
Acting
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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.

The One Man Jury
as Nancy

The White Buffalo
as Cassie Ollinger

Doctors' Wives
as Maggie Gray

The Man from the Diners' Club
as Sugar Pye

Never Steal Anything Small
as Winnipeg Simmons

The Defiant Ones
as Billy's mother

The Helen Morgan Story
as Dolly Evans

Meet Me in Las Vegas
as Kelly Donavan

The Great Diamond Robbery
as Maggie Drumman

The Girl Next Door
as Rosie Green

Rhoda
2 ep.

Medical Center
as Sheila Ruskin · 1 ep.

The Cara Williams Show
as Cara Wilton/Bridges · 30 ep.

Pete and Gladys
as Gladys Porter · 72 ep.

Naked City
as Lois Heller · 1 ep.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Midge Rospond · 1 ep.

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Irene West · 1 ep.

Matinee Theater
1 ep.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marie Jensen · 1 ep.

The Oscars
as Self · 1 ep.
Knock on Any Door
1949