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Ann Shoemaker

Ann Shoemaker

Actor · 1891–1978 · 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.

Acted in 50

1970s

  1. 1976

    Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

    Mrs. Wallace

1960s

  1. 1966

    The Fortune Cookie

    Sister Veronica

    75

  2. Mission: Impossible

    Madame Prokov · 1 episode

    78
  3. 1960

    Sunrise at Campobello

    Sara Delano Roosevelt

1950s

  1. 1953

    Revlon Mirror Theatre

    TV

  2. 1950

    House by the River

    Mrs. Ambrose

    67

1940s

  1. 1949

    The Reckless Moment

    Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)

    70

  2. Shockproof

    Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)

  3. A Woman's Secret

    Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother

  4. 1948

    Wallflower

    Mrs. James

  5. The Return of the Whistler

    Mrs. Barkley

  6. Sitting Pretty

    Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)

  7. 1947

    Magic Town

    Ma Peterman

  8. 1945

    Conflict

    Nora Grant

    70

  9. Boogie Woogie

    Mrs. Stumplefinger

  10. Phantoms, Inc.

    Mrs. Martha Kenneson

  11. What a Blonde

    Mrs. DaFoe

  12. 1944

    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    Mrs. Parker

    78

  13. It's Murder

    Mrs Nelson

  14. Mr. Winkle Goes to War

    Movie

  15. Man from Frisco

    Martha Kennedy

  16. 1943

    What a Woman

    Senator's Wife (uncredited)

  17. Above Suspicion

    Aunt Ellen

  18. 1941

    You'll Never Get Rich

    Mrs. Barton

    70

  19. Scattergood Pulls the Strings

    Mrs. Downs

  20. 1940

    Ellery Queen, Master Detective

    Lydia Braun

  21. Strike Up the Band

    Mrs. Connors

    65

  22. The Girl from Avenue A

    Mrs. Maddox

  23. My Favorite Wife

    Ma

    73

  24. An Angel from Texas

    Addie Lou Coleman

  25. Curtain Call

    Mrs. Middleton

  26. The Farmer's Daughter

    Mrs. Bingham

  27. The Marines Fly High

    Mrs. Hill

  28. Seventeen

    Mary Baxter

1930s

  1. 1939

    Babes in Arms

    Mrs. Barton

  2. They All Come Out

    Dr. Ellen Hollis

  3. Almost a Gentleman

    Mrs. Thompson

  4. Romance of the Redwoods

    Mother Manning

  5. 1937

    The Life of the Party

    Countess Martos

  6. Stella Dallas

    Miss Margaret Phillibrown

    75

  7. They Won't Forget

    Mrs. Mountford

  8. Shall We Dance

    Matron

  9. 1936

    Sins of Man

    Anna Engel

  10. 1935

    Alice Adams

    Mrs. Adams

  11. Stranded

    Mrs. Tuthill

  12. A Dog of Flanders

    Ilse Cogez

  13. 1934

    Cheating Cheaters

    Mrs. Grace Palmer

  14. Dr. Monica

    Mrs. Hazlitt

  15. Cross Country Cruise

    Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)

  16. 1933

    Chance at Heaven

    Mrs. Harris