Cara Williams
Biography
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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.
Filmography
The One Man Jury
1978
as Nancy
The White Buffalo
1977
as Cassie Ollinger
Doctors' Wives
1971
as Maggie Gray
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963
as Sugar Pye
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
as Winnipeg Simmons
The Defiant Ones
1958
as Billy's mother
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
as Dolly Evans
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956
as Kelly Donavan
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
as Maggie Drumman
The Girl Next Door
1953
as Rosie Green
Knock on Any Door
1949
as Nelly Watkins (uncredited)
The Saxon Charm
1948
as Dolly Humber
Sitting Pretty
1948
as Secretary (uncredited)
Boomerang!
1947
as Irene Nelson
The Spider
1945
as Wanda Vann
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
as Fifth Ave. Florist Salesgirl
Something for the Boys
1944
as Calhoun's Secretary (uncredited)
Laura
1944
as Advertising Agency Employee (uncredited)
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
as Ruby Mae Sayre
Happy Land
1943
as Gretchen Barry
Girls' Town
1942
as Ethel
Wide Open Town
1941
as Joan Stuart