Dot Farley
Acting • Born 1881-02-05 – Died 1971-05-02
Biography
From Wikipedia Dot Farley (February 6, 1881 – May 2, 1971) was an American film actress. She appeared in 280 films between 1910 and 1950. Mainly known for her roles in short comedies, prolific with Mack Sennett in the silent days; she was later notable as the Mother-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in most of his series of short films at the RKO studios. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in South Pasadena, California.
Filmography
161 credits
Getting a Raise
Movie • 1930
Love Your Neighbor
Movie • 1930
Radio Kisses
Movie • 1930
Swell People
Movie • 1930
Young April
Movie • 1926
Maggie
Why Leave Home?
Movie • 1929
Susan
The Rural Third Degree
Movie • 1913
Si's Bride
The Head Man
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Denny
A Rented Riot
Movie • 1937
Errol's Mother-in-Law
Fixing a Stew
Movie • 1934
Leon's mother-in-law
Brooding Eyes
Movie • 1926
Marie De Costa
Rugged Water
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Fuller
Astray from the Steerage
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Gabble - the Rich Husband's Mother-in-Law
A Punch in the Nose
Movie • 1926
The Girl from Everywhere
Movie • 1927
Madame Zweibach
The Bicycle Flirt
Movie • 1928
The Wife
The Girl from Nowhere
Movie • 1928
Hubby's Weekend Trip
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Bill Blake
The Stranger from Arizona
Movie • 1938
Martha
Giggle Water
Movie • 1932
Florence's Mother
Peril of the Plains
Movie • 1912
Eliza - the Mother
Calling Hubby's Bluff
Movie • 1929
Widow Schultz
Love Past Thirty
Movie • 1934
Dressmaker
A College Chicken
Movie • 1910
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Movie • 1923
Rodney's Mother
Pitfalls of a Big City
Movie • 1923
Rodney's Mother
The Crossroads of New York
Movie • 1922
Landlady
Weak But Willing
Movie • 1929
Claire Finkel
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Movie • 1925
Townswoman
My Son
Movie • 1925
Hattie Smith
Harmony at Home
Movie • 1930
The Modiste
Murphy's I.O.U.
Movie • 1913
Wife
Good Housewrecking
Movie • 1933
False Pretenses
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Smythe
His Chum the Baron
Movie • 1913
Party Guest (uncredited)
Algy on the Force
Movie • 1913
Algy's Sweetheart
The Paperhangers' Revenge
Movie • 1918
The Cook
The Little Irish Girl
Movie • 1926
Gertie
Will Power
Movie • 1936
Mother
Traffic Tangle
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Ginsberg
Torchy's Kitty Coup
Movie • 1933
Aunt Zenobia
Too Many Wives
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Potts
Wrong Direction
Movie • 1934
Edgar's Mother-in-Law
The Signal Tower
Movie • 1924
Cousin Gertie
He Trumped Her Ace
Movie • 1930
Dot
A Woman of the World
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Bierbauer
Wine
Movie • 1913
The Woman
Fatty Joins the Force
Movie • 1913
Fatty's Sweetheart
Some Nerve
Movie • 1913
The Wife
Slander House
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Willis
Road to Paradise
Movie • 1930
Lola
The Overland Stage
Movie • 1927
Aunt Viney
The Code of the Scarlet
Movie • 1928
Widow Malone
Disappearing Enemies
Movie • 1931
Aunt Molly
A Fishy Affair
Movie • 1913
Neighbor
On His Wedding Day
Movie • 1913
The Bride
Bangville Police
Movie • 1913
Della's Mother
A Strong Revenge
Movie • 1913
Party Guest
The Garden of Eden
Movie • 1928
Monte Carlo Telephone Operator (uncredited)
While Paris Sleeps
Movie • 1932
Concierge
Bright Eyes
Movie • 1921
The Ambitious Mother
We Have Our Moments
Movie • 1937
Picking Peaches
Movie • 1924
The Customer
Wanted: Jane Turner
Movie • 1936
Landlady (uncredited)
They Won't Believe Me
Movie • 1947
Emma (uncredited)
The Women
Movie • 1939
Large Woman (uncredited)
Quiet Please!
