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Ann Lee Doran was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark 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.
Birth Name
Anna Lee Doran
Born
Friday, 28 July 1911
Died
Tuesday, 19 September 2000
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Disaster Artist | Mrs. Carol Stark | 2017 |
| Hey Moe, Hey Dad! | Various characters | 2015 |
| These Amazing Shadows | Mrs. Carol Stark (clip from Rebel Without a Cause (1955)) | 2011 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Betty Crawford | 2007 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| American Masters | Actress 'Rebel without a Cause' | 1986 |
| Wildcats | Mrs. Chatham | 1986 |
| The Twilight Zone | Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction") | 1985 |
| Hell Town | Maude | 1985 |
| Highway to Heaven | Mrs. Bradley | 1984 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Disaster Artist | Mrs. Carol Stark | 2017 |
| Hey Moe, Hey Dad! | Various characters | 2015 |
| These Amazing Shadows | Mrs. Carol Stark (clip from Rebel Without a Cause (1955)) | 2011 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Betty Crawford | 2007 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| American Masters | Actress 'Rebel without a Cause' | 1986 |
| Wildcats | Mrs. Chatham | 1986 |
| The Twilight Zone | Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction") | 1985 |
| Hell Town | Maude | 1985 |
| Highway to Heaven | Mrs. Bradley | 1984 |
| Hunter | Mrs. Rawling | 1984 |
| Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Motel Maid | 1983 |
| The A-Team | Nora | 1983 |
| All the Way Home | Great-Aunt Sadie | 1981 |
| Advice to the Lovelorn | Ada Wells | 1981 |
| Simon & Simon | Tourist Wife | 1981 |
| Father Murphy | Abby | 1981 |
| Cagney & Lacey | Myrtle Hoff | 1981 |
| First Monday in October | Storekeeper | 1981 |
| All Night Long | Grandmother Gibbons | 1981 |
| Walking Tall | Mrs. Tinker | 1981 |
| Magnum, P.I. | Sam Hunter's Mother | 1980 |
| Knots Landing | Mercy | 1979 |
| Shirley | Charlotte McHenry | 1979 |
| Trapper John, M.D. | Mrs. McAndrew | 1979 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Mary Deacon | 1979 |
| Backstairs at the White House | Ellen Truman | 1979 |
| Greatest Heroes of the Bible | Nizra | 1978 |
| Little Mo | Aunt Gert | 1978 |
| The Runaways | Marge | 1978 |
| Project U.F.O. | Annie Butler | 1978 |
| Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion | Grandma Lundy | 1977 |
| We've Got Each Other | Mother McCree | 1977 |
| Dead of Night | Mrs. McCauley / Mrs. McCauley (segment "Second Chance") | 1977 |
| Eight Is Enough | Ms. Ryder | 1977 |
| Fantasy Island | Emma Howard | 1977 |
| Flood | Emma Fisher | 1976 |
| The Gumball Rally | Mrs. Ontley | 1976 |
| The Family Nobody Wanted | Mrs. Kimberly | 1975 |
| Lucas Tanner | Mrs. Brewer | 1974 |
| The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd | Secretary | 1974 |
| The Last Angry Man | Nurse Whitbread | 1974 |
| Little House on the Prairie | Helen Tyler | 1974 |
| The Manhunter | Mrs. Tyler | 1974 |
| Barnaby Jones | Nurse Nora Randall | 1973 |
| M*A*S*H | Nurse Meg Cratty | 1972 |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Mrs. Lockwood / Mrs. Myers | 1972 |
| The Rookies | Mrs. Coleman | 1972 |
| Emergency! | Hannah / Mrs. Perigrew | 1972 |
| The Scarecrow | Mistress Dodge | 1972 |
| The Failing of Raymond | Bus Ticket Clerk | 1971 |
| Cannon | Doris Timmons | 1971 |
| The Hired Hand | Mrs. Sorenson | 1971 |
| Longstreet | Mrs. Kingston | 1971 |
| Alias Smith and Jones | Mrs. Simpson | 1971 |
| Weekend of Terror | Sister Nadine | 1970 |
