
Cara Williams
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

The Defiant Ones
1958

Something for the Boys
1944

The Spider
1945

Boomerang!
1947

The Helen Morgan Story
1957

Knock on Any Door
1949

Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956

The Man from the Diners' Club
1963

The Great Diamond Robbery
1954

Doctors' Wives
1971

The One Man Jury
1978

Never Steal Anything Small
1959

Happy Land
1943

Girls' Town
1942

Laura
1944

The White Buffalo
1977

Sitting Pretty
1948

The Girl Next Door
1953

Wide Open Town
1941

In the Meantime, Darling
1944

Don Juan Quilligan
1945

The Saxon Charm
1948

Rhoda
1974

Naked City
1958

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Pete and Gladys
1960

Matinee Theater
1955

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

The Cara Williams Show
1964

The Oscars
1953

Suspense
1949

The Red Skelton Show
1951

The Red Skelton Show
1951

Suspense
1949

Suspense
1949

Suspense
1949

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958

Medical Center
1969