Actor
Ann Doran
July 28, 1911 · 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.
Notable work
7.5Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Carol Stark
7.8Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
7.5The A-Team (1983)
as Nora
8Little House on the Prairie (1974)
as Helen Tyler
7.4His Girl Friday (1940)
as Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
7.9M*A*S*H (1972)
as Meg Cratty
7.9Bewitched (1964)
as Mrs. Raphael
7.5Bonanza (1959)
as Mrs. Walker
6.8Them! (1954)
as Child Psychiatrist
7.5You Can't Take It with You (1938)
as Maggie O'Neill
7.3Magnum, P.I. (1980)
as Sam Hunter's Mother
6Topaz (1969)
as Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)
Often works with
Michael Landon
3 titles together
Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven
Victor French
3 titles together
Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, There Was a Crooked Man...
William Hopper
2 titles together
Rebel Without a Cause, Perry Mason
Robert Foulk
2 titles together
Rebel Without a Cause, Bonanza
James Stewart
2 titles together
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take It with You
Jean Arthur
2 titles together
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take It with You
Full filmography · 150
Wildcats
as Mrs. Chatham
19866.3
All the Way Home
as Great-Aunt Sadie
1981
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Ada Wells
1981
First Monday in October
as Storekeeper
19816.2
Crazy Times
as Mrs. Keagan
1981
All Night Long
as Grandmother Gibbons
19815.2
Little Mo
as Aunt Gert
1978
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as Grandma Lundy
1977
Flood!
as Emma Fisher
1977
Dead of Night
as Mrs. McCauley
19776.2
The Gumball Rally
as Mrs. Ontley
19766.1
The Macahans
as Grandma
1976