Dorothy Davenport
Known for Acting · 68 credits
- Born
- 1895-03-13
- Died
- 1977-10-12
- Place of birth
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Also known as
- Fannie Dorothy Davenport · Dorothy Reid · Dot Reid · Mrs. Wallace Reid
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.
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Known For
Movies (68)
Black Friday
1916
as Elionor Rossitor
The Unknown
1915
as Nancy Preston
The Revelation
1913
as Mrs. Burns
Human Wreckage
1923
as Ethel MacFarland
Broken Laws
1924
as Joan Allen
Treason
1917
as Luella Brysk
The Wheel of Life
1914
as The Prospector's Wife
A Gold Necklace
1910
as A Friend
The Quack
1914
as Mary Rohan
The Oath and the Man
1910
as Aristocrat
The Devil's Bondwoman
1916
as Beverly Hope
Women and Roses
1914
as Wallace's Mistress
The Siren
1914
as Renee
The Satin Woman
1927
as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
The Fighting Chance
1920
as Leila Mortimer
Hellship Bronson
1928
as Mrs. Bronson
Her Indian Hero
1912
as Veda Mead
The Voice of the Viola
1914
as Dorothy
The Test
1914
as The Poor Man's Wife
Love's Western Flight
1914
as Dorothy
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
as Countess Betty Ardmore
The Troublesome Baby
1910
as Girl at Station
The Test of Manhood
1914
as Ethel Crandall
A Flash in the Dark
1914
as Mrs. Randall
The Heart of the Hills
1914
as The Government Detective
The Road to Ruin
1934
as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
The Mountaineer
1914
as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Golden Supper
1910
as Flower Girl
The Skeleton
1914
as Jack's Wife
Barriers of Society
1916
as Martha Gorham
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
as Edith, Lady Effington
A Brave Little Woman
1912
as Clara Lyttell
A Hopi Legend
1913
The Red Kimona
1925
as Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
His Only Son
1912
as Jessie Carter
Pierre of the North
1913
as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
The Way of a Woman
1914
as Dorothy
His Extra Bit
1918
as The Wife
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915
as Grand Duchess Feodora
In Humble Guise
1915
as Grace Hunt
The Fruit of Evil
1914
The Greater Devotion
1914
Man Hunt
1933
as Mrs. Scott
A Gypsy Romance
1914
as Queen of the Gypsies
Doctor Neighbor
1916
as Hazel Rogers
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
as Dot
The Intruder
1914
as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
Passing of the Beast
1914
as The Mountie's Wife
Mothers of Men
1917
as Clara Madison
Fires of Conscience
1914
as Ethel
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The Den of Thieves
1914
as Dorothy
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
as Sue Jarvis
The Unattainable
1916
as Bessie Gale
The Girl and the Crisis
1917
as Ellen Wilmot
The Scarlet Crystal
1917
as Marie Delys
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
as Dorothy
Cupid Incognito
1914
as Angela Graham
The Man Within
1914
The Fires of Fate
1913
as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
A Wife on a Wager
1914
The Spark of Manhood
1913
as Maud Brewster
Retribution
1913
as Dorothy
The Wrong Heart
1916
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
as Dorothy West
The Way of the World
1916
as Beatrice Farley
A Yoke of Gold
1916
as Carner
The Lightning Bolt
1913
as Dot
About 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… With 68 credits spanning from 1910 to 1934, Dorothy Davenport has appeared in 68 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Black Friday (1916) — as Elionor Rossitor
- The Unknown (1915) — as Nancy Preston
- The Revelation (1913) — as Mrs. Burns
- Human Wreckage (1923) — as Ethel MacFarland
- Broken Laws (1924) — as Joan Allen
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