Dorothy Devore
Birthday
1899/06/20
Day of death
1976/09/10 (77 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Also know as
Alma Inez Williams, Dorothy De Vore
Biography
Dorothy Devore (June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976) was a leading and popular American silent-film actor and comedian in her time. Born as Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1899, her family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl. It was there where she completed her education and then joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. It was at Universal where she was "discovered" by ...Read more
Acting
(1930) Take the Heir
as Susan
(1921) Magnificent Brute
as ---
(1925) The Midnight Flyer
as Mary Baxter
(1920) 45 Minutes from Broadway
as Mary Jane Jenkins
(1918) Know Thy Wife
as Betty Browning
(1924) Stay Single
as ---
(1926) Senor Daredevil
as Sally Blake
(1939) Miracle on Main Street
as Woman in Church
(1923) Navy Blues
as Mrs. James Warren
(1923) Winter Has Came
as Mary
(1919) 'Twas Midnight
as ---
(1921) Nothing Like It
as ---
(1924) The Tomboy
as Tommy Smith
(1924) Hold Your Breath
as Mabel
(1918) The House Cleaning Horrors
as Dorothy
(1925) The Prairie Wife
as Chaddie Green
(1925) A Broadway Butterfly
as Irene Astaire
(1925) The Narrow Street
as Doris
(1926) The Gilded Highway
as Primrose Welby
(1925) His Majesty, Bunker Bean
as Marie Breede
(1921) Saving Sister Susie
as ---
(1927) The Wrong Mr. Wright
as Teddy
(1923) Pick and Shovel
as ---
(1926) The Man Upstairs
as Marion Larnard
(1923) Kidding Katie
as Katie
(1924) Getting Gertie's Goat
as Gertie
(1925) Who Cares
as Joan
(1925) How Baxter Butted In
as Beulah Dyer
(1918) String Beans
as Minor Role
(1919) The Girl Dodger
as ---
(1918) The Law of the North
as ---
(1922) Fair Enough
as Dolly aka Dolly the Dip