| The Odd Couple | Loretta Spoon | 1970 |
| There Was a Crooked Man... | Mrs. Lomax | 1970 |
| The Bold Ones: The Senator | Jean Wydell | 1970 |
| Topaz | Mrs. Forsyth | 1969 |
| The Arrangement | Nurse Costello | 1969 |
| Once You Kiss a Stranger... | Lee's Mother | 1969 |
| The Bold Ones: The Lawyers | Mrs. Grimbi | 1969 |
| The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Helen Robinson / Nurse Stern | 1969 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Mother Marie Therese | 1969 |
| Live a Little, Love a Little | Landlady | 1968 |
| Mod Squad | Eva Styles | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | Martha / Mrs. Kerry | 1968 |
| Rosie! | Lady on Witness Stand / Old Lady | 1967 |
| The Hostage | Miss Mabry | 1967 |
| Mannix | Mrs. Moody | 1967 |
| Ironside | Dora Copeland / Harriet Miles / Landlady / Marlene Whittaker / Mrs. Briggs / Nurse Stern | 1967 |
| The Guns of Will Sonnett | Margaret Stover | 1967 |
| Not with My Wife, You Don't! | Doris Parker | 1966 |
| Hey, Landlord | Marcy Banner | 1966 |
| The Legend of Jesse James | Mrs. James | 1965 |
| Mirage | Tenant in Apartment 3R | 1965 |
| Kitten with a Whip | Mavis / Mavis Varden | 1964 |
| Where Love Has Gone | Mrs. Geraghty | 1964 |
| Karen | Mildred Flint | 1964 |
| Bewitched | Mrs. Hunter / Betty | 1964 |
| The Brass Bottle | Martha Kenton | 1964 |
| The Carpetbaggers | Reporter | 1964 |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | Mrs. Pyser | 1963 |
| Petticoat Junction | Mrs. Elliott | 1963 |
| McHale's Navy | Mrs. Binghamton | 1962 |
| Going My Way | Sister Therese | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Reba / Mrs. Graves / Minerva Lewis / Maggie Hyeth / Annie Thomas | 1962 |
| Hazel | Mrs. Waverly | 1961 |
| The Best of the Post | Edna | 1960 |
| My Three Sons | Mrs. Pomeroy | 1960 |
| National Velvet | Martha Brown | 1960 |
| A Summer Place | Mrs. Talbert | 1959 |
| Bourbon Street Beat | Mary Dumont | 1959 |
| The FBI Story | Mrs. Ballard | 1959 |
| Men Into Space | Nurse | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Mrs. Walker / Lisa Stanley | 1959 |
| Cast a Long Shadow | Charlotte Calvert / Ma Calvert | 1959 |
| Warlock | Mrs. Richardson | 1959 |
| Riot in Juvenile Prison | Bess Monahan | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Millie Darius | 1959 |
| Joy Ride | Grace / Grace Renny | 1958 |
| U.S. Marshal | Laura Burke | 1958 |
| Frontier Doctor | Ma 'Dallas' Bell | 1958 |
| The Donna Reed Show | Mrs. Adams / Margaret Dorsey | 1958 |
| The Badlanders | Stagecoach Passenger - Mother | 1958 |
| Step Down to Terror | Mrs. Duprez | 1958 |
| Voice in the Mirror | Mrs. Devlin | 1958 |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Mary Royce | 1958 |
| Life Begins at 17 | Virginia Peck | 1958 |
| Violent Road | Edith Miller | 1958 |
| Day of the Badman | Martha Mordigan | 1958 |
| The Rawhide Trail | Mrs. Cartwright | 1958 |
| The Female Animal | Nurse | 1958 |
| The Deep Six | Elsie Edge | 1958 |
| Bombers B-52 | Sylvia Slater | 1957 |
| Young and Dangerous | Mrs. Clara Clinton | 1957 |
| Colt .45 | Liz Sawyer / Mrs. Staley | 1957 |
| The Gray Ghost | Nurse Charity | 1957 |
| Perry Mason | Nell Wyatt / Cornelia Slater / Claire Durell | 1957 |
| M Squad | Mrs. Rainey | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Aunt Elizabeth | 1957 |
| Band of Angels | Mrs. Morton | 1957 |
| Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend | Sarah Devlin | 1957 |
| Leave It to Beaver | Agnes Haskell / Mrs. Bellamy | 1957 |
| The Silent Service | Mrs. Stewart | 1957 |
| Code 3 | Capt. Helen Lawford | 1957 |
| The Man Who Turned to Stone | Mrs. Ford | 1957 |
