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Cara Williams
Born: 1925-06-29 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Rated Filmography (22)
Sorted by Score10.0
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
10.0
Girls' Town
1942
8.2
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
7.6
Laura
1944
7.1
Happy Land
1943
7.1
The Defiant Ones
1958
7.1
Sitting Pretty
1948
7.1
Boomerang!
1947
7.0
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
6.8
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
6.5
Something for the Boys
1944
6.5
Wide Open Town
1941
6.2
Knock on Any Door
1949
6.0
The White Buffalo
1977
5.8
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963
5.6
The Spider
1945
5.4
The One Man Jury
1978
5.3
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
5.0
Doctors' Wives
1971
5.0
The Girl Next Door
1953
4.6
The Saxon Charm
1948
4.5
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956