Ann Carter

born: 20 February 1910 New York City, New York, United States of America

died: 11 June 1967 Syracuse, New York, United States of America (age 57)

Blonde, hazel-eyed American actress and soprano singer, later known as Ann Heath. Her uncle was playwright Lincoln J. Carter, from whom she took her first professional surname. After a Hollywood acting career, she began performing on the radio and on stage in Schubert musical comedies and Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Settling in Syracuse, New York, in the 1940s after her marriage to G. Norman Knaus (1883-1956), with whom she had two daughters, Ann later founded the Syracuse Symphony, serving as president and member of its board of directors. After Knaus' death, she married British film and stage actor Eric W. Gates (1922-1969). She is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Syracuse. Not to be confused with Annie Carter.

Real name: Dorothy Ann Moser

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1927 What Women Did For Me Student MISCELLANEOUS (click any image to enlarge) Acknowledgements: Dorothy A M??R, "New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965" (Ancestry.com) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5SZ-LQT (1910 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4PG-292 (1920 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQGC-TZM (1940 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XPG-1ZHW (1950 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLSR-TWY1 (1959 marriage) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105392150 (Find a Grave -- reprints obituary with extensive biography) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-feb-1927/page/n1326/mode/1up?q=%22ann+carter%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Jun 1927) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-feb-1927/page/232/mode/1up?q=%22ann+carter%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Jul 1927) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-oct-1927/page/n164/mode/1up?q=%22ann+carter%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Oct 1927) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-oct-1927/page/n476/mode/1up?q=%22or+egon+9245%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Nov 1927) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-oct-1927/page/n775/mode/1up?q=%22or+egon+9245%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Dec 1927) https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew1929moti/page/60/mode/1up?q=%22carter+anon%22 (1929 Motion Picture News Blue Book) https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew1930moti/page/39/mode/1up?q=%22carter+ann%22 (1930 Motion Picture News Blue Book) https://archive.org/details/pictureplaymagaz27unse/page/n222/mode/1up?q=%22ann+carter%22 (Picture Play, Oct 1927) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1059094212/ (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 13 Jul 1930) https://archive.org/details/radio-guide-1934-10-27/page/n13/mode/1up?q=%22ann+heath%22 (Radio Guide, week ending 27 Oct 1934) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1096759622/ (Syracuse Herald-Journal, 12 Jun 1967) https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?keyword=%22dorothy+ann+moser%22&sort=paper-date-asc (Newspapers.com, search) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24HZ-VXX (parents' marriage, 1909) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z87K-73W2 (father's re-marriage, 1922) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:47ZJ-PMN2 (stepmother's obituary extract, 1945) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:47C4-CQZM (stepmother's obituary extract, 1945) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:47CT-6K2M (stepmother's obituary extract, 1945) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in What Women Did For Me) This page was last updated on: 21 February 2026