Dorothy Davenport
Acting • Born 1895-03-13 – Died 1977-10-12
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.
Filmography
68 credits
The Fighting Chance
Movie • 1920
Leila Mortimer
Pierre of the North
Movie • 1913
Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
His Only Son
Movie • 1912
Jessie Carter
The Heart of the Hills
Movie • 1914
The Government Detective
Fires of Conscience
Movie • 1914
Ethel
The Wheel of Life
Movie • 1914
The Prospector's Wife
The Greater Devotion
Movie • 1914
A Flash in the Dark
Movie • 1914
Mrs. Randall
Breed o' the Mountains
Movie • 1914
Sue Jarvis
The Test
Movie • 1914
The Poor Man's Wife
The Mountaineer
Movie • 1914
Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Way of a Woman
Movie • 1914
Dorothy
The Spider and Her Web
Movie • 1914
The Voice of the Viola
Movie • 1914
Dorothy
The Test of Manhood
Movie • 1914
Ethel Crandall
Cupid Incognito
Movie • 1914
Angela Graham
A Gypsy Romance
Movie • 1914
Queen of the Gypsies
The Skeleton
Movie • 1914
Jack's Wife
The Fruit of Evil
Movie • 1914
The Quack
Movie • 1914
Mary Rohan
Women and Roses
Movie • 1914
Wallace's Mistress
The Siren
Movie • 1914
Renee
The Man Within
Movie • 1914
Passing of the Beast
Movie • 1914
The Mountie's Wife
The Spark of Manhood
Movie • 1913
Maud Brewster
The Cracksman's Reformation
Movie • 1913
Dorothy
The Fires of Fate
Movie • 1913
Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
Retribution
Movie • 1913
Dorothy
A Hopi Legend
Movie • 1913
The Lightning Bolt
Movie • 1913
Dot
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Movie • 1913
Dot
The Intruder
Movie • 1914
The Woodsman's Sweetheart
The Countess Betty's Mine
Movie • 1914
Countess Betty Ardmore
Love's Western Flight
Movie • 1914
Dorothy
The Wrong Heart
Movie • 1916
'Cross the Mexican Line
Movie • 1914
Dorothy West
A Wife on a Wager
Movie • 1914
The Den of Thieves
Movie • 1914
Dorothy
The Squaw Man's Son
Movie • 1917
Edith, Lady Effington
His Extra Bit
Movie • 1918
The Wife
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Movie • 1915
Grand Duchess Feodora
The Revelation
Movie • 1913
Mrs. Burns
Hellship Bronson
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Bronson
In Humble Guise
Movie • 1915
Grace Hunt
The Red Kimona
Movie • 1925
Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
Mothers of Men
Movie • 1917
Clara Madison
A Brave Little Woman
Movie • 1912
Clara Lyttell
The Satin Woman
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
Man Hunt
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Scott
Her Indian Hero
Movie • 1912
Veda Mead
Human Wreckage
Movie • 1923
Ethel MacFarland
The Unattainable
Movie • 1916
Bessie Gale
Treason
Movie • 1917
Luella Brysk
The Girl and the Crisis
Movie • 1917
Ellen Wilmot
The Unknown
Movie • 1915
Nancy Preston
The Devil's Bondwoman
Movie • 1916
Beverly Hope
The Way of the World
Movie • 1916
Beatrice Farley
Black Friday
Movie • 1916
Elionor Rossitor
Barriers of Society
Movie • 1916
Martha Gorham
A Yoke of Gold
Movie • 1916
Carner
A Gold Necklace
Movie • 1910
A Friend
Doctor Neighbor
Movie • 1916
Hazel Rogers
The Golden Supper
Movie • 1910
Flower Girl
Broken Laws
Movie • 1924
Joan Allen
The Scarlet Crystal
Movie • 1917
Marie Delys
The Road to Ruin
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
The Oath and the Man
Movie • 1910
Aristocrat
The Troublesome Baby
Movie • 1910