Acting
Ann Shoemaker
Also Known As: Anne Dorothea Shoemaker
Birth Date
January 9, 1891
Death Date
September 18, 1978
(passed away at 87)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Biography
Ann Shoemaker was an American character actress whose prolific career spanned over five decades across theater, radio, film and television. She appeared in roughly 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976, frequently portraying refined, commanding or maternal figures, most famously playing Sara Delano Roosevelt (the mother of FDR) on both Broadway and in the acclaimed 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello.
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Mission: Impossible
Madame Prokov
1966 • 1 episode
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953 • 1 episode
The Fortune Cookie
Sister Veronica
1966
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Mrs. Parker
1944
My Favorite Wife
Ma
1940
A Woman's Secret
Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
1949
You'll Never Get Rich
Mrs. Barton
1941
Magic Town
Ma Peterman
1947
Conflict
Nora Grant
1945
Above Suspicion
Aunt Ellen
1943
Babes in Arms
Mrs. Barton
1939
House by the River
Mrs. Ambrose
1950
The Reckless Moment
Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
1949
They Won't Forget
Mrs. Mountford
1937
Strike Up the Band
Mrs. Connors
1940
Stella Dallas
Miss Margaret Phillibrown
1937
Alice Adams
Mrs. Adams
1935
Sitting Pretty
Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
1948
Shockproof
Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
1949
The Return of the Whistler
Mrs. Barkley
1948