Date of birth: 1911-07-28
Place of birth: Amarillo, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ann Lee Doran

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.

1955-10-27
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although

1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme

1938-11-30
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion i

1969-12-17
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French int

1949-08-25
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a l

1942-02-20
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck.

1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and

1942-09-24
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers.

1948-08-11
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned

1939-08-17
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unj

1949-02-06
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens

1946-08-19
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious M

1958-07-31
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the resc

1938-09-01
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K

1947-04-10
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a siniste

1939-05-11
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

1957-03-01
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of

1951-09-01
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

1971-08-11
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had give

1942-10-03
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling constr

1968-10-23
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding ti

1964-11-04
Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from

1952-02-23
A dance instructor falls in love with a smart theatre agent; while he returns her affections, it's j

1944-12-18
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WA

1941-04-24
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after

1948-11-04
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arr

1951-05-04
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that

1939-12-01
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are work

1950-12-27
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

1939-01-28
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The B

1940-05-17
Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and

1939-05-05
At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.

1954-07-03
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit as

1947-03-19
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective.

1969-11-18
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

1941-03-24
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the

1947-12-13
A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind

1947-07-18
Jewel thieves battle investigators.

1958-08-13
Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wif

1945-08-24
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his

1964-11-02
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.

1943-10-28
On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

1969-11-12
A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her

1947-05-01
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and lea

1940-07-24
The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, job-seekers and fugitives - either running from or

1966-11-02
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis

1977-03-29
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a t

1949-02-03
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says
1948-10-21
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life,
1947-08-07
The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran co

1967-10-23
The Hostage is a 1967 Crown International low-budget motion picture starring Don O'Kelly, James Alma

1948-04-08
Faithful dog Rusty helps his master's father win a mayoral race.

1936-09-25
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic s

1942-06-25
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the

1981-03-06
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore.

1936-09-10
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty R

1958-05-10
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer t

1938-03-02
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she

1947-03-28
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United

1943-09-09
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a

1950-04-12
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b

1945-01-31
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerou

1975-01-24
At the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farm

1950-08-29
Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "p

1951-05-04
A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 19

1958-07-01
Rich college fraternity boy tries to get small-town beauty contest winner to fall for him by making

1936-05-07
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.

1959-08-24
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a

1981-08-21
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a fr

1958-11-23
Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.

1957-05-04
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his hench

1959-10-01
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist s

1950-04-27
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages

1947-08-29
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char

1936-03-02
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse p

1936-11-28
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran

1937-06-23
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, an

1967-11-22
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have

1975-02-19
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find

1941-06-27
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
1949-11-03
A lost dog tries to find his way back to his beloved master in the final film of the Rusty series.

1938-12-05
Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.

1935-10-25
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the wo

1952-02-23
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with ga

1958-01-22
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursu

1952-05-15
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run

1954-10-24
Film biography of the Olympics Decathlon champion, with the famous athlete and his wife playing them

1953-07-15
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

1943-12-24
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents

1944-07-12
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding

1938-10-21
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The

1963-12-25
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an

1947-10-07
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview

1943-05-13
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C.

1947-07-02
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The hus

1971-11-27
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previous

1949-06-30
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a posit

1953-12-25
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radi
1954-05-05
When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once atten

1939-07-14
Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car deal

1949-01-12
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

1958-09-01
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town

1948-05-28
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h

1948-11-05
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World W

1936-06-05
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughte

1937-11-17
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace M

1939-01-05
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police C

1949-09-05
Johnny Barrows, a young man heading toward a life of juvenile delinquency as his home life spirals o

1954-06-16
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southw

1938-03-03
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e

1940-07-11
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When

1937-01-24
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture

1944-06-10
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysittin

1957-10-30
Tommy Price is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested in thrills, hot rods and girls. His fr

1939-03-29
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence

1934-09-01
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of

1939-06-20
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor

1939-08-04
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Br
1938-09-15
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a

1938-04-29
A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his weddi

1938-03-17
Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, sa

1948-03-18
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

1959-04-01
When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see

1943-01-13
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small

1950-08-19
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widow

1938-10-12
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her
1940-10-18
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.

1938-05-26
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the s

1940-12-25
A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her pre

1981-12-21
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising

1981-11-30
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the

1940-07-24
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community f

1977-11-06
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil

1981-04-10
Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens,

1943-03-20
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and

1958-01-25
In this western two wagon masters are wrongfully accused of driving their wagon train in to a Comanc

1939-10-03
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woma

1964-05-20
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

1978-09-05
Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand

1942-01-06
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get

1953-09-05
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrad

1940-02-08
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their c

1940-01-18
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star

1940-01-08
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske

1938-07-01
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle"

1949-10-01
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita

1948-02-01
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in

1942-10-15
This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smi

1941-09-19
Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low pr
1938-06-27
Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass)

1959-11-18
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children beg

1938-12-08
No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp C

1936-02-15
Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engage

1952-08-24
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose

1964-04-08
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around

1949-10-21
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man

1941-08-29
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwe

1935-11-15
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangs

1944-07-04
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to esca

1944-05-25
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth

1937-11-25
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper

1948-11-22
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman

1937-09-01
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and

1949-03-03
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged

1951-02-05
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and

1986-02-14
High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet

1970-12-08
Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.

1948-11-12
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for

1958-01-29
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and h

1938-12-29
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.

1941-10-31
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s

1957-11-22
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more re

1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

1942-05-29
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M.

1941-08-30
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protec

1941-03-14
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who

1943-04-01
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne

1940-09-27
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.

1943-11-27
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

1942-06-11
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her si

1949-06-25
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite

1939-09-08
Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce

1970-09-18
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among

1955-10-05
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

1949-09-20
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Befor

1974-05-07
A humanistic account of "The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills," in which Charles Arthur Floyd is port

1937-08-06
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

1938-05-09
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.

1940-11-29
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it

1938-12-25
Charley falls for a waitress who mistakes him for a gangster.

1938-08-19
Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.

1974-04-16
In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes a

1976-07-28
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gum

1977-06-05
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an ag

1965-10-29
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a ma

1976-01-19
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into

1935-10-25
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can

1958-09-03
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out
1954-07-04
A dramatization of the problems of a middle-aged man who, after being discharged from a tuberculosis

1971-09-14
A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover

1959-05-15
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff h