Ann Doran
Ann Doran was born in Amarillo, Texas, United States on July 28th, 1911 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 89, Ann Doran biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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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.
Early years
The daughter of Carrie A. Barnett and John R. Doran, her mother was a silent-film actress whose professional name was Rose Allen. Ann Doran was born in Amarillo, Texas, and attended high school in San Bernardino, California.
Film career
Doran began acting at the age of four. Doran's debut came when she was 11 years old, according to a 1979 newspaper story.) Doran appeared in more than 500 motion pictures and 1,000 episodes of television series, including the American Civil War drama Gray Ghost.
Doran began as a stand-in, bit player, and then incidental support player. By 1938, she was under contract with Columbia Pictures, where the company's policy was to use the members of its stock company as often as possible. Doran appears in Columbia's serials (such as The Spider's Web and Flying G-Men), short stories (including those of The Three Stooges, Charley Chase, Andy Clyde, Harry Langdon, and Vera Vague), B features (including the Blondie, Five Little Peppers and Ellery Queen series) and major feature films. She became a fan of Columbia director Frank Capra and appears in several of his films. The majority of these appearances were supporting roles, although she did appear in Columbia's Charley Chase comedies from 1938 to 1940, as well as in one Charles Starkt western film, the Sam Nelson-directed Rio Grande (1938).
In 1945–46, Columbia produced two boy-and-his-dog stories with youth actor Ted Donaldson. Doran was in the next six films when the Donaldson films became a full fledged series (featuring the dog Rusty). Rebel Without a Cause was based on her continuing, intelligent maternal roles, leading to her appearance as James Dean's mother.