| Whirlybirds | Aunt Grace / Linda Scott | 1957 |
| Official Detective | Charlotte | 1957 |
| Wire Service | Martha Ryan | 1956 |
| Broken Arrow | Anne Randolph | 1956 |
| The Sheriff of Cochise | Louise Blair | 1956 |
| State Trooper | Myra Denfield | 1956 |
| Matinee Theatre | Bess | 1955 |
| Rebel Without a Cause | Mrs. Carol Stark / Carol Stark | 1955 |
| The Desperate Hours | Mrs. Walling | 1955 |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Miss Cartwright | 1955 |
| My Friend Flicka | Martha Jepson | 1955 |
| Brave Eagle | Whispering Grass | 1955 |
| The Adventures of Champion | Belle Winters | 1955 |
| Stage 7 | Grace Jennings | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | Jane Costello / Mrs. Johnson | 1955 |
| TV Reader's Digest | Elsie / Mrs. Durant | 1955 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Mrs. Chadwick / Christine Briggs | 1954 |
| The Bob Mathias Story | Lillian Mathias / Mrs. Lillian Mathias | 1954 |
| December Bride | Miss Moore | 1954 |
| Father Knows Best | Dorothy Tyler | 1954 |
| The Vise | Angela | 1954 |
| Lassie | Maggie Pedersen / Edie Fraser | 1954 |
| The Whistler | Ethel | 1954 |
| Them! | Child Psychiatrist | 1954 |
| The High and the Mighty | Clara Joseph | 1954 |
| City Story | 1954 | |
| Public Defender | Bonnie Landis / Capt. Brandt | 1954 |
| Waterfront | Lorraine | 1954 |
| Mayor of the Town | Aggie | 1954 |
| The Eddie Cantor Story | Lillian Edwards | 1953 |
| Topper | Mrs. Welch | 1953 |
| The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | Cx | 1953 |
| The Danny Thomas Show | Teacher | 1953 |
| The Loretta Young Show | Anne Thomas / Felice Badt / Ginny Tucker / Helen Miller / Leona Garner / Miss Somerville / Mrs. Harrison / Nurse #2 | 1953 |
| The Ray Milland Show | Wife | 1953 |
| Island in the Sky | Moon's Wife | 1953 |
| So This Is Love | Mrs. Moore / Mrs. James Moore | 1953 |
| Code Two | Police Dispatcher | 1953 |
| Ramar of the Jungle | Irene Loring | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | Tourist | 1953 |
| I Love Lucy | Audience Member | 1953 |
| Omnibus | Angela's Mother (segment "The Horn Blows at Midnight") | 1952 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | Mrs. Harris / Paula Wilson | 1952 |
| Mr. & Mrs. North | Edith Dixon | 1952 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Marion / Mrs. Malone / Sister Mary Greene / Sue | 1952 |
| Cavalcade of America | Mrs. Honeyman / Caroline | 1952 |
| Four Star Playhouse | Welfare Woman | 1952 |
| Adventures of Superman | Mrs. King | 1952 |
| The Rose Bowl Story | Mrs. Addie Burke | 1952 |
| Footlights Theater | Sister Mary Greene | 1952 |
| Paula | Mrs. Smith, welfare worker / Mrs. Smith | 1952 |
| Rodeo | Mrs. Martha Durston | 1952 |
| Here Come the Nelsons | Clara Randolph | 1952 |
| Love Is Better Than Ever | Mrs. Levoy | 1952 |
| The Roy Rogers Show | Mary Medford | 1951 |
| Starlift | Mrs. Callan - Nurse | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Amy | 1951 |
| The People Against O'Hara | Betty Clark, Policewoman / Betty Clark | 1951 |
| The Painted Hills | Martha Blake | 1951 |
| Her First Romance | Mrs. Foster | 1951 |
| Tomahawk | Mrs. Carrington | 1951 |
| Gambling House | Della | 1950 |
| Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill | Katie | 1950 |
| The Jackpot | Miss Alice Bowen | 1950 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Lois Wilson / Mother / Sales Clerk | 1950 |
| The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Mrs. Adams / Dorothy Potter | 1950 |
| Big Town | Martha Dixon | 1950 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Rose / Harriett | 1950 |
| The Magnavox Theater | Katie / Johnny's Mother | 1950 |
| Lonely Heart Bandits | Nancy Crane | 1950 |
| Never a Dull Moment | Jean | 1950 |
| The Gene Autry Show | Emma Connelly / Aunt Lynn | 1950 |
| No Sad Songs for Me | Louise Spears | 1950 |
| Riding High | Nurse | 1950 |
| Port of New York | Police Dispatcher - edited from He Walked by Night 1948 | 1949 |
| Rusty's Birthday | Ethel Mitchell | 1949 |
| Beyond the Forest | Edith Williams | 1949 |
| Holiday in Havana | Marge Henley | 1949 |
| The Lone Ranger | Martha Carlson / Sarah Yancy | 1949 |
| The Kid from Cleveland | Emily Novak | 1949 |
| Calamity Jane and Sam Bass | Mrs. Lucy Egan | 1949 |
| Air Hostess | Virginia Barton | 1949 |
| One Last Fling | Vera Thompson | 1949 |
| The Fountainhead | Wynand's Secretary | 1949 |
| Big Jack | Sarah Oakes | 1949 |
| Fireside Theatre | Nora / Eva / Catherine West | 1949 |
| The Clay Pigeon | Nurse | 1949 |
| He Walked by Night | Dispatcher | 1949 |
| The Accused | Miss Rice - Nurse / Miss Rice | 1949 |
| Rusty Saves a Life | Ethel Mitchell | 1949 |
| The Snake Pit | Valerie | 1948 |
| No Minor Vices | Mrs. Faraday | 1948 |
| Sealed Verdict | Ellie Blaine - Red Cross Date / Ellie Blaine | 1948 |
| Rusty Leads the Way | Ethel Mitchell | 1948 |
| The Babe Ruth Story | Reporter | 1948 |
| Pitfall | Maggie | 1948 |
| The Walls of Jericho | Gossip | 1948 |
| Hazard | Nurse / Hospital Nurse | 1948 |
| My Dog Rusty | Ethel Mitchell / Mrs. Ethel Mitchell | 1948 |
| The Return of the Whistler | Sybil / Sybil Barkley | 1948 |
| Reaching from Heaven | Martha Kestner / Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran) | 1948 |
| Road to the Big House | Agnes Clark | 1947 |
| Magic Town | Mrs. Weaver | 1947 |
| Variety Girl | Hairdresser | 1947 |
| The Son of Rusty | Ethel Mitchell / Mrs. Ethel Mitchell | 1947 |
| Second Chance | Doris Greene | 1947 |
| The Crimson Key | Paris Wood | 1947 |
| For the Love of Rusty | Ethel Mitchell | 1947 |
| Seven Were Saved | Mrs. Rollin Hartley / Mrs Rollin Hartley | 1947 |
| My Favorite Brunette | Miss Rogers | 1947 |
| Fear in the Night | Lil Herlihy | 1946 |
| The Perfect Marriage | Secretary Ellen | 1946 |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Bobbi St. John | 1946 |
| Our Hearts Were Growing Up | Monica Lonsdale | 1946 |
| Pride of the Marines | Ella Mae Merchant | 1945 |
| Roughly Speaking | Alice Abbott | 1945 |
| Here Come the Waves | Ruth | 1944 |
| I Love a Soldier | Jenny Butler | 1944 |
| Mr. Skeffington | Nurse Maria | 1944 |
| Henry Aldrich's Little Secret | Helen Martin | 1944 |
| The Story of Dr. Wassell | Praying Woman | 1944 |
| Doctor, Feel My Pulse | Ruth | 1944 |
| True to Life | Radio Kitty | 1943 |
| Old Acquaintance | Music Store Saleslady | 1943 |
| Gildersleeve on Broadway | Matilda Brown | 1943 |
| So Proudly We Hail! | Lt. Betty Peterson | 1943 |
| The More the Merrier | Miss Bilby | 1943 |
| Slightly Dangerous | Salesgirl | 1943 |
| Air Force | Mrs. Mary Ann Quincannon | 1943 |
| The Hard Way | Dorshka | 1943 |
| Street of Chance | Miss Peabody | 1942 |
| My Sister Eileen | Receptionist | 1942 |
| Beyond the Blue Horizon | Margaret Chase | 1942 |
| They All Kissed the Bride | Helene - the Drew's Maid / Helena, the Maid | 1942 |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | Receptionist | 1942 |
| Mr. Wise Guy | Dorothy Melton | 1942 |
| Blue, White and Perfect | Miss Hoffman | 1942 |
| New York Town | Demonstrator in Department Store | 1941 |
| Buy Me That Town | Woman | 1941 |
| Sing Another Chorus | Bronx Dame | 1941 |
| The Kid from Kansas | Julie 'Smitty' Smith | 1941 |
| Dive Bomber | Helen | 1941 |
