Cast
Dorothy Davenport
Acting
Cast
Dorothy Davenport
Known for
Acting
Born
1895-03-13
From
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died
1977-10-12
Also known as Fannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Reid, Dot Reid
Biography
Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith. While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid was injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large doses of morphine to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew worse over the next few years, and he died of the addiction in 1923. After Reid's death, Davenport and Thomas Ince co-produced the film Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, a film that dealt with the dangers of narcotics addiction. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow engagement, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-love called Broken Laws in 1924, again billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband's notorious death. She then produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the film in silent narration or prologue. The details of the latter film were so realistic that Davenport was successfully sued. She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue director. Among her last credits are co-author of the screenplay for Footsteps in the Fog (1955), and as dialogue director for The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) with Ginger Rogers. She and husband Wallace Reid had two children. She was married to him until his death on January 18, 1923. She never remarried. Dorothy Davenport died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in 1977 in Woodland Hills, California. She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Davenport, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MOVIE1916
Black Friday
as Elionor Rossitor
★2.0
MOVIE1915
The Unknown
as Nancy Preston
★10.0
MOVIE1913
The Revelation
as Mrs. Burns
★7.0
MOVIE1923
Human Wreckage
as Ethel MacFarland
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Broken Laws
as Joan Allen
MOVIE1917
Treason
as Luella Brysk
MOVIE1914
The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector's Wife
★5.5
MOVIE1910
A Gold Necklace
as A Friend
MOVIE1914
The Quack
as Mary Rohan
★4.5
MOVIE1910
The Oath and the Man
as Aristocrat
MOVIE1916
The Devil's Bondwoman
as Beverly Hope
MOVIE1914
Women and Roses
as Wallace's Mistress
MOVIE1914
The Siren
as Renee
★10.0
MOVIE1927
The Satin Woman
as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
★7.0
MOVIE1920
The Fighting Chance
as Leila Mortimer
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Hellship Bronson
as Mrs. Bronson
★4.7
MOVIE1912
Her Indian Hero
as Veda Mead
MOVIE1914
The Voice of the Viola
as Dorothy
★5.0
MOVIE1914
The Test
as The Poor Man's Wife
MOVIE1914
Love's Western Flight
as Dorothy
MOVIE1914
The Countess Betty's Mine
as Countess Betty Ardmore
★10.0
MOVIE1910
The Troublesome Baby
as Girl at Station
★10.0
MOVIE1914
The Test of Manhood
as Ethel Crandall
MOVIE1914
A Flash in the Dark
as Mrs. Randall
MOVIE1914
The Heart of the Hills
as The Government Detective
★4.3
MOVIE1934
The Road to Ruin
as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
MOVIE1914
The Mountaineer
as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
★4.5
MOVIE1910
The Golden Supper
as Flower Girl
MOVIE1914
The Skeleton
as Jack's Wife
MOVIE1916
Barriers of Society
as Martha Gorham
MOVIE1917
The Squaw Man's Son
as Edith, Lady Effington
★4.0
MOVIE1912
A Brave Little Woman
as Clara Lyttell
MOVIE1913
A Hopi Legend
★5.8
MOVIE1925
The Red Kimona
as Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
MOVIE1912
His Only Son
as Jessie Carter
MOVIE1913
Pierre of the North
as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
MOVIE1914
The Way of a Woman
as Dorothy
★8.0
MOVIE1918
His Extra Bit
as The Wife
MOVIE1915
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
as Grand Duchess Feodora
★7.0
MOVIE1915
In Humble Guise
as Grace Hunt
MOVIE1914
The Fruit of Evil
MOVIE1914
The Greater Devotion
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Man Hunt
as Mrs. Scott
MOVIE1914
A Gypsy Romance
as Queen of the Gypsies
MOVIE1916
Doctor Neighbor
as Hazel Rogers
MOVIE1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Dot
MOVIE1914
The Intruder
as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
MOVIE1914
Passing of the Beast
as The Mountie's Wife
★4.0
MOVIE1917
Mothers of Men
as Clara Madison
MOVIE1914
Fires of Conscience
as Ethel
MOVIE1914
The Spider and Her Web
MOVIE1914
The Den of Thieves
as Dorothy
MOVIE1914
Breed o' the Mountains
as Sue Jarvis
MOVIE1916
The Unattainable
as Bessie Gale
MOVIE1917
The Girl and the Crisis
as Ellen Wilmot
MOVIE1917
The Scarlet Crystal
as Marie Delys
MOVIE1913
The Cracksman's Reformation
as Dorothy
MOVIE1914
Cupid Incognito
as Angela Graham
MOVIE1914
The Man Within
MOVIE1913
The Fires of Fate
as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
MOVIE1914
A Wife on a Wager
MOVIE1913
The Spark of Manhood
as Maud Brewster
MOVIE1913
Retribution
as Dorothy
★7.0
MOVIE1916
The Wrong Heart
MOVIE1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
as Dorothy West
★1.0
MOVIE1916
The Way of the World
as Beatrice Farley
MOVIE1916
A Yoke of Gold
as Carner
MOVIE1913
The Lightning Bolt
as Dot