Movie • 1933
Florence's Mother
Gasoloons
Movie • 1936
Florence's Mother
Curtain at Eight
Movie • 1933
Ella, hefty actress
One Cylinder Love
Movie • 1923
The Society Girl's Mother
The Red Kimona
Movie • 1925
The Inquisitive One
Big Money
Movie • 1930
The Gusher
Movie • 1913
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Law of the Tong
Movie • 1931
Madam Duval
Looney Lions and Monkey Business
Movie • 1919
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1924
Rodney's Mother
The Ranchman's Vengeance
Movie • 1911
Marie
It's Your Move
Movie • 1945
Florence's Mother
Lawless Valley
Movie • 1938
Anna
Celebrity
Movie • 1928
Mother
So Big
Movie • 1924
Widow Paarlenburg
Trapped in Tia Juana
Movie • 1932
Aunt Emma
Golf Widows
Movie • 1926
Love Is News
Movie • 1937
Woman Wanting Steve's Autograph (uncredited)
San Fernando Valley
Movie • 1944
Hattie O'Toole
His First Flame
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Benedict
Edgar Hamlet
Movie • 1935
Florence's Mother
Poisoned Ivory
Movie • 1934
Florence's Mother
In Love at 40
Movie • 1935
Florence's Mother
Variety Time
Movie • 1948
Edgar's Mother-in-Law (from "I'll Build It Myself") (archive footage)
An Elephant on His Hands
Movie • 1920
Lawyer Man
Movie • 1932
Client Paying $5,000 Fee (uncredited)
Diamond Jim
Movie • 1935
Matrimony Blues
Movie • 1926
Breaking the Ice
Movie • 1925
The Maid
Hold Your Temper
Movie • 1943
Edgar's Mother-in-Law
Down to Their Last Yacht
Movie • 1934
Passenger with Diamond Bracelets (uncredited)
A Deaf Burglar
Movie • 1913
A Neighbor
The Shamrock and the Rose
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Kelly
I Stole a Million
Movie • 1939
(uncredited)
The Road to Reno
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Brumleigh (as Dorothy Farley)
Little Accident
Movie • 1930
Mrs.Van Dine
Dummy Ache
Movie • 1936
Florence's Mother
Bridal Bail
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Jones - June's Mother
Love on a Ladder
Movie • 1934
Florence's Mother
Prunes and Politics
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Eloise Farley
Money Talks
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Chatterton
Obliging Young Lady
Movie • 1942
Bird Lover Who Did Paper on Shrikes (uncredited)
The Acquittal
Movie • 1923
Maid
The Enemy Sex
Movie • 1924
Ida Summers
Fish Feathers
Movie • 1932
Florence's Mother
Brick-a-Brac
Movie • 1935
Mother
The Poor Rich Cleaners
Movie • 1918
The Cook
Cooks and Crooks
Movie • 1942
Sally's Mother
Duck Soup
Movie • 1942
Florence's Mother
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Movie • 1926
The Countess Prascovia Avaloff
The King of Kings
Movie • 1927
Maidservant of Caiaphas
Breakfast at Sunrise
Movie • 1927
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
His Unlucky Night
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Trotter
$1,000 a Touchdown
Movie • 1939
Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
Hot Foot
Movie • 1943
Mother-in-Law
Memory Lane
Movie • 1926
Maid
Cat People
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Agnew (uncredited)
Feather Your Nest
Movie • 1944
Florence's Mother
Radio Rampage
Movie • 1944
Florence's Mother
A Life in the Balance
Movie • 1913
The Landlord's Wife
Lady Be Good
Movie • 1928
Texas West
The Family Upstairs
Movie • 1926
Mademoiselle Clarice
Even Unto Death
Movie • 1914
Dorothea Gordon
The Climbers
Movie • 1927
Juana
Boy of Mine
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Pettis
The Big Beef
Movie • 1945
Florence's Mother
Look Who's Laughing
Movie • 1941
Mary Blaize (uncredited)
Marquis Preferred
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Gruger
Tea- With a Kick!
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Juniper
The File on Thelma Jordon
Movie • 1949
Woman Prisoner (uncredited)
So This Is Paris
Movie • 1926
Madame Moreau (uncredited)
The Third Alarm
Movie • 1930
Woman Barber
Motor Maniacs
Movie • 1946
Florence's Mother
When Knights Were Cold
Movie • 1923
(uncredited)
Divorce Made Easy
Movie • 1929
Aunt Emma
Do or Diet
Movie • 1947
Florence's Mother
Sammy's Scandalous Scheme
Movie • 1915
Dottie
Counselitis
Movie • 1935
(uncredited)
What Fur
Movie • 1933
Florence's Mother
Vanity's Price
Movie • 1924
Katherine
Inferior Decorator
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Kennedy's Mother
Hail the Conquering Hero
Movie • 1944
Mamie's Mother (uncredited)
The Still Alarm
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Maloney
Motorboat Mamas
Movie • 1928
Automobile Passenger
Love and Pain
Movie • 1913
Ethel
Hubby’s Job
Movie • 1913
A Blasted Event
Movie • 1934
Mother
Nobody's Widow
Movie • 1927
Roxanna's Maid
Loops! My Dear
Movie • 1933
The Colonel's Wife - Mrs. Crumpit
The Mask of Lopez
Movie • 1924
Townswoman
What, No Cigarettes
Movie • 1945
Florence's Mother
The Fatal Mistake
Movie • 1924
All Aboard
Movie • 1927
Aunt Patsy
Listen Lester
Movie • 1924
Miss Pink
The Front Page
Movie • 1931
Madame (uncredited)