Simon & Simon 1981

★ 6.7
First Monday in October 1981

Storekeeper

★ 6.3
Crazy Times 1981

Mrs. Keagan

★ NR
All Night Long 1981

Grandmother Gibbons

★ 5.2
Magnum, P.I. 1980

Sam Hunter's Mother

★ 7.3
Knots Landing 1979

Mercy

★ 6.7
Shirley 1979

★ 5
Tales of the Unexpected 1979

Mary Deacon

★ 6.7
Little Mo 1978

Aunt Gert

★ 7.5
The Runaways 1978

★ 5
Fantasy Island 1978

Emma Howard

★ 6.4
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion 1977

Grandma Lundy

★ 7
We've Got Each Other 1977

★ 5
Flood! 1977

Emma Fisher

★ 4.9
Dead of Night 1977

Mrs. McCauley

★ 6.3
Eight Is Enough 1977

★ 6
How the West Was Won 1977

Grandma

★ 6.9
The Gumball Rally 1976

Mrs. Ontley

★ 6.1
The Macahans 1976

Grandma

★ 6.7
The Family Nobody Wanted 1975

Mrs. Kimberly

★ 5.8
The Werewolf of Woodstock 1975

Dora

★ 8
Little House on the Prairie 1974

★ 7.9
Lucas Tanner 1974

★ 7
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd 1974

Secretary

★ 4
The Last Angry Man 1974

Nurse Whitbread

★ NR
The Streets of San Francisco 1972

★ 6.9
M*A*S*H 1972

Meg Cratty

★ 7.9
The Rookies 1972

★ 6.8
Emergency! 1972

★ 7.8
The Failing of Raymond 1971

Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

★ 6
Longstreet 1971

★ 6.8
Cannon 1971

★ 6.5
The Hired Hand 1971

Mrs. Sorenson

★ 6.1
Alias Smith and Jones 1971

★ 6.9
Weekend of Terror 1970

Sister Nadine

★ 5.8
The Odd Couple 1970

Loretta Spoon

★ 7.8
There Was a Crooked Man... 1970

Mrs. Lomax

★ 6.8
The Bold Ones: The Senator 1970

Jean Wydell

★ 3
Topaz 1969

Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

★ 6
The Arrangement 1969

Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Once You Kiss a Stranger... 1969

Lee's Mother

★ 4.4
Live a Little, Love a Little 1968

Landlady (uncredited)

★ 5.5
The Mod Squad 1968

Eva Styles

★ 6.3
Adam-12 1968

Martha

★ 7
Rosie! 1967

Lady on Witness Stand

★ NR
The Hostage 1967

Miss Mabry

★ 4.6
Mannix 1967

Mrs. Moody

★ 6.7
The Guns of Will Sonnett 1967

★ 6.2
Ironside 1967

★ 6.8
Not With My Wife, You Don't 1966

Doris Parker

★ 6
Mirage 1965

★ 7
The Legend of Jesse James 1965

Mrs. James

★ 4.8
Kitten with a Whip 1964

Mavis Varden

★ 5.2
Where Love Has Gone 1964

Mrs. Geraghty

★ 6.2
Bewitched 1964

★ 7.9
The Brass Bottle 1964

Martha Kenton

★ 6.2
The Carpetbaggers 1964

Reporter

★ 5.8
Captain Newman, M.D. 1963

Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Petticoat Junction 1963

Mrs. Elliott

★ 5.8
The Virginian 1962

Minerva Lewis

★ 6.5
My Three Sons 1960

★ 6.5
National Velvet 1960

Martha Brown

★ 7.5
A Summer Place 1959

Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Bourbon Street Beat 1959

★ 5
The FBI Story 1959

Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Bonanza 1959

Mrs. Walker

★ 7.5
Cast a Long Shadow 1959

Ma Calvert

★ 6.4
Riot in Juvenile Prison 1959

Bess Monahan

★ 5.2
Rawhide 1959

Millie Darius

★ 7.2
Joy Ride 1958

Grace Renny

★ 5
The Donna Reed Show 1958

★ 6.2
The Badlanders 1958

Stagecoach Passenger - Mother (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Step Down to Terror 1958

