Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 09, 1891
Died
Sep 18, 1978
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Credits
52 titles
Ann Shoemaker
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.
Known For
Filmography
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Mrs. Wallace
Roberta
Aunt Minnie
The Fortune Cookie
Sister Veronica
Mission: Impossible
Madame Prokov
Sunrise at Campobello
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Middle of the Night
Millie
Revlon Mirror Theatre
House by the River
Mrs. Ambrose - Stephen's houseeper
The Reckless Moment
Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
Shockproof
Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
A Woman's Secret
Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
Wallflower
Mrs. James
The Return of the Whistler
Mrs. Barkley
Sitting Pretty
Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
Magic Town
Ma Peterman
Conflict
Nora Grant
Boogie Woogie
Mrs. Stumplefinger
Phantoms, Inc.
Mrs. Martha Kenneson
What a Blonde
Mrs. DaFoe
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Mrs. Parker
It's Murder
Mrs Nelson
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Man from Frisco
Martha Kennedy
What a Woman
Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
Aunt Ellen
You'll Never Get Rich
Mrs. Barton
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Mrs. Downs
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Lydia Braun
Strike Up the Band
Mrs. Connors
The Girl from Avenue A
Mrs. Maddox
My Favorite Wife
Ma
An Angel from Texas
Addie Lou Coleman
Curtain Call
Mrs. Middleton
The Farmer's Daughter
Mrs. Bingham
The Marines Fly High
Mrs. Hill
Seventeen
Mary Baxter
Babes in Arms
Mrs. Barton
They All Come Out
Dr. Ellen Hollis
Almost a Gentleman
Mrs. Thompson
Romance of the Redwoods
Mother Manning
The Life of the Party
Countess Martos
Stella Dallas
Miss Margaret Phillibrown
They Won't Forget
Mrs. Mountford
Shall We Dance
Matron
Sins of Man
Anna Engel
Alice Adams
Mrs. Adams
Stranded
Mrs. Tuthill
A Dog of Flanders
Ilse Cogez
Cheating Cheaters
Mrs. Grace Palmer
Dr. Monica
Mrs. Hazlitt