Ann Doran
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| Born |
Ann Lee Doran July 28, 1911 Amarillo, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | September 19, 2000 (aged 89) Carmichael, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1922–88 |
Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress.
Doran was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Doran; her mother was an actress whose professional name was given as Rose Allen in two sources and Carrie Barnett in another source. She was born in Amarillo, Texas, and attended high school in San Bernardino, California.
Doran began acting at the age of four. (A 1979 newspaper article said that Doran's debut came when she was 11 years old.)
She appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names to keep her father's family from finding out about her work. Rarely in a featured role (with the exception of James Dean's dominating mother in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)), Doran appeared in more than five hundred motion pictures and one thousand episodes of television shows, such as the American Civil War drama Gray Ghost.
Doran worked as a stand-in, then bit player, then incidental supporting player. By 1938 she was under contract to Columbia Pictures, where the company policy was to use the members of its stock company as often as possible. Thus, Doran appears in Columbia's serials (such as The Spider's Web and Flying G-Men), short subjects (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 favorite of Columbia director Frank Capra and appears in many of his productions. Most of these appearances were supporting roles, although she did play leads in Columbia's Charley Chase comedies of 1938-40 and in one Charles Starrett western feature, the Sam Nelson-directed Rio Grande (1938).
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