Name
Cara Williams
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1925-06-29
Deathday
2021-12-09 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cara Williams was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the television series Pete and Gladys, which ran from 1960-1962 and for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.
Known For
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In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he ha...
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An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal t...
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Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if ...
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Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it...
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The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiqui...
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Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysit...
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When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut t...
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The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on t...
- 1958 The Defiant Ones as Billy's mother
- 1944 Something for the Boys as Calhoun's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1945 The Spider as Wanda Vann
- 1947 Boomerang! as Irene Nelson
- 1957 The Helen Morgan Story as Dolly Evans
- 1949 Knock on Any Door as Nelly Watkins (uncredited)
- 1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas as Kelly Donavan
- 1963 The Man from the Diners' Club as Sugar Pye
- 1954 The Great Diamond Robbery as Maggie Drumman
- 1971 Doctors' Wives as Maggie Gray
- 1978 The One Man Jury as Nancy
- 1959 Never Steal Anything Small as Winnipeg Simmons
- 1943 Happy Land as Gretchen Barry
- 1942 Girls' Town as Ethel
- 1944 Laura as Advertising Agency Employee (uncredited)
- 1977 The White Buffalo as Cassie Ollinger
- 1948 Sitting Pretty as Secretary (uncredited)
- 1953 The Girl Next Door as Rosie Green
- 1941 Wide Open Town as Joan Stuart
- 1944 In the Meantime, Darling as Ruby Mae Sayre
- 1945 Don Juan Quilligan as Fifth Ave. Florist Salesgirl
- 1948 The Saxon Charm as Dolly Humber
- 1974 Rhoda ( 2 episodes )
- 1958 Naked City ( 1 episode ) as Lois Heller
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Mona Cameron
- 1960 Pete and Gladys ( 72 episodes ) as Gladys Porter
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 1 episode )
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 1 episode )
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Irene West
- 1964 The Cara Williams Show ( 30 episodes ) as Cara Wilton/Bridges
- 1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode ) as Nellie
- 1951 The Red Skelton Show ( 1 episode ) as Clara Appleby
- 1951 The Red Skelton Show ( 2 episodes ) as Raggedy Ann
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Paula
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode ) as Betty Marshall
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode ) as Babe
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode ) as Myra Wilson
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Irene Rankin
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Mona Carstairs
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Marie Jensen
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Midge Rospond
- 1969 Medical Center ( 1 episode ) as Sheila Ruskin
