Dorothy Davenport
Age: N/A | From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Fannie Dorothy Davenport , Dorothy Reid , Dot Reid , Mrs. Wallace Reid
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 84
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Treason
(1917) Luella Brysk
The Red Kimona
(1925) Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
Broken Laws
(1924) Joan Allen
Hellship Bronson
(1928) Mrs. Bronson
Love's Western Flight
(1914) Dorothy
Man Hunt
(1933) Mrs. Scott
The Golden Supper
(1910) Flower Girl
Mothers of Men
(1917) Clara MadisonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | Mrs. Scott | |
| 1928 | Mrs. Bronson | |
| 1927 | Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid) | |
| 1925 | Woman Telling the Story (uncredited) | |
| 1924 | Joan Allen | |
| 1923 | Ethel MacFarland | |
| 1920 | Leila Mortimer | |
| 1918 | The Wife | |
| 1917 | Edith, Lady Effington | |
| Luella Brysk | ||
| Ellen Wilmot | ||
| Marie Delys | ||
| Clara Madison | ||
| 1916 | N/A | |
| Beverly Hope | ||
| Martha Gorham | ||
| Elionor Rossitor | ||
| Bessie Gale | ||
| Carner | ||
| Beatrice Farley | ||
| Hazel Rogers | ||
| 1915 | Nancy Preston | |
| Grand Duchess Feodora | ||
| Grace Hunt | ||
| 1914 | Ethel Crandall | |
| Dorothy | ||
| Dorothy West | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dorothy | ||
| The Mountie's Wife | ||
| N/A | ||
| Renee | ||
| Mary Rohan | ||
| Wallace's Mistress | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jack's Wife | ||
| The Poor Man's Wife | ||
| Queen of the Gypsies | ||
| Angela Graham | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dorothy | ||
| Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart | ||
| The Government Detective | ||
| Dorothy | ||
| Sue Jarvis | ||
| Mrs. Randall | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ethel | ||
| The Prospector's Wife | ||
| Countess Betty Ardmore | ||
| The Woodsman's Sweetheart | ||
| 1913 | N/A | |
| Dot | ||
| Dot | ||
| Dorothy | ||
| Dot - Wally's Sweetheart | ||
| Dorothy | ||
| Mrs. Burns | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter | ||
| 1912 | Jessie Carter | |
| Veda Mead | ||
| Clara Lyttell | ||
| 1910 | Flower Girl | |
| A Friend | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Screenplay | |
| 1951 | Screenplay | |
| 1949 | Writer | |
| 1948 | Screenplay | |
| 1947 | Story | |
| 1941 | Screenplay | |
| 1940 | Writer | |
| Screenplay | ||
| Screenplay | ||
| Screenplay | ||
| Story | ||
| 1938 | Screenplay | |
| 1935 | Screenplay | |
| Story | ||
| 1934 | Writer | |
| 1932 | Story | |
| 1925 | Writer | |
| 1923 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1935 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1934 | Producer | |
| 1925 | Producer | |
| 1923 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1933 | Director | |
| 1929 | Director | |
| 1925 | Director | |
| 1923 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
