Ann Robinson
Biography
Ann Robinson was an American actress who also worked as a stunt horse rider. An accomplished rider, she broke into Hollywood as a stunt rider in Frenchie, doubling for Shelley Winters. Paramount Pictures signed her in the early 1950s, and her first leading role came as Sylvia Van Buren in The War of the Worlds (1953), a role she returned to on the War of the Worlds television series and in later films. She played a Los Angeles police officer in Dragnet (1954) and appeared in Imitation of Life (1959) and Julie (1956), and she rode in Westerns including Gun Duel in Durango (1957). On television she was Helen Watkins in ten episodes of Fury between 1955 and 1959, and she performed voice work in English and Spanish, including the lead dubbing for To Begin Again, which took the best foreign film Oscar in 1984. She died in 2025.
96years old at death
- Born Hollywood
- Died
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 52 years1953 to 2005
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First role
Robinson's first professional Hollywood work came from her skill as a rider: she was a stunt horse rider in the film Frenchie, doubling for Shelley Winters.
Languages
Robinson also did voice-over work for films, in English and in Spanish. In To Begin Again, she voiced the leading actress, and the film took the 1984 Oscar for best foreign film.
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Worked with
Ann Robinson shares two films with Jack Kruschen, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Byron HaskinDirector, 1 film, 1953
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