Acting

Ann Doran

Born 1911-07-28 · Amarillo, Texas, USA

Died 2000-09-19

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.

Credits

Newest first

Wildcats
as Mrs. Chatham
1986
The Twilight Zone
as Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")
1985
Hell Town
as Maude
1985
Highway to Heaven
as Mrs. Bradley
1984
Hunter
as Mrs. Rawling
1984
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
The A-Team
as Nora
1983
Cagney & Lacey
1982
All the Way Home
as Great-Aunt Sadie
1981
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Ada Wells
1981
Simon & Simon
1981
First Monday in October
as Storekeeper
1981
Crazy Times
as Mrs. Keagan
1981
All Night Long
as Grandmother Gibbons
1981
Magnum, P.I.
as Sam Hunter's Mother
1980
Knots Landing
as Mercy
1979
Shirley
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
as Mary Deacon
1979
Little Mo
as Aunt Gert
1978
The Runaways
1978
Fantasy Island
as Emma Howard
1978
Fantasy Island
as Mrs. Howard (uncredited)
1978
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as Grandma Lundy
1977
We've Got Each Other
1977
Flood!
as Emma Fisher
1977
Dead of Night
as Mrs. McCauley
1977
Eight Is Enough
1977
The Gumball Rally
as Mrs. Ontley
1976
The Macahans
as Grandma
1976
The Family Nobody Wanted
as Mrs. Kimberly
1975
The Werewolf of Woodstock
as Dora
1975
Little House on the Prairie
as Helen Tyler
1974
Lucas Tanner
1974
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
as Secretary
1974
The Last Angry Man
as Nurse Whitbread
1974
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
M*A*S*H
as Meg Cratty
1972
The Rookies
1972
Emergency!
as Mrs. Perigrew
1972
Emergency!
as Hannah
1972
Scarecrow
as Mistress Dodge
1972
The Failing of Raymond
as Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1971
Longstreet
as Mrs. Kingston
1971
The Priest Killer
as Harriet Miles
1971
Cannon
1971
The Hired Hand
as Mrs. Sorenson
1971
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Weekend of Terror
as Sister Nadine
1970
The Odd Couple
as Loretta Spoon
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Mrs. Lomax
1970
The Bold Ones: The Senator
as Jean Wydell
1970
Topaz
as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
1969
The Arrangement
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1969
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
as Lee's Mother
1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Nurse Stern
1969
Live a Little, Love a Little
as Landlady (uncredited)
1968
The Mod Squad
as Eva Styles
1968
Adam-12
as Martha
1968
Adam-12
as Mrs. Kerry
1968
Rosie!
as Lady on Witness Stand
1967
The Hostage
as Miss Mabry
1967
Mannix
as Mrs. Moody
1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Ironside
1967
Ironside
as Harriet Miles
1967
Ironside
as Marlene Whittaker
1967
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
as Doris Parker
1966
Mirage
as Tenant in Apartment 3R (uncredited)
1965
The Legend of Jesse James
as Mrs. James
1965
Kitten with a Whip
as Mavis Varden
1964
Where Love Has Gone
as Mrs. Geraghty
1964
Bewitched
as Mrs. Raphael
1964
The Brass Bottle
as Martha Kenton
1964
The Carpetbaggers
as Reporter (uncredited)
1964
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)
1963
Petticoat Junction
as Mrs. Elliott
1963
The Virginian
as Minerva Lewis
1962
The Virginian
as Maggie Hyeth
1962
The Virginian
as Reba
1962
The Virginian
as Mrs. Graves
1962