Mrs. Duprez

★ 5.6
Voice in the Mirror 1958

Mrs. Devlin

★ 5.8
It! The Terror from Beyond Space 1958

Mary Royce

★ 5.9
Life Begins At 17 1958

Virginia Peck

★ 6
Violent Road 1958

Edith Miller

★ 6
Day of the Badman 1958

Martha Mordigan

★ 6.5
The Rawhide Trail 1958

Mrs. Cartwright

★ NR
The Female Animal 1958

Nurse

★ 5.6
Bombers B-52 1957

Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Young and Dangerous 1957

Mrs. Clara Clinton

★ 6
Leave It to Beaver 1957

Agnes Haskell

★ 7
Perry Mason 1957

Claire Durell

★ 7.7
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend 1957

Sarah Devlin

★ 6.1
The Man Who Turned to Stone 1957

Mrs. Ford

★ 4.5
Official Detective 1957

★ NR
Matinee Theater 1955

★ 5
Rebel Without a Cause 1955

Carol Stark

★ 7.5
The Desperate Hours 1955

Mrs. Walling

★ 7
The 20th Century Fox Hour 1955

★ 5.4
The Millionaire 1955

Jane Costello

★ 5
The Wonderful World of Disney 1954

Mrs. Chadwick

★ 7.8
The Bob Mathias Story 1954

Lillian Mathias

★ 6
December Bride 1954

★ 5.5
Lassie 1954

★ 6.1
The Whistler 1954

★ NR
The High and the Mighty 1954

Clara Joseph

★ 5.9
Them! 1954

Child Psychiatrist

★ 6.8
City Story 1954

★ NR
Public Defender 1954

★ 6
The Eddie Cantor Story 1953

Lillian Edwards

★ 5
Letter to Loretta 1953

Nurse

★ 6.5
Island in the Sky 1953

Moon's Wife (uncredited)

★ 6.2
So This Is Love 1953

Mrs. Moore

★ 4.5
The Ford Television Theatre 1952

Sister Mary Greene

★ 7.3
Cavalcade of America 1952

Mrs. Honeyman

★ 3.5
Four Star Playhouse 1952

Welfare Woman

★ 6.3
Adventures of Superman 1952

★ 6.7
The Rose Bowl Story 1952

Mrs. Addie Burke

★ 3.5
Paula 1952

Mrs. Smith

★ 6.5
Love Is Better Than Ever 1952

Mrs. Levoy

★ 6.1
Here Come the Nelsons 1952

Clara Randolph

★ 6
Chevron Theatre 1952

★ 10
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951

Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell

★ 8.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars 1951

Amy

★ 7.3
The People Against O'Hara 1951

Betty Clark, Policewoman

★ 5.7
The Painted Hills 1951

Martha Blake

★ 4.1
Her First Romance 1951

★ 2
Tomahawk 1951

Mrs. Carrington

★ 6.6
Gambling House 1950

Della

★ 6.1
The Jack Benny Program 1950

Mother

★ 7.8
Lux Video Theatre 1950

Rose

★ 6.3
Lonely Heart Bandits 1950

Nancy Crane

★ 6.5
Never a Dull Moment 1950

Jean

★ 5.4
No Sad Songs for Me 1950

Louise Spears

★ 6.2
Riding High 1950

Nurse (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Rusty's Birthday 1949

Ethel Mitchell

★ 4
Beyond the Forest 1949

Edith Williams

★ 6.8
Holiday in Havana 1949

Marge Henley

★ 5
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass 1949

Mrs. Egan

★ 5.7
The Lone Ranger 1949

Sarah Yancy

★ 6.7
The Kid from Cleveland 1949

Emily Novak

★ 5
Air Hostess 1949

Virginia Barton

★ 4.7
One Last Fling 1949

Vera Thompson

★ 4
The Fountainhead 1949

Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

★ 6.9
The Clay Pigeon 1949

Nurse (uncredited)

★ 5.5
He Walked by Night 1949

Dispatcher (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Rusty Saves a Life 1949

Ethel Mitchell

★ 7
The Accused 1949

Miss Rice

★ 6.1
The Walls of Jericho 1948

Gossip (uncredited)

★ 5.7
No Minor Vices 1948

Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Sealed Verdict 1948

Ellie Blaine

★ 5.5
The Snake Pit 1948

Valerie

★ 7.1
Rusty Leads the Way 1948

Ethel Mitchell

★ 6
Pitfall 1948

Maggie

★ 6.9
Hazard 1948

Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

★ 8
My Dog Rusty 1948

Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

★ 8
The Return of the Whistler 1948

Sybil

★ 5.9
Reaching from Heaven 1948

Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

★ NR
Road to the Big House 1947

Agnes Clark

★ 5.7
Magic Town 1947

Mrs. Weaver

★ 6.7
Variety Girl 1947

Hairdresser (uncredited)

★ 6.1
The Son of Rusty 1947

Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

★ NR
Second Chance 1947

Doris Greene

★ 5
The Crimson Key 1947

Paris Wood

★ 4.3
For the Love of Rusty 1947

Ethel Mitchell

★ NR
Fear in the Night 1947

Lil Herlihy

★ 5.4
Seven Were Saved 1947

Mrs Rollin Hartley

★ 6.1
My Favorite Brunette 1947

Miss Rogers

★ 6.7
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946

Bobbi St. John

★ 7.1
Pride of the Marines 1945

Ella Mae Merchant

★ 6.5
Roughly Speaking 1945

Alice Abbott

★ 6.8
Here Come the Waves 1944

Ruth

★ 5
I Love a Soldier 1944

Jenny Butler

★ 4
The Story of Dr. Wassell 1944

Praying Woman (uncredited)

★ 6.3
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret 1944

Helen Martin

★ NR
Mr. Skeffington 1944

Maria (uncredited)

★ 6.7
True to Life 1943

Radio Kitty (uncredited)