| Sun Valley Serenade | Waitress | 1941 |
| Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Nurse at Party | 1941 |
| Criminals Within | Linda | 1941 |
| Penny Serenade | Dotty / Dotty 'Dot' | 1941 |
| Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery | Sheila Cobb | 1941 |
| Meet John Doe | Mrs. Hansen | 1941 |
| Murder Among Friends | Dr. Turk's Nurse | 1941 |
| Her First Romance | Student | 1940 |
| Cold Turkey | Mrs. Langdon | 1940 |
| Glamour for Sale | Myrtle | 1940 |
| Girls of the Road | Jerry | 1940 |
| Manhattan Heartbeat | Shop Girl's Friend | 1940 |
| Untamed | 1st Nurse | 1940 |
| South of the Boudoir | Mrs. Charley Chase | 1940 |
| Forgotten Girls | Inmate | 1940 |
| Five Little Peppers at Home | Nurse | 1940 |
| His Girl Friday | Newspaper Office Worker | 1940 |
| The Green Hornet | Josephine Weaver Allen [Ch. 3] | 1940 |
| Three Sappy People | Countess | 1939 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Paine's Secretary | 1939 |
| A Woman Is the Judge | Luella | 1939 |
| Skinny the Moocher | Ann Night / Ann | 1939 |
| The Man They Could Not Hang | Betty Crawford | 1939 |
| Coast Guard | Nurse | 1939 |
| Rattling Romeo | Judy | 1939 |
| Good Girls Go to Paris | Bridesmaid | 1939 |
| Blind Alley | Agnes | 1939 |
| Romance of the Redwoods | Logger's Wife | 1939 |
| Let Us Live | Secretary Juror | 1939 |
| My Son Is a Criminal | Taxicab Company Secretary | 1939 |
| Flying G-Men | Hamilton's Secretary | 1939 |
| Homicide Bureau | Nurse | 1939 |
| Smashing the Spy Ring | Madelon Martin | 1938 |
| Pie a la Maid | Mary | 1938 |
| Rio Grande | Jean Andrews | 1938 |
| Blondie | Elsie Hazlip | 1938 |
| The Spider's Web | Mason's Secretary | 1938 |
| The Lady Objects | Miss Hollins | 1938 |
| Sue My Lawyer | Anita Burton | 1938 |
| You Can't Take It with You | Maggie O'Neill | 1938 |
| Many Sappy Returns | Mary Benson / Mary | 1938 |
| City Streets | Nurse | 1938 |
| Highway Patrol | Estelle | 1938 |
| The Main Event | Telegraph Clerk | 1938 |
| Holiday | Kitchen Maid | 1938 |
| The Mind Needer | Mrs. Chase | 1938 |
| Time Out for Trouble | Maisie | 1938 |
| Start Cheering | Green's Secretary | 1938 |
| Women in Prison | Maggie | 1938 |
| A Doggone Mixup | Mrs. Langdon | 1938 |
| Little Miss Roughneck | Girl | 1938 |
| The Shadow | Shaw Sister | 1937 |
| Paid to Dance | Rose Trevor | 1937 |
| She Married an Artist | Model | 1937 |
| Nothing Sacred | Telephone Girl | 1937 |
| I'll Take Romance | Minor Role / Opera Cast | 1937 |
| It's All Yours | Stewardess | 1937 |
| Stella Dallas | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1937 |
| Marry the Girl | Marge, a Secretary | 1937 |
| Girls Can Play | Alice, Secretary | 1937 |
| The Go Getter | Maizie - the Maid | 1937 |
| When You're in Love | Secretary | 1937 |
| Devil's Playground | Bit Part | 1937 |
| Red Lights Ahead | Mary Wallace | 1936 |
| The Man Who Lived Twice | Nurse Cameron | 1936 |
| Missing Girls | Ann Jason | 1936 |
| Palm Springs | 1936 | |
| Let's Sing Again | Alice Alba | 1936 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Girl on Bus | 1936 |
| The Little Red Schoolhouse | Mary Burke | 1936 |
| Lady of Secrets | Reporter | 1936 |
| Ring Around the Moon | Kay Duncan | 1936 |
| Dangerous Intrigue | Floor Nurse | 1936 |
| Mary Burns, Fugitive | Newspaper Woman / Reporter | 1935 |
| Way Down East | Rosie / Rosie - Hired Girl | 1935 |
| Bad Boy | Telegraph Clerk | 1935 |
| Case of the Missing Man | Dental Nurse | 1935 |
| Night Life of the Gods | Girl in Pool | 1935 |
| Servants' Entrance | Marie the Maid | 1934 |
| One Exciting Adventure | Girl | 1934 |
| Robin Hood | Page to Richard | 1922 |
