credits of
Dorothy Davenport
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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May 14th, 1934 | The Road to Ruin | Mrs. Merrill (uncredited) | 4.3 | |
May 23rd, 1933 | Man Hunt | Mrs. Scott | 7 | |
April 30th, 1928 | Hellship Bronson | Mrs. Bronson | 8 | |
July 24th, 1927 | The Satin Woman | Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid) | 10 | |
November 16th, 1925 | The Red Kimona | Woman Telling the Story (uncredited) | 5.8 | |
November 9th, 1924 | Broken Laws | Joan Allen | 8 | |
June 17th, 1923 | Human Wreckage | Ethel MacFarland | 7 | |
August 1st, 1920 | The Fighting Chance | Leila Mortimer | 7 | |
October 5th, 1918 | His Extra Bit | The Wife | 8 | |
July 26th, 1917 | The Squaw Man's Son | Edith, Lady Effington | TBD | |
May 14th, 1917 | Treason | Luella Brysk | TBD | |
February 26th, 1917 | The Girl and the Crisis | Ellen Wilmot | TBD | |
February 5th, 1917 | The Scarlet Crystal | Marie Delys | TBD | |
January 1st, 1917 | Mothers of Men | Clara Madison | 4 | |
December 15th, 1916 | The Wrong Heart | TBD | 7 | |
November 20th, 1916 | The Devil's Bondwoman | Beverly Hope | TBD | |
October 16th, 1916 | Barriers of Society | Martha Gorham | TBD | |
September 18th, 1916 | Black Friday | Elionor Rossitor | TBD | |
September 4th, 1916 | The Unattainable | Bessie Gale | TBD | |
August 14th, 1916 | A Yoke of Gold | Carner | TBD | |
July 3rd, 1916 | The Way of the World | Beatrice Farley | 1 | |
May 1st, 1916 | Doctor Neighbor | Hazel Rogers | TBD | |
December 9th, 1915 | The Unknown | Nancy Preston | 2 | |
December 2nd, 1915 | Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | Grand Duchess Feodora | TBD | |
July 11th, 1915 | In Humble Guise | Grace Hunt | 7 | |
October 12th, 1914 | The Test of Manhood | Ethel Crandall | 10 | |
June 24th, 1914 | The Den of Thieves | Dorothy | TBD | |
June 17th, 1914 | 'Cross the Mexican Line | Dorothy West | TBD | |
June 10th, 1914 | A Wife on a Wager | TBD | TBD | |
June 3rd, 1914 | Love's Western Flight | Dorothy | TBD | |
May 27th, 1914 | Passing of the Beast | The Mountie's Wife | TBD | |
May 20th, 1914 | The Man Within | TBD | TBD | |
May 13th, 1914 | The Siren | Renee | TBD | |
May 6th, 1914 | The Quack | Mary Rohan | TBD | |
April 29th, 1914 | Women and Roses | Wallace's Mistress | TBD | |
April 22nd, 1914 | The Fruit of Evil | TBD | TBD | |
April 20th, 1914 | The Skeleton | Jack's Wife | TBD | |
April 15th, 1914 | The Test | The Poor Man's Wife | 5 | |
April 8th, 1914 | A Gypsy Romance | Queen of the Gypsies | TBD | |
April 1st, 1914 | Cupid Incognito | Angela Graham | TBD | |
March 26th, 1914 | The Spider and Her Web | TBD | TBD | |
March 18th, 1914 | The Way of a Woman | Dorothy | TBD | |
March 15th, 1914 | The Mountaineer | Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart | TBD | |
March 12th, 1914 | The Heart of the Hills | The Government Detective | TBD | |
March 4th, 1914 | The Voice of the Viola | Dorothy | TBD | |
February 25th, 1914 | Breed o' the Mountains | Sue Jarvis | TBD | |
February 18th, 1914 | A Flash in the Dark | Mrs. Randall | TBD | |
February 11th, 1914 | The Greater Devotion | TBD | TBD | |
February 4th, 1914 | Fires of Conscience | Ethel | TBD | |
January 28th, 1914 | The Wheel of Life | The Prospector's Wife | TBD | |
January 21st, 1914 | The Countess Betty's Mine | Countess Betty Ardmore | TBD | |
January 14th, 1914 | The Intruder | The Woodsman's Sweetheart | TBD | |
December 31st, 1913 | A Hopi Legend | TBD | TBD | |
December 24th, 1913 | The Lightning Bolt | Dot | TBD | |
December 19th, 1913 | A Cracksman Santa Claus | Dot | TBD | |
December 10th, 1913 | Retribution | Dorothy | TBD | |
November 20th, 1913 | The Fires of Fate | Dot - Wally's Sweetheart | TBD | |
November 14th, 1913 | The Cracksman's Reformation | Dorothy | TBD | |
October 10th, 1913 | The Revelation | Mrs. Burns | 10 | |
August 22nd, 1913 | The Spark of Manhood | Maud Brewster | TBD | |
February 10th, 1913 | Pierre of the North | Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter | TBD | |
October 9th, 1912 | His Only Son | Jessie Carter | TBD | |
April 16th, 1912 | Her Indian Hero | Veda Mead | 4.7 | |
January 15th, 1912 | A Brave Little Woman | Clara Lyttell | 4 | |
December 12th, 1910 | The Golden Supper | Flower Girl | 4.5 | |
November 17th, 1910 | The Troublesome Baby | Girl at Station | 10 | |
October 6th, 1910 | A Gold Necklace | A Friend | 5.5 | |
September 21st, 1910 | The Oath and the Man | Aristocrat | 4.5 |