★ 6
Old Acquaintance 1943

Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

★ 6.9
Gildersleeve on Broadway 1943

Matilda Brown

★ 5.8
So Proudly We Hail 1943

Lt. Betty Peterson

★ 5.5
The More the Merrier 1943

Miss Bilby (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Slightly Dangerous 1943

Salesgirl (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Air Force 1943

Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

★ 6.4
The Hard Way 1943

Dorshka (Uncredited)

★ 6.6
Smith of Minnesota 1942

(uncredited)

★ NR
Street of Chance 1942

Miss Peabody

★ 5.3
My Sister Eileen 1942

Receptionist (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Beyond the Blue Horizon 1942

Margaret Chase (uncredited)

★ NR
They All Kissed the Bride 1942

Helena, the Maid

★ 5.8
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942

Receptionist (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Mr. Wise Guy 1942

Dorothy Melton

★ 6.1
Blue, White, and Perfect 1942

Miss Hoffman

★ 6.3
New York Town 1941

Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

★ 10
The Kid from Kansas 1941

Julie 'Smitty' Smith

★ NR
Sun Valley Serenade 1941

Waitress (uncredited)

★ 6.9
Criminals Within 1941

Linda

★ 6
Penny Serenade 1941

Dotty 'Dot'

★ 6.6
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery 1941

Sheila Cobb

★ 5.3
Meet John Doe 1941

Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

★ 7.3
Dive Bomber 1941

Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

★ 6.3
Blondes and Blunders 1940

Lillie Catlett

★ NR
Cold Turkey 1940

Mrs. Langdon

★ NR
Glamour for Sale 1940

Myrtle (uncredited)

★ 4
Girls of the Road 1940

Jerry

★ 5
Untamed 1940

1st Nurse (uncredited)

★ 4.3
Manhattan Heartbeat 1940

Shop Girl's Friend

★ NR
South of the Boudoir 1940

Mrs. Charley Chase

★ NR
Five Little Peppers at Home 1940

Nurse

★ 6.3
His Girl Friday 1940

Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

★ 7.4
The Green Hornet 1940

Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

★ 5.5
Three Sappy People 1939

The Countess (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939

Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

★ 7.9
A Woman is the Judge 1939

Luella (uncredited)

★ NR
Skinny the Moocher 1939

Ann

★ NR
The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

Betty Crawford

★ 6.6
Coast Guard 1939

Nurse (uncredited)

★ 5
Rattling Romeo 1939

Judy

★ NR
Good Girls Go to Paris 1939

Bridesmaid (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Blind Alley 1939

Agnes

★ 5.7
The Chump Takes a Bump 1939

Minnie Chase

★ NR
Let Us Live 1939

Secretary Juror (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Flying G-Men 1939

Hamilton's Secretary

★ 6
Homicide Bureau 1939

Nurse

★ 6
Smashing the Spy Ring 1938

Madelon Martin

★ NR
Pie a la Maid 1938

Mary

★ NR
Rio Grande 1938

Jean Andrews

★ 3
A Doggone Mixup 1938

Mrs. Langdon

★ NR
Blondie 1938

Elsie Hazlip

★ 7.1
The Spider's Web 1938

Mason's Secretary

★ 6
The Lady Objects 1938

Miss Hollins

★ 5.7
Sue My Lawyer 1938

Anita Burton

★ NR
You Can't Take It with You 1938

Maggie O'Neill

★ 7.5
Many Sappy Returns 1938

Mary

★ 4.8
City Streets 1938

Nurse (uncredited)

★ NR
Highway Patrol 1938

Estelle

★ NR
Holiday 1938

Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

★ 7.3
Extortion 1938

Margie Blake

★ 5
The Mind Needer 1938

Mrs. Chase

★ 4
Time Out for Trouble 1938

Maisie

★ 3
Start Cheering 1938

Green's Secretary

★ 7
Women in Prison 1938

Maggie

★ 6
Nothing Sacred 1937

Telephone Girl (uncredited)

★ 6.2
I'll Take Romance 1937

Minor Role

★ 5
It's All Yours 1937

Stewardess (uncredited)

★ 5
Stella Dallas 1937

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Girls Can Play 1937

Alice, Brophy's secretary

★ 4
The Go-Getter 1937

Maizie, the Maid (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Devil's Playground 1937

Bit Part

★ 6
Red Lights Ahead 1936

Mary Wallace

★ 5.2
The Man Who Lived Twice 1936

Nurse Cameron

★ 6.7
Missing Girls 1936

Ann Jason

★ 5
Palm Springs 1936

School Girl

★ NR
Let's Sing Again 1936

Alice Alba

★ 3.2
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936

Girl on Bus (uncredited)

★ 7.5
The Little Red Schoolhouse 1936

Mary Burke

★ 5.5
Ring Around the Moon 1936

Kay Duncan

★ 3
Mary Burns, Fugitive 1935

Reporter

★ NR
Way Down East 1935

Rosie

★ 3
Bad Boy 1935

Telegraph Clerk

★ 5
One Exciting Adventure 1934

Girl

★ NR