Cara Williams
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 29, 1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Died
- December 9, 2021
- Movies
- 22
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1978 | The One Man Jury | Nancy |
| 1977 | The White Buffalo | Cassie Ollinger |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Maggie Gray |
| 1963 | The Man from the Diners' Club | Sugar Pye |
| 1959 | Never Steal Anything Small | Winnipeg Simmons |
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Billy's mother |
| 1957 | The Helen Morgan Story | Dolly Evans |
| 1956 | Meet Me in Las Vegas | Kelly Donavan |
| 1954 | The Great Diamond Robbery | Maggie Drumman |
| 1953 | The Girl Next Door | Rosie Green |
| 1949 | Knock on Any Door | Nelly Watkins (uncredited) |
| 1948 | The Saxon Charm | Dolly Humber |
| 1948 | Sitting Pretty | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Boomerang! | Irene Nelson |
| 1945 | The Spider | Wanda Vann |
| 1945 | Don Juan Quilligan | Fifth Ave. Florist Salesgirl |
| 1944 | Something for the Boys | Calhoun's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Laura | Advertising Agency Employee (uncredited) |
| 1944 | In the Meantime, Darling | Ruby Mae Sayre |
| 1943 | Happy Land | Gretchen Barry |
| 1942 | Girls' Town | Ethel |
| 1941 | Wide Open Town | Joan Stuart |
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